How to Recruit, Incentivize and Retain Millennials
- Dheeraj Sharma - Director, Indian Institute of Management Rohtak
‘What do millennials want?’ is a big question facing organization these days. HR managers are looking for recruitment strategies that can help achieve the optimal person–organization fit. Several organizations have already started implementing innovative practices to attract and retain millennials. They are unique in their characteristics and consumption pattern. Millennials are known to have forced several organization to adapt the workplace and work environment. Their varied ways of life are also reflected in their work settings. Millennials enter the workforce with unique needs, characteristics, expectations and personalities. These differences pave the way for new challenges that contemporary organizations encounter on a regular basis.
This book demystifies the problems faced by HR managers and recruiters when hiring and working with millennials. It offers descriptive and prescriptive insights on leveraging the millennial talent.
‘Millennials are a unique generation from the workforce management standpoint. The book provides an in-depth understanding into management aspects of the millennial workforce. A must-read for all in the corporate world’.
The book How to Recruit, Incentivize and Retain Millennials by Professor Dheeraj Sharma provides excellent approaches to manage and leverage millennial workforce for superior performance outcomes. This highly informative book provides exemplary guidelines on attracting, developing and retaining the most valuable assets, thereby paving the path for organizational growth. Unarguably, it will serve as a knowledge pool for the society as a whole.
Professor Dheeraj Sharma’s original research on the best experiences of the work environment with respect to recruiting and managing millennials is indeed laudable. Undoubtedly, the book will help bridge future generation gaps and provide a transformatory edge to both the ‘millennials’ and the organizations they work for.
This book would prove to be a boon for understanding millennials and what makes them so different in their approach to lifestyles—personal and particularly in the work ethos. Understanding them has never been easy and this book aims to address some of those issues.
A book every HR professional should read and try to apply while dealing with the next generation. Well explained, well written and correctly linked to current and future challenges.
A very informative read on a very pertinent topic. While millennials as a consumer group have been studied and written about ad nauseam, this is the first time millennials as employees have been studied by a renowned academician and researcher! A must-read for the managers of today!
“The language is simple and the book is packed with information that can be easily and immediately applied… [It] is a sound and research-based book filled with a lot of practical advice.”
