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Homework: SLP- Employee Retention

For this SLP homework, review the following:

Arthur, D. (2019). Chapter 17: Online employee orientation. In Recruiting, interviewing, selecting, & orienting new employees (6th ed.). Harper Collins [Books 24/7]. Available in the Trident Online Library, Skillsoft database.

Losing key employees can have a disproportionate impact on the business. The people that organizations wish to retain are often the ones most likely to leave. It has been said that every worker is five minutes away from handing in his or her notice, and 150 working hours away from walking out of the door to a better offer. There is no such thing as a job for life and today's workers have few qualms about leaving employers. Action is required to retain talented people, but there are limits to what any organization can do. Employees are more likely to stay willingly if they feel valued and ensuring that this happens is the most important message of this chapter.

The main takeaway for employee retention is that if a company's employees are happy, if they are treated as valued assets to the company, and if they experience a good work/life balance, they will usually exhibit a strong organizational commitment to the company. There is something that will help to put a new employee on the path to commitment to the organization: an employee orientation program. Arthur (2019) developed an excellent sample orientation program in Chapter 17 of Arthur textbook.

Your SLP homework is to develop an employee orientation program based upon the model published by Arthur (2019), or another one you find in your Trident Online Library research, or one from your employer that needs to be updated.

Arthur (2019) identified 40 topics that can be covered in an employee orientation program although you certainly do not need to include all of them. Your employee orientation plan should contain at least five sections, but the choice of which sections is up to you. It is best to select options that fit your industry, employee pool, and company so that the SLP homework is meaningful to you. You can do more than five sections if you want a more complete program.

You also have the option of developing an online orientation or a traditional face-to-face group orientation. As you determine the format and content of your orientation program, keep in mind that there are drawbacks and advantages to both types. You can read about these areas in Arthur's (2019) Chapter 17, too.

In your 3 pages essay, address the four parts of the homework:

Question I. Develop an employee orientation program that contains not less than five (of the 40 sections discussed by Arthur (2019) in Chapter 17 of the required reading.

Question II. Review the five selected components of your orientation program and discuss why each was selected.

Question III. Discuss which type of program was created and explain why it was selected, what the advantages are of the format you selected, and what the disadvantages are of the format you did not select.

Question IV. Meet with a coworker or supervisor and show them the list of 40 options available for your plan, pointing out the five you selected. Did they agree or not agree with your choices? What did they see as more important to your company's new employees?