Sharon: Please read my feedback and revise your Topic Proposal Form accordingly. Title it as Topic Proposal Rev 1. Post as soon as possible in the Week One Dropbox and let me know when you post it. I hope this feedback is helpful.
Dr. Gurley

Topic Proposal Form
Date
09/03/14
Your Name
Sharon Story
Plan (1 or 2)
Plan 1
Name of Your Organization and Contact Person if Plan 1 is chosen (if confidential you may email this info to me)
Riverside Casino and Golf Resort / Stacy Benson
Topic Title
Performance Reviews NO. This title won’t work.
What about performance reviews? If you were doing a simple research paper you could write about performance reviews based on research alone. In this Sr Paper you must determine the state of the art based on your Literature Review. Then you will give the background of the problem and discuss it. This must all lead to two Courses of Action (COAs; solutions) that are tied to your title and problem. You need a “product” such as a process, a plan, a strategy, a program – something that can be recommended and implemented.

Problem Statement (if not finalized post a draft – focus on the "pain.")
The problem is that after initial training employees are not being reviewed for current performance.
Suggest that after this initial statement you add something more about the problem. Brief Topic Overview
The casino is experiencing a high turnover rate of employees because after their initial training they are put on the floor without any further review. In the handbook employees are supposed to have a review after 90 days but they are not being implemented. This leaves the casino with under qualified employees that eventually terminate their employment due to not feeling able to meet the high demands. The solution to this problem, if it is the problem, is simple. Just IMPLEMENT PERFORMANCE REVIEWS. You can see this right off, so what will you find in your research that is different? You need to look into the problem and find out what’s really going on. Maybe selection is poor. Maybe training is not preparing the new employees. Maybe there is a hostile work environment. Maybe it’s something else. I don’t think it is because they aren’t being reviewed. Have you talked with anyone at the casino about this? I suggest you consider developing something like this for your project: A MENTORING PROGRAM FOR NEW EMPLOYEES AT RIVERSIDE CASINO. (It doesn’t have to be mentoring if you prefer something else.) You can research mentoring programs and find what other organizations are doing, even organizations out of the industry. This would occur in your Literature Review, you will write about it and cite the sources. The research information would lead you so two good solutions, once of which you would recommend for implementation. You will have a firm foundation for COAs when based on research.
It appears that you need to read through the documents provided for this class and get a view of what you need to do.
Plan 1
To implement job shadowing into the interview process as a second interview during peak hours. This would help show the job candidate the high pace environment.
Plan 2
The employees have a 2 week training period and then are left alone until 90 days. I think that the review should be done at the 30 day mark to show them where their weak and strong areas. To me 90 days is too long to let a new employee go without being corrected especially in the casino environment where they are handling money and could be losing money by either incorrect handling or holding up the process. After the 90 days if the employee has not met at least 80% of the needed improvements then they should be terminated.