Comments on: Is attrition a boon in disguise?

By: M Bajaj

M Bajaj — Tue, 24 Sep 2019 07:26:22 +0000

Most of the time , good people leave the organisation. It has been said time and again that people change because of the boss. Unfortunately the owners / HR Heads keep a blind eye and do not care to find out the real reasons as to why an employee is leaving.

By: Ehsan Reza

Ehsan Reza — Tue, 24 Sep 2019 07:24:21 +0000

In reply to Mrinal Krant.

Mrinal Krant this is a separate issue and no organisation would like to see that talent leaves and most of the companies have OD as one of the efficient team which lays down effective career planning and engagement …still these efforts may still go futile !!! It is like million of copies of “7 habits of effective people” being sold still not much people have changed hence these are labor intensive efforts sometimes but do agree we cannot remove our eye balls from the same thanks for your valuable insight

Regards Ehsan

By: Mrinal Krant

Mrinal Krant — Tue, 24 Sep 2019 07:21:48 +0000

In reply to Ehsan Reza. Ehsan Reza value your vast experience , true , finding the reasons for attrition is an after thought. What may work in favor of organisations is to identify, who you want not to quit and go and being aware of circumstances that may trigger attrition that damages a company. Moreover as you said, reasons for attrition are as many as the number of people. Some termination ; voluntary or forced are good. Keeps organization agile and thinking. Don't allow people to fall prey to the Peter Principle or simply put be counted among office furniture.

By: Ehsan Reza

Ehsan Reza — Tue, 24 Sep 2019 07:16:52 +0000

Reflection on the view points looks like a valuable insight at the same time…the results are different when rubber meets the road we have a different picture ! I don’t want to sound as some one does not value human as the important asset the organisation posses and the differentiation it makes in today’s world where product differentiation is wafer thin at the same it has been observed and as practising leader for 25 years with reasonable success (still a learner and with lot humility)that inspite of your best of your effort the attrition happens and to me it looks natural…HR practitioner generally finds difficult to accept but many time on the ground zero the story is different!!! Very personal opinion inlay be wrong

By: Mrinal Krant

Mrinal Krant — Tue, 24 Sep 2019 07:15:20 +0000

That sounds like Jack Welch’s bottom 10% way of looking at attrition and in that case it is firing not attrition. Would it not be more valuable to find where talent is squeezed, growth stunted, in wrong roles, with wrong leaders? Make attrition predictably worrisome than a fill it, refill it and shut it chore! Attrition is not mathematics.

By: Rajiv Gusain

Rajiv Gusain — Mon, 23 Sep 2019 11:52:26 +0000

My observation :
1. Good attrition is the best way for existing employee to learn new process or ways .
2. Employees learns how to work in team .
3. I have seen company where their is very low attrition groupism is very high they eventually never grow .
4. Low attrition organisation / team are generally stereotype.
5. Low attrition organization slow become house of bureaucracts

By: Dipesh Chandra

Dipesh Chandra — Mon, 23 Sep 2019 11:48:02 +0000

Ya.. the only place where attrition is running close to 0 is probably in Japanese companies.
In a company of 10,000 maybe 1-2 employees quit in a year. For Indian context, targeting such a low attrition rate is misleading. So you get to strive for a ‘healthy minimum ‘ which maximises organisational as well as people long term well-being. A wise man that I have the privilege to work with once said – “attrition is an onion that can be sliced in many ways”. Eager to hear others to share their cuts!