The Right Shoes

Employee retention! Wow what a concept and something which Indian companies are emphasizing and something which needs to be well in place to differentiate a good organization from just another.

We the HR will take great pride and pains in implementing it but I guess the foremost place it should be implemented should be the HR department.

In a recent interaction with an OD intervention expert he showed a research compiled document conducted by them which revealed that the Career span of a HR at junior level is 1.5 years and lesser and about 3 years or lesser at the middle level and about 5 years in the senior level position in any organization.

Long gone are those days of one organization employees where a family would have worked but these numbers present a great threat

1) How is an employee going to trust a person who has recruited him in the organization and acts as a face of it and suddenly within a certain time the person he considered as the omnipresent face may not be seen as he is lost in search of better pastures.

2) A short career span may not indicate a negative factor because good things can happen in smaller times and we could argue even the President of America has a tenure of 4 years only

3)The problem which poses is “ if these people who may not have the adequate foundation at the lower levels ! can they cope up with the rigors of middle and top management” and this brings a thought “is it one of the root causes why there is animosity towards the HR dept in some of the Organizations”

Its time we have serious insight towards it

Cheers

Arvind !