A Report on strategies of how to improve the retention and motivation of employees Title:A report on how to improve the retention and motivation of employees. 1.1REDE Engineering is a medium sized engineering company that is family owned and run. The company in the past few years has been experiencing problems retaining its staff.1.2 Ray Sessions the Managing Director has asked John Shaw the Personnel Manager to investigate the problem and identify strategies to improve the staff retention problem.1.3 The aim of this report is to investigate the problems that REDE Engineering is having, and using the case studies of Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), Southwest Airlines and Richer Sounds, identify solutions on how to solve these problems and come up with recommendations as to how the motivation of the employees can be improved.2 Background Details2.1REDE Engineering is a medium sized business. It is family owned and run business.2.2 REDE Engineering manufactures gallery kitchens for airliners and in this market it is a world leader.2.3 In recent years the firm has been experiencing great problems retaining staff, in certain department the staff turnover has been running at 150% per year.2.4 Due to this problem the firm has experienced problems in delays in customer orders. This has resulted in the firm incurring costly penalties for the late delivery of the products.2.5 The Personnel Manager John Shaw has been asked to carry out an investigation into the staff retention problem and also to find a solution to the companys current skill shortage.2.6 The investigation began with asking the employees what they perceived to be wrong with the company.3Findings 3.1According to the testimonies of some of the employees it would appear the Skills and qualifications of many employees arent being utilised properly.The employees that have had some sort of previous training arent being used efficiently and so t...
