Recruitment and Retention Strategies for Project Teams

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MODULE 11 UNIT 2
Activity submission

Learning outcomes:
LO2: Articulate how to recruit project team members.
LO3: Analyse why talent leaves organisations.
LO4: Investigate how to motivate project team members.
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3. Answer all questions in your own words. Do not copy any text from the
notes, readings or other sources. The assignment must be your
own work only.
Plagiarism declaration:
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2. Mark allocation
Each question receives a mark allocation. However, you will only receive a
final percentage mark and will not be given individual marks for each
question. The mark allocation is there to show you the weighting and
length of each question.
Question 1: The Herzberg motivation-hygiene factor quiz 10
Question 2: Recruitment and retention 10
TOTAL 20
3. Questions
Question 1
Complete the Herzberg Motivation-Hygiene Factors Quiz, and, if possible,
have members of your project team complete it as well. Based on the
results, explain what you can do to improve motivation. If you are the only
project team member to complete the quiz, then assume that your ranking
of the factors is representative of the whole project team. If you and
several project team members complete the quiz, then you will need to
aggregate the results. Keep in mind that you will need to correlate the
final result with how things actually work. For example, if salary is ranked
as the factor with the most influence on performance, you would have to
indicate whether salaries of the project team are, for example, market
related, higher than what the market pays or lower than what the market
pays. If the salaries of project team members are below the market rate,
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then you would firstly indicate that fact and then you would indicate what
could be done to either increase salaries or to offset or reduce the
“dissatisfaction” effect on individual and team performance of lower-than-
market-rate salaries. (Max. 25 lines)
Note: The Herzberg Quiz is available for download from the Online
Campus.
Start writing here:
RANKING HERZBERG MOTIVATION-HYGIENE FACTORSPriority of Factors on the project teams job performance (the aggregated result
based on the individual team members rankings)
(Most influential first)
1. Possibility of Growth
2. Salary
3. Working conditions
4. Advancement
5. Recognition
6. Responsibility
7. Interpersonal Relations
8. Work itself
9. Company Policy
10. Security
11. Status
12. Achievement
Rate the following factors in the order of their actual influence on the project
team’s job performance.
Factor Description
Recognition Recognition could be from anyone – a superior, another
individual in management, a peer, or the general public.
It could be either positive or negative recognition.
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