complete each discussion.
Discussion 5
In our professional experiences, most of us have been frustrated with coworkers that didn't know everything they needed to know and cost their employer money(or their coworkers time) needlessly. A good plan for onboarding and training can engage employees and save money.
Discussion Prompt
Think about a time when you wished your coworkers had received more training in their positions. Then, use the ADDIE method to develop a training program for those coworkers, using your own knowledge as the basis for that training program. If you haven't been employed before, or if you don't remember an instance where coworkers needed training, create a fictional scenario.
Once you've created your own training program, review two training programs created by your classroom peers. Did they complete all the steps of ADDIE? Did they give you any ideas about your own training program?
Discussion 6
When a survey measures an organization's employee engagement, it measures "retention elements" and "engagement elements." What's the difference?
Retention elements include pay, benefits, or an entire compensation package. These are items that keep an employee working, but they don't create engagement. Employees will stay with a company that compensates them well. But this doesn't 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 that's exercising your chosen engagement element well. Do a quick write up of that company and how they're keeping their employees engaged with that element.
Discussion 7
The day she started her new job at a daycare center, Kaitlin Wells posted on social media, "I just really hate being around kids all day." Twenty-seven hours later, she was unemployed again.
Laws protect an employee from being fired for voicing their political beliefs, assembling with other employees to protest or strike, volunteering at civic organizations or smoking and drinking outside of working hours. But social media adds a whole new dimension to employee rights and responsibilities. What, exactly, is okay to post on social media about work, and what will get you fired?
Discussion Prompt
While an employer is prohibited from firing an employee for the above-mentioned activities, social media is different. As we discussed in the text, making statements that are "egregiously offensive or knowingly and maliciously false," or "publicly disparaging your employer's products or services without relating your complaints to any labor controversy" is not protected concerted activity.
Your assignment is to write one or two social media posts about your "job" that could get you fired. Don't post them on your real social media account! Just share them in this discussion thread. The posts should get you "fired" for different reasons. They should all be safe for classroom discussion (no obscenities, lewd remarks, etc.). Then, create one social media post that covers work related subjects but will not get you fired.
