Assignment: Rewarding Volunteers
The Online University has established a broadcasting station that must be staffed with volunteers because of budgetary constraints. Volunteers are selected and trained to fill certain roles. The program director did not have a leadership style that worked well with the volunteers, and ultimately he left. For nine months, there was no program director. Another newly hired program director did not get along with the volunteers, and this time, the volunteers resigned and left the station with little help.
Write a six to eight page paper in which you:
1. Analyze the causes of the problem with understaffing at the Online University.
2. Discuss the importance of a compatible leadership style to motivate and manage a volunteer staff.
3. Propose a reward system that would adequately maintain volunteer enthusiasm for these tasks.
4. Describe the appropriate communication or training program that could have alleviated part of this problem and how you would implement it in the future.
5. Use at least three quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not qualify as academic resources.
Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:
• Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
• Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student's name, the professor's name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required page length.
The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:
• Develop work designs that support the human resources strategy.
• Examine the human resource management function of recruiting and its importance to business strategy.
• Review the human resource management function of training and development and the function's importance to business strategy.
• Discuss the importance of the performance appraisal process and how it is a key component of business strategy.
• Use technology and information resources to research issues in human resource management.
• Write clearly and concisely about human resource management using proper writing mechanics.