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Why Employees Stay

Are your employees staying because of their managers? Popular thought indicates that people leave because of their managers, so is the opposite also true? Added to that is the view that it is always the good people who leave. Fortunately, that is not a view, not a fact! Great people stay. The challenge is to understand both why people stay and why they leave. As in sales, management ask sales people to find out why they lost a deal. It is even more important to find out why a deal was won. At Accsys, we realised years ago that we were finding out what individual’s issues were after they had resigned and moved on mentally. We designed a system that allows us to understand our employees’ expectations on a regular basis, not just at increase time, as well as share our expectations with them. Nothing works all the time, but it has given us much more insight and created a positive manager/employee relationship model. So why do people stay? Today, many of us have good social me