Title :
An engineering management perspective on recruiting and retaining quality staff
Author_Institution :
Southwest Res. Inst., San Antonio, TX, USA
Abstract :
Annual turnover in technology-based employment fields remains below the US average, but the impacts of employee initiated turnover can unfortunately significantly affect any organization with knowledge workers as its key asset. This will provide an overview of issues pertinent to staff recruiting and retention in the engineering and computer science disciplines. The uniqueness of the engineering and computer science workforce in these areas will be briefly discussed. Recent statistics and trends in recruiting and retention will also be presented as further background information. Changes to traditional recruiting approaches will be presented. Suggestions on improving staff satisfaction (and, consequently, retention) will be presented in the management, project, technology, and career areas.
Keywords :
employee welfare; employment; organisational aspects; personnel; recruitment; societies; computer science workforce; employee turnover; engineering management; engineering workforce; knowledge workers; staff recruitment; staff retention; staff satisfaction; technology-based emplioyment; Computer science; Employment; Engineering management; Humans; Internet; Recruitment; Research and development management; Security; Statistics; Technology management;
Conference_Titel :
Engineering Management Conference, 2006 IEEE/UT
Conference_Location :
Austin, TX
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-0575-6
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-0576-3
DOI :
10.1109/UTEMC.2006.5236172