Fresh Price Accounting, Inc., is a well-known accounting firm that
provides exceptional services to businesses and individuals but is
notorious for being a difficult place to work. Employee turnover is at
an all-time high and the company recently had a lawsuit filed against
them for mismanagement of employees.
To improve, they’ve reached out to you, an HR consultant, to help
them identify ways they can change their management of human resources.
To learn more about the problems occurring, you’ve done some research by
interviewing the employees that work at Fresh Price Accounting, Inc.,
and have discovered the following complaints made within the last
calendar year:
More than 68% of current employees stated that there is little motivation to work harder than what is expected of them.
87% of employees identified in a questionnaire that they felt
they couldn’t take extended leave to care for an illness or the illness
of a family member for fear they would lose their jobs.
4 employees were fired shortly after incurring a disability or announcing a pregnancy.
91% of the company is comprised of white males. Individuals
that represent a different race, gender, speak a different language, or
are not originally from the United States felt ‘unwelcomed’ and
‘misunderstood’.
62% of current employees that left the company in less than 6
months cited that they felt inadequately trained for the position they
were hired for.
As their HR consultant, you’ve been asked to relay the
findings of your research in a brief report. The company’s executives
want the report to identify the main issues experienced by the company
and provide suggestions for how to make improvements. Make sure to
provide rationale and examples from sources to support your findings and
recommendations.
The report should be 1500 to 2000 words in length and
well-researched as it will serve as an overview of both the current
human resource management practices as well as your proposed
improvements.
Related Lessons
The following lessons from the course may help you get started with this assignment.
Behavioral Management Theory: Understanding Employee Behavior & Motivation
How Organizations Promote Work-Life Balance: Definition and Common Practices
Types of Employee Training Programs
Role of HR in Promoting Workplace Diversity & Inclusion
Human Resource Management (HRM): Laws & Regulations
Sources & Formatting
Please write your paper in the APA format. As part of your research,
you may refer to the course material for supporting evidence, but you
must also use at least four credible, outside sources and cite
them using APA format. Please include a mix of both primary and
secondary sources, with at least one source from a scholarly
peer-reviewed journal. If you use any Study.com lessons as sources,
please also cite them in APA (including the lesson title and
instructor’s name).
Primary sources are first-hand accounts such as
interviews, advertisements, speeches, company documents, statements, and
press releases published by the company in question.
Secondary sources come from peer-reviewed scholarly
journals, such as the Journal of Management. You may use sources like
JSTOR, Google Scholar, and Social Science Research Network to find
articles from these journals. Secondary sources may also come from
reputable websites with .gov, .edu, or .org in the domain. (Wikipedia is
not a reputable source, though the sources listed in Wikipedia articles
may be acceptable.)
