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Big Think has begun a new series titled Inside Employees' Minds: Navigating the New Rules of Engagement.  The series is a response to new data that suggests employees are now more interested, and more willing, to look for a chance to leave their company for a better job.  If this is a real problem, as the surveys suggest, then it means that managers and executives must reconsider how they are working to keep their employees happy. 

Roger Martin, dean of the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto, argues that the workers of the 21st century--especially Millenials--need to have a stronger sense of purpose in their work than simply "the singular goal of maximizing the value for faceless, nameless people."  And if companies want to get anything out of this workforce, and to not be stuck training new employees over and over again, they will need to comply.

Read more about the Big Think series here.


Posted 09-19-2011 9:13 PM by Graham Griffith
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