15 Aug LEADERSHIP AND CONTROL
Create a presentation to staff and leadership on your planned response to emerging human resources issues.
Scenario: Imagine that you received the following e-mail from your boss about a month after they adopted your departmental plan outlined in the previous assignment.
Hi,
Looks like we have some issues to address (see below). Let me know how you plan to deal with them. I suggest you put a plan together and share it with your staff and me. Please set up a time for next week to present it.
Thanks,
Grant
SVP Operations
Atha Corporation
From: Havish, Molly <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 10:23:53 AM
To: Grant Stiller <[email protected]>
Subject: RE: HR concerns about retention and hiring
Hi Grant,
I just wanted to follow up with you on a couple of things that concern one of your departments.
First, as you probably know we lost two of our personnel to other companies. The exit interviews were consistent and revealing. Each mentioned that the lack of acknowledgement of their contributions in the wake of the ramp up and sizeable workloads associated with the goal of doubling sales a few months
ago was a factor. They also said the compensation was no longer appropriate for what they were doing and was not competitive with outside opportunities.
Second, our offers to the two candidates identified by your manager as desirable hires were not accepted. One made a counter offer for a 20% higher salary and the other is concerned about benefits – mostly leave (she said that only one week off in the first year was “a challenge.” I’m not sure the compensation we are offering for the increased workload is attractive.
Molly Havish
SVP Human Resources
Instructions
Create an approximately 5-minute presentation with voice narration targeted to your staff and leadership that effectively responds to your superior’s request found in the e-mail. Your presentation should demonstrate leadership qualities such as composure, preparation, solid communication, thoughtfulness, et cetera. The presentation should also:
- Articulate the problems and their sources. (Make sure to include plausible assumptions based upon the facts presented to support your assertions.)
- Detail your plan, which must address:
- Retention: Describe two of the most significant steps you will take to keep employees and why you believe they will be effective.
- Compensation.
- Benefits.
- Culture, leadership, and engagement.
- Hiring: Select one of the positions that you identified in your organizational chart as new hire. Suggest two actions that you will take to secure new hires. Substantiate your ideas with real market data for at least one of your actions. (Cite your sources.) State any assumptions that you need to make to conduct your research. For example, candidate experience, job level, and industry norms.
- Training.
- Onboarding or orientation.
- Communicating organizational values and culture.
- Retention: Describe two of the most significant steps you will take to keep employees and why you believe they will be effective.
- Performance measure and standards: Describe how performance will be measured for one of the position types in your group. Your expectations should be consistent with your stated departmental goals.
Note: You have the option of using Kaltura or PowerPoint to complete your presentation.
Additional Requirements
Your assignment should also meet the following requirements:
- Communication: Ensure your presentation (narrated or PowerPoint) is free of errors that detract from the overall message.
- Length: Approximately 5 minutes. Submit as many presentation slides as needed to meet the requirements of this assignment (include a title slide).
- Visuals: Use font size, colors, and design to assure optimal readability.
