Retention Programs

Experiencing a stable workforce as a contradiction in terms, Gaffney Corporate Strategies has developed a comprehensive retention model to assist organizations in retaining their most valuable assets.

Companies are finding it more challenging than ever to identify, recruit, hire, train and retain qualified and productive employees. Employees choose to leave a company that is unappreciative than to remain in an undesirable setting. The unprecedented churning experienced in today's marketplace has created a different approach to perceptions about the workplace, and the way people do the work that they do. With less people in the workforce, and with many of the employed unqualified to do the work, labor shortages have created employee competition battle lines throughout corporate America. As the bottom line suffers exorbitant costs of turnover, companies are forced to examine or reexamine why employees leave, and why they stay.

The review of the literature on turnover and retention suggests the need for a comprehensive and systemic approach to retaining employees and preventing turnover. There is no single approach to retaining employees and preventing turnover. Since there are numerous variables that an organization cannot control, it is critical that a company addresses what it can control for retention of its valued employees.

The strategic retention model and Role Criticality Process GCS has developed is a comprehensive process that aligns appropriate employee wants and needs with corporate systems, selection processes, structure and strategies. A methodology most appropriate for the individual organization based on industry realities, corporate culture, organizational structure, recruitment, hiring and transfer strategies, orientation programs, employee communications and management style all factor into the best approach for any one company.