Staffing Trends Paper

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Upon compiling and analyzing employee data including, demographics, salaries, education, and years of service several trends have been identified. These trends can be used by the company both to improve in areas that they are struggling and to show areas that they are excelling in. The most apparent trend found was the lack of diversity in terms of gender, level of education, and race. Based on the data it is clear that the majority of the employees are white, males, with a high school education. Being that the company strives for diversity, in the future they should move towards hiring more females and more minorities (in terms of race). Having a diverse group of employees will promote high level thinking and collaboration internally.
Another prominent finding was that there is nearly an even amount of employees divided between the three regions. This implies that none of the three regions undergo staffing issues which portrays strong management in all three regions. One final finding was that the standard deviation of employee salaries was large. This is not necessarily a bad thing and can be attributed to the majority of employees being in working class roles such as a machine worker and Gen Shop worker; while there is only one CEO, CFO, …show more content…

Hiring people with higher education levels could decrease the number employees necessary which could in turn allow the company to increase salaries. Increasing the salaries of the lower paid employees would decrease the standard deviation of employee salaries. Moving forward, I recommend that the organization lives up to their values of having a diverse organization. This should include the hiring of minorities and women, as well as college graduates. The salary standard deviation will continue to shrink if more college graduates are hired, thus promoting a fair and diverse work

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