New Love 'em or Lose' em Offers the Ultimate Survival Guide for Today's Talent Wars
The ultimate survival guide for managers fighting to overcome these new “make or break” challenges is the latest edition of the world’s bestselling book on employee retention, LOVE ’EM OR LOSE ’EM: GETTING GOOD PEOPLE TO STAY by Beverly Kaye and Sharon Jordan-Evans (Berrett-Koehler). Previous editions have sold more than 350,000 copies worldwide in 17 languages.
Scranton, PA (PRWEB) April 18, 2005 -- Fifty-five percent of American workers
are not engaged and eight out of 10 plan to jump ship as soon as the economy
gets better. Nearly one-half of the workforce will be eligible to retire in the
next decade – and there will be a significant shortage of workers to replace
them.
The skills of incoming workers are inadequate. The U.S. Department of
Education predicts that 60 percent of jobs in the 21st Century will require
skills that only 20 percent of workers have.
Every employee who walks
out the door is costing their organization from one to two times their salary in
replacement costs.
There will be an all-out war as organizations fight to
keep their talent. Competition will be fierce and every manager will have to
fight to keep top performers. Organizations that are not prepared will have a
tough time competing for the talent they need to survive.
The ultimate
survival guide for managers fighting to overcome these new “make or break”
challenges is the latest edition of the world’s bestselling book on employee
retention, LOVE ’EM OR LOSE ’EM: GETTING GOOD PEOPLE TO STAY by Beverly Kaye and
Sharon Jordan-Evans (Berrett-Koehler). Previous editions have sold more than
350,000 copies worldwide in 17 languages.
This edition has been updated
throughout with new research, facts, tips, and corporate tales drawn from dozens
of organizations. A new “Troubleshooting Guide” is included, focusing on today’s
hottest engagement and retention issues and strategies, all designed to help
organizations win today’s talent war.
“When you have to compete for top
talent, steal them from your competitors, and pray they’ll stay with you, you’re
in a talent war,” say authors Beverly Kaye and Sharon Jordan-Evans. “This new
talent war promises to wreak havoc on organizations worldwide.”
And
retention is not the only critical issue in this talent war, the authors say.
“Survey after survey reports that people are unhappy at work and are not working
up to full potential. Engagement is as serious and as costly (11% of payroll) an
issue as retention.”
The new edition of LOVE ’EM OR LOSE ’EM builds on
the previous two editions, combining the experience and data collected from
several hundred thousand managers. Each of the book’s 26 chapters has been
revised with updated research and statistics and each offers proven new
strategies for managing engagement and retention issues.
Managers who
are already stretched and overwhelmed can turn for direct, helpful, and on
target advice to LOVE ’EM OR LOSE ’EM, offered in a practical and easy to access
format. The solutions are low cost or no cost, and have been used by some of the
world’s most prominent organizations.
LOVE’EM OR LOSE’EM is now available
from www.Amazon.com or may be
ordered from www.KeepEm.com.
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Beverly Kaye is Founder and CEO of
Career Systems International, one of the nation's leading talent management
solution providers. Her ground breaking career development, talent retention,
workplace satisfaction and mentoring programs have been implemented by top
organizations worldwide.
Sharon Jordan-Evans is president of the Jordan
Evans Group, an executive coaching, leadership development firm. She was a
senior vice president for the Change Management Practice at Drake Beam Morin,
one of the country’s largest transition firms.
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