> -----Original Message----- > From: Kelman, Tom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, August 13, 2007 9:26 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Age Poll Results: 49.47 > > There is a risk of training new talent. <Snipped> > However, we had put a lot of financial and time resources into training > this guy and he up and quit. It soured management on internal transfers > and training for a while.
IMHO there is greater long-term risk in NOT training new talent. After a decade or more of this, there isn't any talent left, because you didn't have anyone training the new folk entering the job market in our skills. This is, of course, a classic case of short-term thinking, as is the old-fashioned thinking that technical training is a one-time event and not a continuous need for *all* employees, not just we techies. In your cited case, did the salary promised after training reflect the market for that level of training, or just a bump of the internal salary structure? Maybe it was management's failure to actively monitor competitive salaries that was the problem. Just my USD$0.02 worth. Peter This message and any attachments are intended only for the use of the addressee and may contain information that is privileged and confidential. If the reader of the message is not the intended recipient or an authorized representative of the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by e-mail and delete the message and any attachments from your system. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
