Exit Interview Process Analysis
WHAT IS AN EXIT INTERVIEW?
An exit interview is a survey conducted with an individual who is separating from an organization or relationship. Most commonly, this occurs between an employee and an organization, a student and an educational institution, or a member and an association. An exit interview is the most accurate instrument in assessing the issues that drive an individual to leave an organization. Few other tools illustrate why the individual is separating, what he or she valued while at the organization, and what aspects of the organization needs improvement in order to increase employee engagement, performance, and loyalty. An organization can use the information gained from an exit interview to assess what should be improved, changed, …show more content…
From the employer 's perspective, the primary aim of the exit interview is to learn reasons for the person 's departure, on the basis that criticism is a helpful driver for organizational improvement. Exit interviews (and prior) are also an opportunity for the organization to enable transfer of knowledge and experience from the departing employee to a successor or replacement, or even to brief a team on current projects, issues and contacts. Good exit interviews should also yield useful information about the employer organization, to assess and improve all aspects of the working environment, culture, processes and systems, management and development, etc.; in fact anything that determines the quality of the organization, both in terms of its relationship with its staff, customers, suppliers, third-parties and the general …show more content…
Exit interviews also provide employers an opportunity to control any negative publicity that might come from a discontented employee, pinpoint specific areas causing employee dissatisfaction and turnover, and to openly share information that will bring the employment relationship to a positive close.
The information obtained during an Exit Interview is often the most candid and valuable information an employer can hope to receive from an employee, since there is no longer the pressure for the employee to guard one 's responses in an effort to improve their individual status within the firm.
Whether employees leave on their own, or because they are being asked to leave, employee insights can provide valuable "inside information." It is recommended by HR experts throughout the construction industry, that employers should always conduct an Exit Interview in order to obtain this important information.
An exit interview is a survey conducted with an individual who is separating from an organization or relationship. Most commonly, this occurs between an employee and an organization, a student and an educational institution, or a member and an association. An exit interview is the most accurate instrument in assessing the issues that drive an individual to leave an organization. Few other tools illustrate why the individual is separating, what he or she valued while at the organization, and what aspects of the organization needs improvement in order to increase employee engagement, performance, and loyalty. An organization can use the information gained from an exit interview to assess what should be improved, changed, …show more content…
From the employer 's perspective, the primary aim of the exit interview is to learn reasons for the person 's departure, on the basis that criticism is a helpful driver for organizational improvement. Exit interviews (and prior) are also an opportunity for the organization to enable transfer of knowledge and experience from the departing employee to a successor or replacement, or even to brief a team on current projects, issues and contacts. Good exit interviews should also yield useful information about the employer organization, to assess and improve all aspects of the working environment, culture, processes and systems, management and development, etc.; in fact anything that determines the quality of the organization, both in terms of its relationship with its staff, customers, suppliers, third-parties and the general …show more content…
Exit interviews also provide employers an opportunity to control any negative publicity that might come from a discontented employee, pinpoint specific areas causing employee dissatisfaction and turnover, and to openly share information that will bring the employment relationship to a positive close.
The information obtained during an Exit Interview is often the most candid and valuable information an employer can hope to receive from an employee, since there is no longer the pressure for the employee to guard one 's responses in an effort to improve their individual status within the firm.
Whether employees leave on their own, or because they are being asked to leave, employee insights can provide valuable "inside information." It is recommended by HR experts throughout the construction industry, that employers should always conduct an Exit Interview in order to obtain this important information.