Assignment task:
Several factors drive employee engagement. These influential factors include leadership, culture, communication, diversity, work-life balance, and acknowledgment, to name a handful. Employee engagement drives the organizational performance that influences the bottom-line which ultimately determines organizational success or failure. Consequently, quality employee engagement and morale are leading factors in organizational success.
Scenario:
For this discussion, consider a scenario wherein a company has hired you as a business development consultant. This large business needs help in terms of understanding why they continually maintain both low scores on their employee satisfaction surveys and high levels of turnover. As a consultant, you know that many factors contribute to employee satisfaction and employee engagement.
Part 1: Your Initial Post
Supply a recommendation that addresses the following:
- Discuss some strategies that the leadership can use to engage employees and promote positive work attitudes (Review Chapter 3Links to an external site. of your textbook).
- Select one theory of motivation and discuss how it can be used to promote employee engagement (Chapter 7).
Make sure to provide a rationale for each of your recommendations that include cited evidence.
In your initial post, you are required to reference at least 3 course materials.
Part 2: Connect with Your Classmates' Posts
Consider the recommendations and evidence supplied by your classmates.
Thinking about your own experiences at work, share additional insights you have gained about employee engagement and employee satisfaction. Review the article, The Pandemic? A Healthy Organizational Culture Still Eats Strategy for Lunch, and watch the video, The Future of Hybrid Working. Offer your perspective as to how their recommendations could be expanded or improved to keep up with the changes in the labor market.
Requirements
See the Discussion rubric for a comprehensive list of the requirements. Keep in mind the following:
1. Post no more than 300 words for your initial post.
2. Justify your explanations by including in-text citations and your references in APA format as applicable.
- In your initial post, you are required to reference at least 3 course materials.
3. Read any postings already provided by your instructor or fellow students and respond accordingly. Remember to read the feedback to your own major postings and reply to it throughout the module.
4. Review your writing for grammar and spelling before posting.