Book-in-quotes series # 1

Attracting and Retaining Talent

Becoming an Employer of Choice

AuthorDr Tim Baker

“Businesses that don’t embrace and promote these new values are likely to become less and less appealing places to work for good employees who value

this very way of thinking.”

“Organizations that will thrive in this new reality are those that are filled

with employees who have the option to leave, but choose to stay because of

the work.”

“I don’t know about you, but I don’t think of myself as a ‘human resource’

or ‘human capital’; I am a human being!”

“The individual/organization interface can be likened to the ‘yin and yang’

relationship. In a yin/yang relationship, the halves need each other to create a

unified whole.”

“The adaptable employee is a product of and catalyst for the New Age

economy.”

“Being clear about who your customer is, and spending time providing a value-added service is

a much less energy draining and more personally affirming use of an employee’s time than wallowing in the internal ambiguity of a

dying bureaucracy.”

“The modern employee, embracing a new mindset about their work

performance, should acknowledge that who they are is not where they work,

but what they do.”

“People are by nature tribal; that is, they naturally build alliances and

associations with others.”

“Heightened expectations of work and the changing nature of the role work plays in people’s lives creates a more

significant connection between human spirit and work.”

“Today, employees do not only expect to work for decades for the same company, they do not want to.”

“A company’s perspective on HRD can explain its beliefs about human

nature.”

“How can managers constrain employees’ independent judgment and, at the same time, encourage

initiative?”

“The traditional top-down approach to managing change that avoids the changing psychological contract is likely to continue to be flawed in

bringing about transformation in the workplace.”

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