What to Do Before the Well Runs Dry: Managing Scarce Skills

Today’s organizations face a rapidly changing business and labour environment. A particular concern is the difficulty experienced in recruiting and retaining the skills needed to compete in the global marketplace.

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Effectively managing the scarce skills problem depends on more than the best efforts of individual organizations. It also requires the integrated efforts of many stakeholder groups including the education system and government.

This study identified actions that were statistically significant predictors of recruitment and retention success.