Supernova Dog Treats, Inc., is experiencing a sharp decrease in employee morale due to rumors that employees at Sasha’s Snazzy Snacks, a local competitor, make 20% more money. Employees are threatening to leave. Supernova’s business priority is sustainability and profit, and lower wages help maximize profit, which looks good to investors. Conversely, employees’ wages are a major factor in the employees’ own financial stability and their overall feelings about the quality of their jobs. If Supernova doesn’t address this issue, a large group of employees might leave, which would hurt production and damage the organization’s reputation as a place to work. By analyzing current wages and exploring avenues to phase in wage increases and other possible incentives, Supernova has an opportunity to address the issue without drastically changing its business strategy, and employees see a long-term plan to increase their earnings.
The issues Supernova is experiencing are common for organizations when struggling to balance business and employee needs. For this assignment, you will explore a variety of organizational issues from both a business and employee perspective and create corresponding hypothetical scenarios similar to the Supernova Dog Treats, Inc., example scenario.
Supporting Materials
The following resource supports your work on this assignment:
Resource: Business Versus Employee Needs Table
This resource provides examples of organizational issues from both a business and employee perspective as well as desired outcomes to consider for your hypothetical scenarios discussed in your short paper.
Directions
Review the Business Versus Employee Needs Table found in the Supporting Materials section and select three organizational issues. Using the template provided, create a hypothetical scenario that corresponds to each organizational issue. Refer to the Supernova Dog Treats, Inc., scenario as an example when creating your own scenarios. For each scenario, briefly explain the business and employee perspectives, the consequences if the issue is not addressed, and the impact of the desired outcome. Support your ideas with scholarly sources.
Specifically, you must address the following rubric criteria:
Scenario: Provide three hypothetical scenarios that correspond to an organizational issue.
Explain the issue within each hypothetical scenario.
Perspectives: Explain the challenges or opportunities from the business and employee perspectives for each hypothetical scenario.
Identify the challenges or opportunities from a business perspective.
Identify the challenges or opportunities from an employee perspective.
Consequences: Explain the potential consequences for the organization if the issue is not addressed for each hypothetical scenario.
Outcome: Explain how the desired outcome positively influences business and employee perspectives for each hypothetical scenario.
Explain how business perspectives are positively impacted by the desired outcome.
Explain how employee perspectives are positively impacted by the desired outcome.
What to Submit
Complete the Module Four Short Paper Template. Sources should be cited according to APA style.