Volume : IV, Issue : II, February - 2014

Reviewing Corporate Recruitment, Retention and Training Strategies

Prof. Jasbir Kaur Sodi

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Organizational success largely depends upon having the right people, with right attitude and with the potential which are maintained throughout. There is a need for adoption of more sophisticated approach on part of the employers in linking its strategic recruitment, training and retention processes with its core business strategies. Attracting. Recruiting and Retaining the desired employee has been the greatest challenge in the present talent management scenario. Employers are faced with lots of difficulties in recruitment, training and retention practices of human resource. Ineffective recruitment practices increases the cost when the employee with the required skills and attitude are not appointed and preferences are given to the qualifications then the potential. Many a times absence of important skills results into increased employee dissatisfaction and hence turnover. Increased employee turnover leads to increased cost of recruitment and training at the same level of different employees which unnecessary increases the cost. Even if the right candidates are recruited, achieving success in maintaining or retaining the employees in the organizational culture is the biggest challenge. Though training and development programmes are well developed by the organization, more often they fail to produce the expected return on investment or the desired impact measurement on the employee productivity is just not carried out. Organizations fail to have effective training evaluation methodologies to judge the training impact on the performance of employee and also on achieving organizational objectives. This paper focuses on the review of strategic recruitment, retention and training process of the organization and the challenges faced by the employers in recruiting, training and retaining the most desired employees of the organization. The paper also throws light on some best practices adopted by the companies to make these processes more result oriented in achieving the objectives.

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Prof. Jasbir Kaur Sodi Reviewing Corporate Recruitment, Retention and Training Strategies Indian Journal of Applied Research, Vol.IV, Issue. II

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