A big manufacturing company has its corporate headquarters in a large city in South India with several plants located in various parts of the country. Every year the company hires about 75 college graduates to the position of management trainees. The training period is nine months. While it involves some classroom training, the trainees spend most of the time on the job assisting first line supervisors.
The company has been experiencing difficulties in retaining the management trainees. Many of them have been leaving company before completing the training and the performance of those who have completed the training has not been very satisfactory either. The management is of the view that the staffing process used to hire the trainees is not valid whereas a couple of trainees leaving the organization have expressed displeasure with the training programme of the company.
Questions:
1. How can the staffing process of the company be improved to check excessive employee turnover?
2. What changes should be made in the training programme to retain management trainees?
