Produce a 3,500 word paper critically evaluating employee engagement in their own organisation or an organisation known well to them.

Case Study

The 3,500 word case study involves each participant acting as ‘internal consultants’ by developing a piece which critically evaluates employee engagement in the student’s organisation or in an organisation known well to the student with a view to identifying good practice, diagnosing problems and barriers and suggesting improvement strategies.

Further Assessment Details and Assessment Criteria

Assessment 2: Case Study paper.

Statement setting the paper in context:

‘One of the biggest challenges facing the contemporary organisation is employee engagement. As well as the importance of recruiting new talent, further challenges lie in ensuring existing employees are focused, engaged and thus retained. Links have been identified between high levels of employee engagement and better business performance. Many contemporary organisations are placing a greater emphasis on measuring employee engagement and implementing strategies to improve employee satisfaction, motivation and commitment’.

Brief:

The above statement reminds us of the growing importance of employee engagement and the requirement for Human Resource specialists to be able to facilitate the effective management of engagement within their organisations.
Students are required to produce a 3,500 word paper critically evaluating employee engagement in their own organisation or an organisation known well to them.

The organisation chosen may be your current employer, or one your former employers.
The paper should describe and evaluate the organisation’s approach to employee engagement. The study should include consideration of all, but need not be limited to, these key themes – Reward, ER/Employee Voice, The Engaging Manager and Diversity. The evaluation should be tested within a theoretically informed analysis of the empirical case.
The paper is to contain a set of practical, costed recommendations and a clearly mapped out action plan.

In general terms, the paper will be assessed, guided by demonstration of:

Understanding, evaluation and critical assessment of issues, debates, models and theoretical perspectives, relevant to the topic.

Application of concepts, frameworks and empirical evidence to develop analysis.

Appreciation of the relationships between HR policies & practices and levels of engagement and organisational performance.

Ability to create cost-effective and strategically sound action plans for promoting engagement in their organisations and/or embedding levels of engagement already accomplished.

Coherent, logical structure with well supported conclusions.

Evidence of extensive, relevant reading and quality of referencing/citation (using Harvard Referencing standards).

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