Head hunting and poaching
Both head hunting and poaching have short-term advantages – you get the person you want and the staff member usually gets a better contract – but may have longer term disadvantages including:
- breakdown in collaboration with other organisations
- competition driving up salaries to unrealistic levels
- weakening of local and national government as staff are tempted away
In some emergencies, organisations agree neither to head hunt nor to poach national staff especially . If they do make such an agreement, there should be both a commitment to establishing fair terms and conditions, and a mechanism to allow staff to pursue their own professional development, which might indeed require a change of employer.
Think carefully before head hunting or poaching civil servants such as teachers, nurses and doctors, as you risk seriously weakening the government services they provide.
This page was last updated by Phil Wilks on 28 April 2010 at 12:14:45 (2 years ago).
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