Research Proposal: Hiring and Retention Specialist Employees and a Wildlife Sanctuary, in a Rural Area

Abstract

In today's competitive work environment, one of the key challenges faced by the organization is employee hiring and retention. The research explores to determine whether the increase in the pay will improve the level of employees who are deployed in the rural areas. To carry out this project, client system is adopted. A client system representative is hired to address and provide recommendations on the issue of employee hiring and retention faced by the Wildlife sanctuary, especially in a rural area. Client system representative adopt the action research process, and collect data by conducting interviews to gain an insight on the project. The data is analyzed by content analysis. Process consultation and the change cycle implementation will be employed for effectively communicate between client and Wildlife sanctuary, along with socio-technical systems. Literature makes it apparent that employee hiring and retention are complex; thus, employer need to design job description that fits business need and expectations, as well as adopt a blend of HR strategies of motivation and engagement to retain employees.

Research Proposal: Hiring and Retention Specialist Employees and a Wildlife Sanctuary, in a Rural Area

Introduction

Background

Talent market is rapidly changing that necessitates to heightened emphasis on the firm's ability to hire, develop and retain the talent pool of employees that fits best with the job and organization. Appraisals and evaluations allow firms to gain insight and provide a comprehensive picture on both current and future workforce needs, as well as enhance both pre and post hiring metrics. To make decisions regarding promotion and placement, firms should be armed with the basic knowledge to make sure they are hiring the best people for the job. In addition, retention is emerging focus of organizations, and they started looking to evaluations that assess attitude, satisfaction and fit as part of hiring and retention efforts.

Hiring and retention practices of an organization has the most significant and direct impact on the company. In order to respond the fast pace of competition, employers need to enhance and develop human resource management practices to groom and develop its employees so that they can counter current and future market challenges, as well as provides the company a significant competitive edge over competitors (Cubie, 2011). The hiring policies and decisions of the company vary with the nature of business and projects of the companies. Sometimes, companies need to develop HR policies that fit best to the project nature while keeping in mind the geographical location of the project that is undertaken by certain firm.

Research Problem

This research study will examine hiring and retention issues faced by the Specialist Employees and a Wildlife sanctuary. The research goals will include identification of factors affecting hiring and retention of employees at a Wildlife sanctuary in a rural area. The problem of hiring and retention become more prevailing and significant in a Wildlife sanctuary because of the geographical location and related tough living conditions (Davis, ...