4Employee Relations and RetentionHow Do I Keep Good Employees and Maintain Working Relationships at All Levels?

YOU HAVE MADE THE EFFORT to find and hire the best candidates. You have oriented them to your company culture and spent time and resources training and developing them. Now you want to keep them—keep them working for your company and not the competition, and keep them content, motivated, and focused on the business.

When employees are unhappy in the workplace, when morale and productivity lag and turnover is high, the root problem is usually not compensation. Generally, these difficulties will be people-driven, stemming from poor communication, a perceived lack of appreciation and recognition, lack of clear paths for career growth, ...

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