Advice to heads of companies: Don't forget that good employees can always find another job!
Human resource executives and managers who have to deal
increasingly more often with cost-cutting decisions, especially as
far as personnel policies are concerned, have to always keep
retaining of top performers in mind, i.e. of those people who, if
not motivated and included in the company's strategy, can always
find a job elsewhere, even in a labour market that offers very few
jobs.
"The crisis should be for leaders as water for the fish. It is
exactly their role to lead the organisation through the crisis. It
should be them to focus on effective communication to people,
capitalise on the turmoil in the job market to upgrade their
organisation's level of talent and keep their most valuable
players," believes Martin Macha, the partner in charge of the
Health & Benefits division in Eastern Europe and the Middle
East of giant Mercer, one of the biggest HR consulting companies in
the world.
With 20 years' experience in research and consulting, Macha is the
special guest of the conference organised by ZF on March 25th, "The
DNA of people you need to keep in the company in order to weather
the crisis. How will companies start to create jobs?" where he will
talk about the challenges of managing human capital in 2010.