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Recent Gallup Poll Spotlights Job Movement Forcing CEOs to Scramble to Keep Key People

July 9, 2015  |   tagMarketplace Matters

According to a recent Gallup survey poll, the percentage of Americans who think this is a good time to find a quality job reached its highest level in more than eight years. With the U.S. unemployment rate falling and expectations of available quality jobs increasing, many firms are scrambling to increase employee retention, with some joining a growing trend of using Marketplace Chaplains, America’s original and largest workplace chaplaincy organization.

David Weekley, Chairman of a large Texas-based home building company, David Weekley Homes, credits Marketplace Chaplains as a big part of the reason his company has been named as FORTUNE Magazine’s “100 Best Companies to Work For,” nine times (#14 in 2015).

“The chaplain program is a low-cost employee benefit that has garnered us more loyalty than our other ‘standard’ benefits and has resulted in lower turnover, improved morale, and a general sense of ‘caring’ on the company’s part about our employees, ” he said.

Among the results of the regular interactions employees have with their Marketplace Chaplain are the preventative, early course corrections as people face life’s inevitable challenges. Marketplace Chaplains Care Teams are available in these regular worksite visits, as well as on a scheduled or immediate response basis at or away from work, 24/7/365.

“We want to help and keep our employees and we feel that chaplains are the best way to do it,” said Roger Burdick, Owner and President of Driver’s Village in Cicero, NY.

The first reaction for some is to raise pay levels, which factors into the mix, but smart employers are utilizing other strategies to stop the churn of valued people leaving, it seems, over a few dollars.

Pay ranks lower than most people think on the list of reasons people come to and stay with a company. Studies have found that job satisfaction, work-life balance, feeling valued and cared for by their company, and the relationship of the employee with their direct supervisor are higher on the scale of reasons that valued employees are successfully recruited and retained.

Many companies are investing in the whole-person wellness of their people. Gallup1 points out that the five well-being elements of purpose, social, financial, community, and physical are all important aspects in the “thriving” well-being of managers and employees. It is this thriving well-being that is a great determiner of managers’ and employees’ engagement in their work, the goals, and the mission of the company.

According to Gallup: “a comprehensive well-being strategy that encompasses all five elements of well-being — not just physical health  — and that builds on the relationships among the five elements is crucial to improving managers’ and employees’ well-being.”

Hundreds of companies have found that providing a personalized and proactive Employee Care Service from Marketplace Chaplains is an important step in their intentional strategy to promote the wellness of their people and their company.

Marketplace Chaplains delivers care service to the employees and families of over 3,500 client company locations in 45 U.S. states, 6 countries, and 1 commonwealth.

For more information on this unique employee benefit which has been featured with Marketplace Chaplains on CNN, NBC Nightly News, and in the Washington Post, the New York Times and Bloomberg BusinessWeek, visit https://mchapusa.com.

About Marketplace Chaplains

To arrange an interview with a Marketplace Chaplain contact Art Stricklin, Vice President Public Relations, at artstricklin@mchapusa.com or call 1-800-775-7657.

Reference:

  1. http://www.gallup.com/businessjournal/182861/managers-high-twice-likely-engaged.aspx
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