Invite colleagues
There is always a high turn over of staff in China where a younger generation is often highly transient and looking for the next role that pays just a few extra RMB.. or so I thought. This was clearly my view before I started to dig around and explore this stereotype more further. After hearing from my team at SinoTech Group about the core reasons for choosing to stay or leave a company I was quite dubious that I maybe hearing the answer I wanted to hear and not the candid ones I needed as a manager looking to improve hiring and retention policy. So after asking my team I posed the same question online where I got 97 responses and to my surprise it reflected the SinoTech Group responses.
The question I posed to my team was: What is the key reason you would change jobs?
I asked them to select from 5 options; more money, better boss, change industry, greater personal challenge or change location. In the office, the results suggested the SinoTech team was there because of the personal challenge the job provided. This was what I wanted to hear but I needed to validate this result and setup another poll that had anonymous responses and where no one needed to give me a response I wanted.
The poll conducted online had 97 responses.
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This non scientific poll clearly supported my team and I guess we need to consider the impact of these results in the way we position our roles for recruiting and in the ways we do performance reviews.
A couple more views of the responses as below. They show the results by gender, role, function and industry type.
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Written on Sunday, 29 August 2010 12:02 by Matt McDougall