Staffing System Management:
Question 1: What is the difference between a centralized staffing function and a decentralized staffing function?
Question 2: Why would an organization want to have a centralized staffing function, as opposed to letting each manager be totally responsible for all staffing activities in his or her department?
-This is a classical question that has been asked and acted upon for years.
Question 3: Ask any HR professional that has been around for many years and they will say they've lived through it all. I don't think we'll reach consensus on this one. But, it'll be an interesting discussion
Retention Strategies:
Question 4: What are some of the main causes of voluntary turnover? If a person says to you - "It's easy to reduce turnover, just pay people more money" how would you respond?
And, part of that question should also include,
Question 5: What can the organization do to reduce involuntary turnover? That is a more complex question because it assumes that the organization has some control over lay offs and over employees who are poor performers. When it comes to voluntary turnover we have to get past offering office pizza on Friday and gym memberships for everyone as the answer to the problem.