KEEPING SUZANNE CHALMERS I. INTRODUCTION CASE DESCRIPTION Suzanne Chalmers‚ one of API’s top software engineers‚ asked Thomas Chan‚ the vice-president of software engineering at Advanced Photonics‚ Inc. (API)‚ for a private meeting. Thomas Chan has seen this before‚ when good and valued employees asked for private meetings with him‚ to end by announcing that they wanted to quit. Reasons for leaving the company were anything from long hours‚ stressful deadlines‚ time needed to decompress
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Symptoms: High employee turnover at API Suzanne Chalmers‚ who is one of the top talents in her area of expertise‚ is also leaving the company for a start up firm Statement of Problem: What strategies should API use to improve employee retention? How can they motivate Suzanne Chalmers to stay as a software engineer with the Advanced Photonics Inc.? Analysis: There are a number of factors which contribute to Suzanne Chalmers’ decision to leave API despite the fact that she is valued by the organization
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[excluding References & Appendices Page] KEEPING SUZANNE CHALMERS Thomas Chan hung up the telephone and sighed. The vice president of software engineer¬ing at Advanced Photonics Inc. (API) had just spoken to Suzanne Chalmers‚ who called to arrange a meeting with Chan later that day. She didn’t say what the meeting was about‚ but Chan almost instinctively knew that Suzanne was going to quit after working at API for the past four years. Chalmers is a software engineer in Internet Protocol (IP)
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SYMPTOMS * Chalmers is not the first valued API employee who has requested a meeting and then announced her intention to leave the company. * Numerous employees who leave API are millionaires‚ from generous share options at API. * Many employees stated reasons such as stress‚ long hours‚ and disconnect from the family for leaving API‚ however; they will join a start-up company with some of the same problems. * Suzanne tells Thomas Chan that her job is becoming routine. PROBLEM The
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KEEPING SUZANNE CHALMERS INTRODUCTION Suzanne Chalmers‚ one of the API’s top talents software engineers‚ asked Thomas Chan‚ the vice-president of software engineering at Advanced Photonics‚ Inc. (API)‚ for a private meeting. Thomas Chan had been through this before when valued employees asked for private meetings which ended by announcing that they wanted to quit. Reasons for leaving the company were anything like the long hours‚ stressful deadline‚ need to decompress or get to spend time
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Background The Vice President‚ Thomas Chan‚ of API was summoned to a meeting with an employee‚ Suzanne Chalmers. Suzanne was one of API’s top talents in the fiber optics lights and was employed with them for four years. As soon as Chan spoke with Chalmers he had a preconception that the meeting would be about Suzanne wanting to resign as he has had numerous experiences of this in the company. His perception of the situation was that people leave the company because of money‚ even though they
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study “Keeping Suzanne Chalmers‚” Thomas Chan is the Vice President of the software engineering company Advanced Photonics Inc. Thomas has received a phone call from Suzanne Chalmers‚ an engineer from Internet Protocol‚ who has been working with Advanced Photonics Inc. on their fiber optic routers. Suzanne requested to arrange a meeting with Thomas‚ but left no details behind the reason for the meeting. Thomas‚ who has witnessed this kind of behavior before‚ believes that Suzanne intends to leave
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Summary of the Hunger Games The book Hunger Games‚ written by Suzanne Collins‚ is a fictional story based in the future about an event in which cities (districts) participate annually by the coercion of the capitol. Two representatives‚ or tributes‚ are randomly selected each year to representative their district in this dreadful event. The plot is focused on a girl in her late-teens and her battles and struggles in the annual event‚ which is called the Hunger Games‚ or just the Games. The Hunger
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Mariah Alves Honors English- Book report Mrs. Smith 8 March 2012 Mockingjay For my book report‚ I did a diorama using a simple shoe box. My book is called “Mockingjay”‚ by Suzanne Collins; it is the third book of “The Hunger Games. This book is about the girl on fire Katniss Everdeen‚ is in district 13‚ with her mother and her sister‚ Prim‚ along with Gale. Peeta’s family is dead‚ along with everyone in district 12 who didn’t escape to 13. Peeta is captured by the capital and is being tortured;
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The Hunger Games Book Review The adventurous yet sensitive story about a teenager in‚ The Hunger Games‚ by Suzanne Collins‚ portrays a girl facing many obstacles‚ she is put in many scenarios that could put her life in danger. Katniss is a 16 year old girl living with her mother and younger sister in District 12. Every year‚ there is an event called‚ The Hunger Games‚ where you must survive to win. When Katniss’s sister is chosen to participate‚ she decides to take her sister’s place. The Hunger
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