International Journal of Research in Social Sciences
  • Year: 2014
  • Volume: 4
  • Issue: 4

Employee Poaching- Why? & Whom?

  • Author:
  • Kanika Khare, Sanjeev Singhal, Rajendra Singh
  • Total Page Count: 11
  • Page Number: 118 to 128

*Asst. Professor, Indore Institute of Management and Research

**Head and HOD, Indore Institute of Computer Application

Online published on 12 February, 2015.

Abstract

Poaching of employees may hamper company's goal and manpower management. Employee poaching takes place when a company hires an employee from a competing company. Employee poaching often happens in the IT industry because of high-demand technical skills Level of employee poaching were major area of concern for the HR. Employee poaching is done to poach an employee from the competitive companies because now a day's it's difficult to search an employee for a company; it is like war for talent. Higher and middle management employees were mostly preferred when the poaching is done. We have investigate the HR view towards poaching, their strategy for poaching and investigate its causes and consequences. We find that more than half of the HR feels it should not be done but still they do adopt it while searching for the employee at senior level. The extent of poaching, its determinants and consequences may affect the companies but still the HR department do it for the experienced employees. Employee poaching can be dismissed by the non poaching agreements or anti-poaching.

Keywords

Poaching, Employee Hiring, Employee Hunting, Trapping employees, Talent hunting