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Volume 5, Issue 4
1 May 2006
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Review Article| May 01 2006

Identifying career routes and key skills at Atkins: Increasing retention rates by fostering engagement with development plans

Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 1758-8537
Print ISSN: 1475-4398
© Emerald Group Publishing Limited
2006
Strategic HR Review (2006) 5 (4): 32–35.
https://doi.org/10.1108/14754390680000895

Introducing Management Development Centres enabled Atkins to map its employees’ potential career routes by assessing their key capabilities and interests, explains Brian Fitzgerald, Akins’ director of HR development.

Keywords: HR, Career, Retention
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