Can transparent HR practices reduce attrition?

Joydeep I agree with your statement.

When I know who I am what is my capability, ability, my design, my belief, desire, needs, want, fantasy, greed, fear, concern, cunningness selfishness nobleness my energy level, how to exercise it, etc. for myself and others around me.

Everyone is enigmatic it’s the capability of a HR professional to decipher the behaviour and find the suitability, well nothing is forever, maintaining transparency is another ploy of fooling around.

As long as things are in agreement, experience is smooth, Does attrition depend on functioning of HR ? Not always.

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adopting appraisal system, motivating the employees and rewarding the employees with benefits and perks besides providing them higher flexibility to perform their tasks with aligned with organisational goals.

transparency

Surely...Yes...

All Major corporate politics are having a single objective " How I can make My Line Bigger?" And all these political games can be a reason for higher attrition in some of the company. So if one has transparent HR Culture in all the terms and people what will not work for recognition, growth, promotion, increment it will help in great way to reduce politics, bossism and increase professionalism, open culture, cooperation which will create a job environment which every employee loves and like to work with such company.

Transparency among employees and HR is always necessary. In the lack of transparency, miscommunication or no communication occurs which leads to problems. Employees and HR should be transparent enough to discuss the problems with each other. Then only these problems will go...

To some extent as per my experience as there are many other factors for attrition, which include personal as well as work related ... !

I had wanted to change the workplace mostly due to lack of motivation and favorable work conditions and recognition from seniors and peers ... Lack transparency also put me off;

Definately Yes,

Transparency will surely help in reducing attrition in an organization. As because of transparency in HR, the employess feel that they are valued and they will be reluctant in switching jobs...

Truth is the base. Transparency in the Sense, If Truth + Effective and Efficient Communication is used by HR Managers/Practitioners than obviously Attritions will be inversely affected and create a sense of belongingness in employees.

Yes it can , employees who are under performer can be told to improve their performance. If chances are given, one can improve their performance. With such kind of HR practices / transparency I think the attrition rate will reduce to a greater extend.

Transparency shall surely minimize the attrition rate.

However we should do what we say. Every good HR system has transparency in present days but do we practice the same? Rules are broken more often. Transparency should be coupled with periodic and planned feed back sessions, open house and action plans to meet the basic and general needs as emerge out during such sessions.

Absolutely. The transperancy of HR practises has been the cause of all the flux in headcount. However, this works for individuals who are looking to make a career with, instead of individuals chasing short term gains.

Transparency is HR practices is not the only solution for reducing attrition. The HR practices cannot be very transparent to its employees at all the times. When it comes to payroll, the salary, incentives and appraisals given to employees differ from individual to individual. If HR is transparent, then it will create lot of discretion among its employees, where in it will vitiate the whole working environment, thereby increasing the rate of attrition.

A Diplomatic and promising HR practise would have a good relationship with its employees, which would motivate the employees to work in an organization in a much committed way. I hope, the rate of attrition could be reduced in this manner.

Dear Gireesh,

Manager is a employee. Yes I appriciate,some times it happens. Most of the time employees are looking change due to their expectation & necessity. In this case a manager can only pass the appraisal. But he also has some limitation.

So it is not correct to bluff the managers always.

Sanjit

Yes. Transpararent HR policies will defenitely help in reducing attrition.

Definitely transparent policies by the HR department of a company will certainly play a big role in reducing the attrition rate as employees will be clear of all the policies with respect to compensation,performance improvement incentives etc.

And that will make employees crystal clear of what they should do and how they can move up the ladder in a company.

transparency in HR practices followed in any given industry will help addressing the attrition issue. but certainly only to an extent. human behaviour, cultural impacts, and other subjective factors do affect attrition which cannot be dealt completely by HR personnels. In that sense, opposers do have a point but then again, "nothing is better than nonsensense".

transparency in practices, fast redressal machineries and 360 degree appraisals system are some machineries that can be used to safe guard the betterment of both parties.

making employees perceive equality and treated fairly can bring a great difference. even to the whole orgnl climate itself

cheers guys

Yes, I believe that transparency will reduce attrition. Transparency shows that you are fair to everyone, no injustice is being done, and when people feel that they are treated equally, no injustice is done to them then they wont leave the organisation. This will reduce the attrition rate to a great extent.

yes transparency is forever factor to reduce many complication in any organization,,,, so it isapplicable to HR Practices also as HR culture is the first expression of any organization...

Transparency is very much needed not only to reduce attrition but also to have a strong positive organizational culture, Forget about attrition, a transparent HR practice makes a strong employer brand value among the employee existing and prospective.

Dear Sameer, You are taking the debate to wrong direction, It is not about bringing the attrition rate to zero. You cannot say that transparent HR practices wont help. you can focus on people above the age of 35 who are almost settled and won't look forward to job hopping as frequently as youngsters. If they are satisfied with the company and their HR policies they will definitely stay back. Now a days women employees are also very large, even they can be targeted to reduce the attrition rate.

I feel that transparency will definitely help. Companies should follow a transparent system for appraisal, internal recruitment and they should also give an appropriate career growth. There a good example set by Knoah Solutions where they say that transparency in HR practices has helped the company grow which in turn benefited the employees and they saw a decrease in the attrition rate.