Overview
Read the project overview in your syllabus and the instructions for the Week 6 and Week 10 assignments before beginning this assignment. Your project for this course requires you to understand the employee engagement problem thoroughly before you brainstorm any solutions. For this reason, suspend judgment or recommendations in writing this paper and focus instead on understanding current and/or future problems your chosen company may face regarding employee engagement. You will not be writing recommendations until the Weeks 6 and 10 assignments. Use this assignment to build a thorough, multi-faceted picture of the current state, the needs, and the gap in employee engagement for your chosen organization.
By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies:
Analyze the components of employee engagement for contemporary workplaces.
Integrate human resource theories and models to create innovative, engaging, and productive work environments.
Communicate in a manner that is scholarly, professional, and consistent with expectations for members of the business professions.
Assignment Instructions
Refer to the research you have conducted specific to your organization.
Identify what is known in the following areas by answering the following questions in an APA-formatted paper. For all of the questions below, the best practice is to support your conclusions with references to the sources you have found in your research and/or the readings thus far in the course.
Analyze three business issues this organization is facing.
Determine whether this company’s industry as a whole is experiencing issues related to employee engagement, recruiting, or retention. For example, if it is a retail organization, is the retail industry facing changes that challenge your organization? Once again, be sure to incorporate research to support your discussion.
Analyze employee retention issues this organization might be facing. You may find evidence of this through articles or Web sites about the company itself; more likely you will read about what is happening within the industry or to competitors, and use your best judgment to make inferences.
Evaluate the tools and strategies the company might be using to recruit and retain employees. Do you find anything on social media that indicates these types of efforts?
A successful Understanding the Current State and the Future Needs paper will present both the course readings and your own research.
Assignment Requirements
References:
Use very recent sources only (no older than one year, unless you can defend an exception).
Include no fewer than three news or popular resources from your own research. This may include the company’s own publications about itself.
Integrate at least two of the required course readings.
Format: Use APA Style and FormatLinks to an external site. for this paper.
Length: 4–6 pages, not including title, abstract, and reference pages.
Refer to the Understanding the Current State and the Future Need Rubric to learn how this assignment will be evaluated.
Submit your paper to the assignment area.
