Assessment 1 Instructions: HR Challenge: Engagement Study Preparation
Budget: $30 – $250 USD
Research options for measuring and addressing employee engagement issues at CapraTek and then write a 2-3 page internal memo for the leadership team to propose possible actions. Use the information in the interactive learning module to give you the scenario at CapraTek.
Today's employees have the expectation that their job will be more than a place of work where they will spend a minimum of 40 hours a week. HR professionals pay attention to all facets of the employee experience, from what it feels like to be recruited, to the step-by-step process of onboarding a new employee, and ultimately to how an employee separates from the company. The stages that employees go through during their career in your organization are known as the employee life cycle.
Multiple people are responsible for ensuring employee engagement throughout the employee life cycle in an organization, including managers and HR professionals. Many organizations are measuring employee engagement via different tools and strategies because they are aware of the potential ROI (return on investment).
HR professionals should anticipate a need before it actually happens in the organization, at least to the greatest possible extent. As the managers of the organization’s most valuable resource—people—even the smallest negative influences can have a major impact. Part of anticipating these needs is knowledge of employee engagement and the Gallup model of the employee life cycle. Then, HR pros need to be able to research the situation and provide leadership with options for a solution to the employee or workplace issue the organization is facing. This assessment takes the learner to the HR role, having to respond to a situation that introduces one of a group of first line supervisors who are not sufficiently engaged with their direct reports
Your Challenge
As an HR professional at CapraTek, you have been tasked with putting together an internal memo that briefly describes the employee engagement issues that have been observed and options that the leadership team could consider to address the engagement issues in advance of a meeting with the organization's leadership team.
Instructions
Write an internal memo of approximately 2–3 pages that an HR professional could use as a reference when attending a meeting with the organization's leadership team. Include the following in the memo:
Format your paper as an internal memo that includes the following fields at the top of the page:
To, From, Internal Memo: CapraTek Employee Engagement, Date.
The rest of the memo can be written as a normal paper including an introduction, conclusion, and the following elements:
Describe the current employee engagement situation at CapraTek as observed from the material throughout the course.
Explain the stages in the employee life cycle according to the Gallup model.
Explain theories of motivation that lead to organizational commitment, employee retention and employee development.
Prepare a list of tools and practices that could be used to collect data about employee engagement at CapraTek.
What are the actions that could address the engagement problems?
Analyze what criteria would be present for you to know that employees at CapraTek are engaged and functioning as effectively as possible in the workplace.
What is the ideal state of employee engagement?
What would that look like in the day-to-day work of employees?
Today's employees have the expectation that their job will be more than a place of work where they will spend a minimum of 40 hours a week. HR professionals pay attention to all facets of the employee experience, from what it feels like to be recruited, to the step-by-step process of onboarding a new employee, and ultimately to how an employee separates from the company. The stages that employees go through during their career in your organization are known as the employee life cycle.
Multiple people are responsible for ensuring employee engagement throughout the employee life cycle in an organization, including managers and HR professionals. Many organizations are measuring employee engagement via different tools and strategies because they are aware of the potential ROI (return on investment).
HR professionals should anticipate a need before it actually happens in the organization, at least to the greatest possible extent. As the managers of the organization’s most valuable resource—people—even the smallest negative influences can have a major impact. Part of anticipating these needs is knowledge of employee engagement and the Gallup model of the employee life cycle. Then, HR pros need to be able to research the situation and provide leadership with options for a solution to the employee or workplace issue the organization is facing. This assessment takes the learner to the HR role, having to respond to a situation that introduces one of a group of first line supervisors who are not sufficiently engaged with their direct reports
Your Challenge
As an HR professional at CapraTek, you have been tasked with putting together an internal memo that briefly describes the employee engagement issues that have been observed and options that the leadership team could consider to address the engagement issues in advance of a meeting with the organization's leadership team.
Instructions
Write an internal memo of approximately 2–3 pages that an HR professional could use as a reference when attending a meeting with the organization's leadership team. Include the following in the memo:
Format your paper as an internal memo that includes the following fields at the top of the page:
To, From, Internal Memo: CapraTek Employee Engagement, Date.
The rest of the memo can be written as a normal paper including an introduction, conclusion, and the following elements:
Describe the current employee engagement situation at CapraTek as observed from the material throughout the course.
Explain the stages in the employee life cycle according to the Gallup model.
Explain theories of motivation that lead to organizational commitment, employee retention and employee development.
Prepare a list of tools and practices that could be used to collect data about employee engagement at CapraTek.
What are the actions that could address the engagement problems?
Analyze what criteria would be present for you to know that employees at CapraTek are engaged and functioning as effectively as possible in the workplace.
What is the ideal state of employee engagement?
What would that look like in the day-to-day work of employees?