NetFilms Case Study

You work in HR for a small but growing firm called NetFilms. Your job is to develop strategies hire, retain, and manage the performance of employees. The company has been struggling with retaining computer scientists. The historical turnover rate after $6$ months on the job is $38\%,$ but the turnover rate has alarmingly climbed to $67\%$ in recent months.

You have a hunch that one problem contributing to the high turnover rate is low job engagement. Although NetFilms has emphasized the company as having $$a thrilling work environment$$ and being a place where $$computer scientists get to work on innovative projects every day,$$ the reality is that the work of computer scientists at NetFilms is relatively routine and boring.

You think that implementing a job enrichment program might help boost job engagement and help solve the high$-$turnover problem. Specifically, as part of this program, you wish to trial allowing employees to spend $20\%$ of their time on $$self$-$directed$$ work initiatives.

Design one quasi$-$experiment and one true experiment to test the impact of this new job enrichment program $($IV$)$ on the turnover rate $($DV$)$ at NetFilms. List the key advantages and disadvantages to each experimental approach. Assume you have your boss$$ support and reasonable access to resources to conduct your experiment.