Week G Assignment

Our Week G Assignment will build on our newfound understanding of the importance of employee engagement and the challenges organizations face in retaining employees, especially younger employees. We will examine an example of a disengaged employee, and determine how an organization might prevent that employee from leaving.

Here are the steps students should take to complete this assignment:

  1. Read this Case Study and think about how you might feel in Harper’s shoes.
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  2. Read this article, Eight Effective Retention Strategies1, and determine which might work best in Harper’s situation.
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  3. Follow this guide to create a new post and include your responses to the following questions. Select “Retention” as the post Category. All submissions will populate under the Student Work menu item (Student Work > Retention). Students should review others’ submissions and comment meaningfully (refer to this guide from MMSU for reference) to at least two other students.
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    • What do you think is the most demotivating part of Harper’s job?
    • If you were an HR manager meeting with Harper’s supervisor, David, what advice would you give to help David re-engage Harper?
    • What would be the downside of losing Harper as an employee?

As always, if you need more information, you can ask me a question. For information on due dates, check our Course Schedule.

Sources:

1Zippia: https://www.zippia.com/employer/8-effective-employee-retention-strategies/