Book Review: The stay interview: A manager's guide to keeping the best and brightest.

Seeing as the Stay Interview technique depends on a high level of trust between the manager and employee, managers are wise to consider how a question could be viewed by a relatively new employee. Finnegan, however, suggests starting the entire process by "making a list of all the employees on your team" (p. 12) and notes briefly the disappointment that employees may develop upon finding out that others were invited for a Stay Interview but they were not (p. 47). Clearly, open, honest, and timely communication between an employee and their immediate supervisor delivers myriad benefits, including perhaps the ultimate payoff of reducing voluntary employee turnover. The factors and considerations at play in an employee's choice of timing retirement are likely quite different than, say, an early-career employee contemplating leaving the agency for a new professional opportunity. [Extracted from the article]