Develop Impactful & Sustainable Employee Retention Strategies for Donatos Pizza

• What is the company’s product and business model?
• Who are the target demographics and customer segments? 
• How does the company’s products/services meet their needs? What do customers say about the company? 
• Who are the company’s key competitors and how is the company differentiated from their competitors?
• What are the company’s employee retention goals? What resources are available to support employee retention?
• How would you describe the organizational structure? Which positions/employee categories are the focus of the retention strategy? 
• For each of these positions:
  1. What are the roles and responsibilities? What’s a typical day like?
  2. What are the required qualifications for these positions? Are there different ranks within a given position?
  3. How are persons in these positions managed? Who do they report to?
  4. What is the total compensation (direct, indirect) currently offered to paid employees?
  5. How are they evaluated? Is there room for upward mobility in the organization?
  6. What is the attrition and/or retention rate, and how are these measured?

Conduct secondary research on employee retention and “best practices” for retaining employees.

• • What are some metrics you find on retention or attrition? Which ones are appropriate for the given task? 
  • What do you find about the challenges of retaining these employees? What are the top reasons they leave? How, if at all, do these differ by:
    • Position within the organization?
    • Generational membership (e.g. Gen-Z, Millennial)
    • Other factors?
  • What do you find about what helps to retain employees? What are the top strategies or practices?
    • Position within the organization?
    • Generational membership (e.g. Gen-Z, Millennial)
    • Other factors?
  • What innovative, proven retention strategies used by competitors in the industry? Companies outside this industry?

Gather any existing data on employee satisfaction and engagement.

1. • 1. What do the results suggest about employee satisfaction and engagement?
     2. How does your research using secondary sources help you interpret/add meaning to the results of your survey?
     3. What benchmarks can you use to evaluate the status quo and set goals for improvement?

• What are your recommendations for boosting employee retention?
  1. Short-term, low-hanging, immediate strategies/tactics
  2. Long-term strategies/tactics
• What are the estimated costs associated with your recommendations?
• What are the key performance indicators you recommend using to assess the success of these strategies?