The COI path to HR success
Purpose – Aims to dscribe the key factors – attracting the right people, developing them and retaining them – which have helped the UK Central Office of Information (COI) to win a place in the Sunday Times 100 Best Companies to Work For list three years running and to secure Investors in People status for the sixth time. Design/methodology/approach – Gives the inside story, by the COI human‐resources director, of recruitment, training and employee retention in the organization. Findings – Stresses the importance of: working closely with the organization's public relations department; providing secondments, specialist training and personal‐development programs; and keeping people fresh and interested. Practical implications – Argues that low employee turnover is both a blessing and a curse: few people choose to leave the COI, but this has a drastic effect on promotion opportunities, which eventually affect retention. Originality/value – Takes a very practical approach to strategic human resource management.
Year of publication: |
2005
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Authors: | Lockhead, Emma |
Published in: |
Human Resource Management International Digest. - Emerald Group Publishing Limited, ISSN 1758-7166, ZDB-ID 2082534-1. - Vol. 13.2005, 7, p. 9-10
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Publisher: |
Emerald Group Publishing Limited |
Subject: | Recruitment | Employee development | Retention | Human resource management | Public relations |
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