Employers understand that they have to offer quality jobs to their employees if they want talented people to work for them, rather than for a competitor. The quality of employment is important to employers and their employees.

Organizations that want to become and remain employers-of-choice ask themselves: What will motivate employees (or prospective employees) to come to work for our organization, work hard for our organization when they are here, and want to stay working for our organization.

The interpretation of each of these dimensions of quality employment varies, of course, from workplace to workplace. Recognizing this variability, we provide some general descriptions and core elements of each aspect of the quality of employment in the second column of the table below