OL 600 Milestone One Guidelines and Rubric
Employee Engagement and Retention
Overview: For this first milestone, due in Module Three, you will analyze HR strategic engagement initiatives for attracting, retaining, and rewarding employees.
The four critical element focus on talent acquisition, employee engagement and retention, learning and development, and total rewards.
Prompt: Refer to the chapter readings and module resources to support your responses to each of the four critical elements below. Carefully read and address
each critical element as written, using detailed and informative analysis that conveys critical thinking. The four critical elements are aligned to the people
technical competency within the HR knowledge domain.
Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed:
Talent Acquisition: Determine appropriate strategies for acquiring qualified talent, and explain how the strategies support organizational goals.
Employee Engagement and Retention: Determine appropriate employee engagement strategies and explain how this approach will increase retention.
Learning and Development: Determine learning and development opportunities aimed toward attracting and retaining qualified talent within the
organization.
Total Rewards: Identify appropriate total rewards strategies to increase employee retention, and explain how these strategies support the goals of the
organization.
Be sure to incorporate instructor feedback on this milestone into your final submission.
Rubric
Guidelines for Submission: This milestone must be submitted as a 3- to 4-page Word document with double spacing, 12-point Times New Roman font, and oneinch margins. Use the latest edition of the APA manual for formatting and citations.
Note that the grading rubric for this milestone submission is not identical to that of the final project. The Final Project Rubric will include an additional
“Exemplary” category that provides guidance as to how you can go above and beyond “Proficient” in your final submission.
Critical Elements Proficient (100%) Needs Improvement (70%) Not Evident (0%) Value
Talent Acquisition Determines appropriate strategies
for acquiring qualified talent and
explains how these strategies
support organizational goals, using
specific examples
Determines appropriate strategies
for acquiring qualified talent and
explains how these strategies
support organizational goals, using
specific examples, but explanation
is cursory or contains inaccuracies,
or examples are inappropriate
Does not determine appropriate
strategies for acquiring qualified
talent
22
Employee Engagement and
Retention
Determines appropriate employee
engagement strategies and explains
how these approaches will increase
retention, using specific examples
Determines appropriate employee
engagement strategies and explains
how these approaches will increase
retention, using specific examples,
but explanation is cursory or
contains inaccuracies, or examples
are inappropriate
Does not determine appropriate
employee engagement strategies
22
Learning and Development Determines learning and
development opportunities aimed
toward attracting and retaining
qualified talent within the
organization, using specific
examples
Determines learning and
development opportunities aimed
toward attracting and retaining
qualified talent within the
organization, using specific
examples, but examples are
inappropriate
Does not determine learning and
development opportunities aimed
toward attracting and retaining
qualified talent
22
Total Rewards Identifies appropriate total rewards
strategies to increase employee
retention and explains how these
strategies support the goals of an
organization, using specific
examples
Identifies appropriate total rewards
strategies to increase employee
retention and explains how these
strategies support the goals of an
organization, using specific
examples, but explanation is
cursory or contains inaccuracies, or
examples are inappropriate
Does not identify appropriate total
rewards strategies to increase
employee retention
22
Articulation of Response Submission has no major errors
related to citations, grammar,
spelling, syntax, or organization
Submission has major errors related
to citations, grammar, spelling,
syntax, or organization that
negatively impact readability and
articulation of main ideas
Submission has critical errors
related to citations, grammar,
spelling, syntax, or organization that
prevent understanding of ideas
12
Total 100%
