Students will complete the discussion in 12-point, Times New Roman font using APA format. There must be a minimum of two sources to support primary responses. Students are required to post their primary response (250 word minimum) by today at midnight. Students will upload a response post (secondary response to one other student) also today by midnight (150 words minimum). You must have a minimum of two references to support your answer and two in-text citations of those references.

*Note that attendance is counted through the discussion forum.

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Module 10 Discussion: Building Positive Employee Relations

When a survey measures an organizations employee engagement, it measures retention elements and engagement elements. Whats the difference?

Retention elements include pay, benefits, or an entire compensation package. These are items that keep an employee working, but they dont create engagement. Employees will stay with a company that compensates them well. But this doesnt mean that they go above or beyond to achieve their goals or the goals of the organization.

Engagement elements, on the other hand, are those elements that push an employee from a working drone to an active, engaged member of a work team who furthers the goals of the organization. Rewards and recognition is an example of an engagement element. When an employee is recognized for her contributions in front of her peers, for instance, her engagement level goes up. Other engagement elements include employee accountability/ownership, leadership, culture, company vision, and corporate responsibility.

Discussion Prompt

Select one engagement element from the following list:

• rewards/recognition
• employee accountability/ownership
• leadership
• culture
• company vision
• corporate responsibility

Find a company thats exercising your chosen engagement element well. Do a quick write up of that company and how theyre keeping their employees engaged with that element. Once youve done your write up, review the write-ups of one of your classmates and make valuable comments. Remember to cite the sources that you use.