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Why You Should Let Your Favorite Employee Move to Another Team

ILR HR Studies Professor Warns Against Talent Hoarding

ILR School HR Studies Associate Professor JR Keller shares research from the past five years focusing on internal talent hoarding, which refers to a host of manager behaviors that prevent subordinates from pursuing jobs elsewhere within the organization.
 
In a recent study, 75% of managers openly admitted to hoarding talent — and, given that this is not exactly a socially desirable behavior, you can bet that that percentage is actually much higher.