1-Employee Engagement
a-Think about your current (if you are not currently working - you last job). What does the organization do to engage workers? If the CEO came to you and asked you to develop a plan to engage workers, what would you suggest? Support your answers with material from this week's material.
2-When Marissa Mayer was hired as CEO of Yahoo! morale among the employees had been very low. Watch the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y574e_7kH8g
and read the article https://www.bloomberg.com/bw/articles/2013-11-12/yahoos-latest-hr-disaster-ranking-workers-on-a-curve on the employee related actions by Marissa Mayer, CEO of Yahoo.
Then address the following questions:
b-Explain the two controversial decisions made by Mayer regarding employees.
c-Discuss whether or not you agree with each of these decisions. Support your answers.
d-Explain what you see as the impact (positive and negative) of these decisions on employee morale, engagement, and retention.
e-Discuss what you learned from the engagement video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4nwoZ02AJM about employees who "sink the boat." As a consultant, how would you suggest that Mayer handle these employees?
3. Turnover
f-Might their relative importance depend on the type of employee or job? Explain.
g-If I said to you, "It's easy to reduce turnover - just pay your employees more money," what would your response be? Support your answer.