There's a really good article about this from Alex Papadimoulis, the founder of thedailywtf - http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Up-or-Out-Solving-the-IT-Turnover-

There's a really good article about this from Alex Papadimoulis, the founder of thedailywtf - http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Up-or-Out-Solving-the-IT-Turnover-Crisis.aspx http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Up-or-Out-Solving-the-IT-Tur... which pulls in a lot of the ideas from the "Cravath System"[1], a hiring and "employee/career management" process developed by a law firm some 100 years ago. [1] https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Cravath_System https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Cravath_Syste...