Question:

Assessment brief/activity

Your CEO has asked each departmental head to undertake a critical review of their systems, processes and practices as part of a major organisational change agenda. You have been asked to review an area of HR/business practice and present a business report to key stakeholders with recommendations for improving practice. To provide the basis for your report, you have been asked to conduct a critical review of information sources relevant to the area of practice. You should:

 Select an area of HR/business practice and give the reason for your choice  Undertake a critical review of different information sources (at least three) e.g. research digests, academic and professional literature, online databases, key texts relevant to the selected area of practice.

 In your write up of the literature review you should explain why you selected that particular source and highlight some of the different research approaches adopted by the authors and comment on the advantages and disadvantages of these different approaches.

 Draw meaningful conclusions from the review of the different information sources.

 Make justified recommendations to named stakeholders for sustaining and/or improving practice.

Solution/Answer:

Executive Summary Employee retention identifies the sets of practices carried out by a management to ensure that employees remain in an organization for a longer time. In this regard, this is a critical requirement for enhancing the attainment of an entity goals and objectives. In this study, the company of focus is ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

1.0 Assessment Criteria 4.1: Introduction to Research

In the contemporary competitive business environment, HR plays a critical role in ensuring companies leverage on competitive advantage. In this regard, CIPD (2011a) argued that it was essential to facilitate an ample management of employee retention as a strategy in HRM as it is guaranteed realization of entity goals and objectives. The strategies to enhance the employee’s retention include rewards and compensation, appropriate work environment, provision of promotional activities among others (CIPD., 2011b). All these practices ensure the success of an organization in its environment of operations. In context of the focus company National Gas and Industrialization Company (NGIC) which is involved in a natural gas refinery in Saudi Arabia, it adopts multiple employee retention strategies. These strategies are aimed at ensuring that the company succeeds in its pursuit of guaranteeing industrial and economic progress in Saudi Arabia. This company has been facing issues of employee retention in its refinery department affecting its profitability and dominance in this competitive industry. In this regard, this study will evaluate the reasons and present recommendations to improve the retention in the company.  This will be achieved by reviewing the current literature studies on employee retention practices, assessing the different issues in employee retention facing the company, recommending strategies in which employee retention can be improved in the case study company.

2.0 Assessment Criteria 2.1: HR area of Choice

The selected HR area of choice is employee retention. Notably, the focus is delivering a recommendation to the management on how they can implement employee retention through adopting work-life balance. The rationale of this is that majority of the NGIC staff have been complaining of lack of flexible working hours which has been noted in several exit interviews which I have been involved in the past. In most instances, due to lack of flexible working environment, the employees face issues of satisfaction, being unhappy hence failing to serve their customers dedicatedly with their loyalty to the organization declining. Accordingly, a successful implementation of the identified strategy will serve the role of strengthening the company mission which includes fierce monitoring of resources by reducing the amount of costs incurred in HR and business disruptions leading to high employee turnover……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………...Please contact us to receive the remain parts of the assessment

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