The causes and countermeasures of brain drain in enterprises

Abstract

With the increasing degree of economic globalization, the flow of talents in enterprises is significantly accelerating. From the point of view of market resource allocation, a reasonable flow of qualified personnel can optimize the allocation of human resources; from the perspective of an enterprise, an appropriate turnover rate will bring new knowledge, new technologies and more innovative ideas to the enterprise. However, the excessive outflow of talents will bring some negative impacts on the development of business. This paper starts from the concept of brain drain to analyze the causes and impacts behind this phenomenon by means of conducting interviews in the practical field, and finally the corresponding countermeasures toward this issue will be put forward.

The purpose of interview is to penetrate the causes leading to the brain drain around the world by conducting an instant interview to the 4 employees from different countries and companies. However, to investigate and acquire a comprehensive result, all the interviewees are selected in the same age group and equal social status.

According to the interview result, the reason behind the career choices differ from person to person while the most obvious one accounts for this phenomenon is the lack of promotions and the pursuit for personal career development. Apart from the salary issue always being considered, the employees’ feelings and satisfaction toward the company also plays a vital role when they make career decisions. Based on the interview results from our interviewees, some corresponding countermeasure will be put forward to tackle this problem and more discussion from author will be elaborated in the end.