Usability Views Article Details  home | timeline | recent | popular | e-reports | userati | books | about  Manpower Retention in IT: An Oxymoron? (25 Apr 2005) The basic simple truth is every human being needs to be valued. Whether an employee or a friend or a family member — when a contribution is made — recognition is what one seeks. And fairness is what one demands. Thus, when a member of the corporate family is putting in nine hours a day — he has some expectation that supersedes the salary cheque at the end of the month. He wants to belong — and to know that he matters and actually makes a difference. He needs that umbilical cord of connection to the organization — to communicate and be communicated with — and to know that his ideas thoughts and creativity do matter. Of course the financial component too plays a major part because at the end of the day if that's not there then has he really been recognized for his worth? Article URL: http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v6i14_tadwalkar.html Read 352 more articles from Ubiquity sorted by date, popularity, or title. Next Article: More Bloglines Analysis: Wendy Johnson is the knitters knitter     This site is a labour of love built by Chris McEvoy