Staff Recruitment and Retention: A Good Practice Guide

Staff Recruitment and Retention: A Good Practice Guide

Helen Green

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This Guide aims to help housing organisations maximise their performance by attracting, and improving the retention of, well-qualified and motivated staff. A great deal of work is taking place in this area, and the Guide highlights the range of innovative and imaginative approaches that are emerging.

Aimed at senior and middle managers, committee and board members, HR departments and training organisations, the Guide will be of interest to everyone working in social housing and encourages readers to reconsider their current practices and think creatively to find workable solutions.

A joint publication with the Housing Corporation.

ISBN: 1-903208-60-2   Order no: 351   Published: July 2004

Contents

Foreword from Will Hutton, Chief Executive, The Work Foundation

  1. Introduction
  2. Background
  3. Organisational culture and management style
  4. A strategic approach to recruitment and retention
  5. Raising the profile
  6. Defining the role and candidate skills
  7. Recruitment tools
  8. Application process and selection tools
  9. 'Growing your own' trainee schemes
  10. Integration into the organisation
  11. Personal development and career structure
  12. Pay, reward and recognition
  13. Working conditions and environment
  14. Future directions
  • Appendix 1 - Summary of relevant current and forthcoming legislation
  • Appendix 2 - References and sources of further information

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