Staff Retention

EDUCAUSE Library Items for Staff Retention

From Us vs. Them to We: Collaborating for Change

September 27, 2011

Key Takeaways It takes sustained focus, effort, and time to create the foundation of trust that underlies all viable collaborations . While IT collaborations usually encounte…

Attract, Retain, and Engage the Best: Building an Inclusive IT Culture through Professional Development

June 1, 2010

This ECAR research bulletin explores the process of building an appreciation for diversity into the fabric of an organization through a program that employs an innovative approach to professiona…

5 ways to drive your best workers out the door

August 22, 2008

Your top workers can almost always get another job, even in a shaky economy. "The best employees are being recruited at any given time. Managers need to make that assumption and create an en…

Management Techniques for Bringing Out the Best in Generation Y

October 26, 2007

They're your high-maintenance, entitled, technologically sophisticated and fickle new talent pool. Generation Y, a.k.a. the Millennials, is also potentially the most high-performing generati…

Planning for the Brain Drain

November 2, 2006

© 2006 Cynthia Golden EDUCAUSE Review, vol. 41, no. 6 (November/December 2006): 84 Planning for the Brain Drain Cynthia Golden Cynthia Golden is Vice President of EDUCAUSE,…

Managing Your IT Portfolio Risk: The Trailing Edge You Don’t Want to Admit To

August 16, 2005

The evaluation and remediation of the risks posed by trailing-edge or obsolete systems is a critical component of an enterprise risk management (ERM) strategy—the process of planning, organizin…

Recruiting and Retaining Information Technology Staff in Higher Education

January 1, 2000

EDUCAUSE Executive Briefing #1. This briefing was developed in cooperation with CUPA-HR and NACUBO. The briefing covers IT staff retention, recruitment, retraining, and restructuring/reorganizing…

The Cost of IT Staff Turnover: A Quantitative Approach

February 19, 2002

Hiring and retaining IT workers is a chronic challenge. When knowledge workers leave and must be replaced, institutions incur significant costs. Often, replacement costs far outstrip the addition…

Avoiding the Digital Divide for Smaller Institutions of Higher Education: Recommendations to the President's Information Technology Advisory Committee

January 1, 2000

This report is the product of a meeting convened by EDUCAUSE and the National Science Foundation (NSF) to discuss the digital divide as it pertains to advanced networks at smaller institutions. Par…

The Media Production Model: An Alternative Approach to Intellectual Property Rights in Distributed Education.

January 1, 2001

This article discusses a team-based approach to intellectual prpoperty ownership and compensation which offers a model for slowing the departure of creative technical professionals from campuses, e…