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By Jason Collins<\/a><\/p>\n

In a job market being transformed by AI and other technologies, the old notion of employees as \u201chuman capital\u201d needs to change, starting with how organizations view employee departures.<\/p>\n

Academy of Management Scholar Sekou Bermiss<\/a> of the University of North Carolina\u2019s Kenan- Flagler Business School said that organizations\u2019 leaders should view employees as strategic partners helping them to achieve objectives.<\/p>\n

The first step in shifting one\u2019s mindset: \u201cGetting over the stigma of departure\u2014the stigma of people leaving,\u201d Bermiss said. \u201cThe reason I say that is when people leave a company, historically, it was thought to be a negative signal about their experiences at that company.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow we have to understand that what individuals want will often not be something that a single company can provide, and people are going to move voluntarily,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Bermiss said their leaving is often not because they were pushed out or had a bad manager but rather to pursue growth opportunities or higher pay. He suggested that employees who leave on good terms can become advocates for the organization.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey refer people, they might refer business, they might boomerang back later on, and now you have a great boomerang employee,\u201d Bermiss said. \u201cThat\u2019s one way you can think about someone as a strategic partner.\u201d<\/p>\n

The second way organizations can think of employees as strategic partners is by \u201cthinking about how you appeal to the incoming generation of workers\u201d who want to know how their role fits in and feel like they\u2019re able to achieve a purpose in the organization.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis employer-employee relationship is a partnership that every day I need to renegotiate this contract to make sure you still see the purpose from day one,\u201d Bermiss said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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