Introduction:
Effective recruitment can lead to successful retention of employees. Since it is costly to lose trained and experienced employees, it behooves the human resource professionals tasked with recruitment and selection to create successful processes and strategies to keep the talent within the organization.
In this assignment, you will read the fictional scenario and examine some of the factors influencing employee recruitment and retention by addressing the checklist items.
Scenario (fictional):
Bree’s Bakery started in 2021. Currently, they have 40 employees in their Midwest facility. The company, founded by Chef Bree, was started with the following mission and vision statements:
Mission: We are the area’s premier bakery.
Vision statement: We provide our customers with an unparalleled product and experience.
The human resources function has been outsourced until recently when they hired you as the new HR Director. You have looked at their metrics and determined that their turnover rate is high, even for the industry. You start investigating to see what might be happening. You look at the wages, which appear to be standard for the area, although there are no other benefits except for 10 days of paid time off (PTO) per year. The website looks like a template for a simple website you determine to be boring, with little or no information, except a list of their bakery items, pricing, address, cell number, a way to prepay online, and a few reviews. You realize the prices are very high. The clientele is mostly wealthy private clients and employers who use the bakery items for meetings with their clients.
Curious, you then go to the database to look at the statements made by employees who answered an exit survey as to why they left the company. They all stated in various ways that the company fell short of the founder’s vision. You get to work to determine the following:
Checklist:
In an informative essay, analyze three factors that might impact attracting (recruitment) and retaining employees (retention) at this company.
Provide a description for each factor and examine how the factor influences recruitment and retention.
For each of the three factors, identify a strategy that Bree’s Bakery can use to impact employee retention positively.
Your assignment should be a 2–3 -page paper, not including the title and reference pages, and should include the following elements:
Title page: Provide your name, title of assignment, course and section number, and date.
Body: Answer all the questions in complete sentences and paragraphs.
The assignment must be written in Standard English and demonstrate superior organization, including a highly developed viewpoint and purpose.
The communication of your thoughts must be highly ordered, logical, and unified, displaying exceptional content, organization, style, and mechanics (including the use of correct grammar, punctuation, and sentence structure).
Reference page: Sources listed in current APA format.
In addition to the APA Ethics Code, include a minimum of two scholarly or academic sources from the PG Library to support your responses and conclusions.
Use Arial or Times New Roman 12-point font, double-spaced, left-aligned.
Use current APA formatting and citation style