- What do you think is the most demotivating part of Harper’s job?
The most demoting part of Harper’s job currently is the newly given workload. Ever since Jose’s departure, Harper has been overworked. This is because Jose was the one who managed Harper but now that he left, Harper has no one to manage her work. This has been affecting her in many negative ways. One of those ways is the balance between work and life, Harper feels that it is becoming hard to balance her life with work and feels that work is overflowing her time outside of it. This is bad because constant work can make Harper put less effort into her work or even worse, quit. She is already deciding on whether she should leave Marketable Inc. or not due to her being burnt out. She begins to feel like all her work is not being recognized which is a terrible feeling. This feeling can turn into anger if Harper doesn’t get any benefits for all her hard work. Being overworked to the point where it affects your life isn’t a healthy work environment for a human; especially if it isn’t recognized.
- If you were an HR manager meeting with Harper’s supervisor, David, what advice would you give to help them re-engage Harper?
If I were an HR manager, I would ask David to speak with Harper and ask her about her experience with the recent work and how it has been treating her. I think the best way for them to talk would be to throw a meeting with just them two. After Harper explains her recent experiences as we already addressed, they will have to discuss a way to fix the current problem in a grounded approach. David will have to provide Harper with a healthier workload or maybe higher a new person to manage her work. If not, that then give her a more flexible schedule. After the agreements are settled, I would give Harper a least a day off to collect herself and prepare for the next chapter at work. Lastly, I would recommend to David that he should give more benefits and maybe even promotions to people who put in the work and are reliable, handy, employees.
- What would be the downside of losing Harper as an employee?
Harper leaving Marketable Inc could be very tragic for the company. Starting with the fact that Harper has been with the company for 4 years and has had the same role in the company for that time. This means she is already well educated in the company and is comfortable with everything there; this can lead to better results in her work. Another thing is that if she quits then the company will have to find a new hire that they don’t have any relationship with. This basically means they will have to build up a whole new employee which takes at least a year. The team only had six members, with Harper leaving it would be five; this is terrible because that means there would be double the work and the output for results would be slowed down tremendously. Harper’s leaving will slow down time for the company and they will have a lot of catching up to do.