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Assignment: 3 parts: two parts are short answers, the last part is a 4 page paper.

Part 1: Respond to the following discussion question. To earn full credit, post a response of 150 words that includes at least 1 APA citation and the associated reference:

The Manager's Notebook, "Voluntary Turnover in China," addresses the high rate at which workers in China have been choosing to quit their jobs. Do you think voluntary turnover is becoming more of an issue in the United States? If you are a manager, do you think that voluntary turnover is an issue? How would you deal with it?

Part 2: Your journal post should be 150 words long. For this unit:

Think about your own goals to achieve work-life balance in your work life. How will these goals influence the type of career choices that you make? What about the type of company or industry that you will seek out for employment? What trade-offs are you willing to make to achieve your goals for work-life balance with regards to salary, ambition, or geographic location?

Part 3: Write a 4-5 page paper in APA format (not including the cover page and reference page) that responds to the prompts below.

Scenario. Locate a type of business that has a high voluntary turnover. Where there is high voluntary turnover, managers often face difficulty in finding replacement workers. If you are a manager in a high-voluntary turnover situation and one of your workers decides to leave, you will likely find yourself on the market, fighting to replace the talent that just left. A high-voluntary turnover problem also usually means difficulty in finding and hiring replacements.

1. Describe the business and give an overview of your analysis of why it has high voluntary turnover.

2. You have been asked by that company to hire a new worker for your unit. You have been given responsibility for conducting the recruitment and selection. How would you recruit a new worker for your unit? Explain why you would use those particular methods and sources. How will you select the applicant who will actually get the job? Would you use some sort of tests and an interview? If so, what kind and in what order? Can you help to avoid the high voluntary turnover during the recruitment process?

3. An alternative to trying to hire scarce talent is to grow your own. That is, an organization may decide to provide training and development opportunities to current workers in order to development needed talent. What are the advantages and disadvantages of this approach?

4. Do you think internal development of talent would also have an effect on voluntary turnover? Why? What would be the downside?

5. When the United States signed a free-trade agreement with Canada (1989), no one thought twice about it. When the agreement with Mexico was signed (1994), there was significant opposition. Use the concepts of interindustry and intra-industry trade to explain the differences in opposition to the two trade agreements.

6. Do you know of or can you locate any companies that focus on internal development? Does it seem to be effective?