Employee Recruitment and Retention at ADECA

  Examine the factors that influence employee recruitment and retention. GEL-1.02: Demonstrate college-level communication through the composition of original materials in Standard English. 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): ADECA is an online grocery, and pre-made meals service started in 2020. Currently, they have 150 employees in the San Francisco, California facility. The company, founded by Chef Parker, was started with the following mission and vision statements: Mission: We provide healthy meals for all. Vision statement: We feed everyone as we feed ourselves. 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 San Francisco area, although there are no other benefits except for two weeks off per year. The website looks like a template for a simple website you determine to be boring, with little or no information, except their menus, 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 on contract for delivery of executive meals. The promotion at the company just seems to be the few client reviews. 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: Paper must be in Question/ Answer Format with all checklisted items, but also in paragraph format. 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 ADECA can use to impact employee retention positively.