How to Keep an Ideal Employee at Work

One of the primary challenges and measures for the health and success of an organization is certainly employee retention. For every organization, key employee retention is essential not only because it ensures customer satisfaction, satisfied coworkers, effective long-term planning and deeply imbedded organizational knowledge and learning, but also because of costly and disruptive turnover.

The first step in increasing employee retention is to understand the importance of it. It’s part of the business that people would like to change job, and there is nothing you can do much to change that. But, if you’re losing key staff members, the first thing that must be done is an exit interview. It will provide useful information that will help you to retain other employees that might also be considering leaving the company.

There are many tips and tools that can be used in order to keep an ideal employee at work:

• Many management thinkers agree that a satisfied employee knows clearly what is expected from him every day at work. If an employee is uncertain about the expectation from him, he will feel insecure or maybe he will feel unsuccessful. That doesn’t mean that employee would prefer unchanging job tasks, but he should be provided with a framework within he can perform the actions that are expecting from him.

• The supervisor has a critical role to play in retention because people leave managers and supervisors more often than they leave companies. Therefore, the quality of the supervision an employee receives is critical. Anything the supervisor does to make an employee feel unvalued will contribute to turnover. Managers must seem to support the needs of employees, while at the same time, they must be viewed as treating employees fairly.

• Communication and availability. Employees want face-to-face communication time with both their supervisors and executive management. This communication