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Managing retention: Creating a retention strategy

This guide explores how employers can create an effective retention strategy, including understanding why employees leave, measuring turnover and building a business case for retention. It helps HR develop targeted approaches to improve retention and reduce workforce attrition.

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By Rachel Suff, CIPD Senior Employee Relations Advisor

In our series of guides on managing retention, we identify the range of initiatives that can be developed to address staff retention problems.

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  • What is retention?
  • Quantitative research: Measuring labour turnover
  • Qualitative research: Investigating the reasons for staff departures
    • The business case for managing retention
    • The cost of labour turnover
  • Developing a retention strategy

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Enhanced by creating five separate guides on managing retention, to help you find the guidance you need. This initial guide focuses on the steps that employers can take to establish a staff retention strategy and the business case for doing so.

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