Scenario
Organization: Freshly Produced
Position: Chief Human Resources Officer
Background: As the newly appointed Chief Human Resources Officer at Freshly Produced, a rapidly growing grocery chain. Your mandate is to write an excerpt for the employee handbook that speaks to ways the organization is committed to their employees satisfaction, engagement, and success.
- Create the handbook excerpt using Canva, Adobe, or Visme (other options possible if approved by the instructor). Specific style requirements must be met depending on the submission method (see rubric).
- The excerpt must include leadership expectations (style, diversity and inclusion practices or hiring initiatives, and employee commitment initiatives as detailed below.
Leadership Expectations:
- Leadership style(s): Choose 1 leadership style you would encourage to create the desired culture/environment. Include examples of specific traits, behaviors, and characteristics of that style that are beneficial for employee engagement (citations required)
Diversity and Inclusion OR Practices:
- What hiring and promotion policies are in place to ensure there is diversity at the executive level of the organization and throughout?
- What hiring practices would you incorporate to ensure that internal hiring (and succession efforts) takes precedence over all external hiring?
Employee Commitment Initiatives (see potential examples below speak to 3 minimum):
- Professional development opportunities
- Work-life balance
- Benefits
- Fair compensation
- Wellness programs
- Career advancement and progression
- Flexible work arrangements
- Employee recognition programs
