peer review on the following essay and answer these questions:

Global Comments (your peer review should focus on these)

• What is the paper's thesis?
• Are there some sources the author could have used to support his or her points more?
• Play devil's advocate. What sources would you quote to counter the paper's argument?
• Do you feel like the paper was misreading the points of any of the authors, for example, perhaps taking them out of context?
• Did the author properly set up the debate? Did the author leave out any voices he or she might want to address?
• Did you feel lost in the paper at any time? If so, what did you find confusing?
• Are there any questions about the paper's argument that popped into your mind that you thought the paper could address?
• Did the paper feel organized? Did you feel guided through the paper or did it feel like you had to figure out where it was going? Review the handout on metadiscourse from Week #2 and evaluate how well the paper incorporated this to guide you through the paper.
• What parts of the argument did you feel were the strongest?
• Does conclusion do the job they are supposed to do?

Specific Concerns (comment on these sparingly)

• Is the paper using its chosen citation style correctly?
• Are there patterns of grammar or spelling mistakes?
• Is the tone and language of the paper formal enough for academic writing?

Optimizing Staff

Why do some businesses fail while others succeed? The keys to success are in the workforce. The need to have a well-trained staff that is best optimized for company needs is key to a successful business. As described in "Effective Staffing Takes a Village: Creating the Staffing Ecosystem," having employees trained to be effective and have an optimal schedule that best suits the needs of the company is needed for a company's success. When staff are well-trained, which is shown in their performance, employee retention increases (Nikitan). But how can a business help employee performance to increase retention? By optimizing a schedule to best suit a company, its important to understand the number of employees needed for a well-functioning business. Not only is it important to ensure employees are well-trained, it's also important to ensure employees have job satisfaction. Having employees happy to work at a company is key to a successful business as it improves retention of great employees. To help with job satisfaction, having a workplace culture that cultivates a friendly and inviting environment (Hultman). To have a successful business, its essential to have happy and well-trained employees with a schedule that makes the best use of their employees.

In "Effective Staffing Takes a Village: Creating the Staffing Ecosystem," it's discusses issues surrounding hospital staff and their schedules. Hospitals that thrive have a well-trained staff with an optimized schedule.To achieve such success, the hospital needed to optimize how it's staffed and how it schedules its employees which is broken down into two phases. Phase one is ensuring there is enough staff on hand at any given moment to deal with current and future patients (60). This ensures that if there's an influx of patients, there will be staff available to help. While phase two is to ensure proper scheduling that allows the hospital to run smoothly with the right type of trained employees on at a given time (60). Such as having certain types of doctors or nurses on call or other administrative employees needed at a certain time. This concept can be translated into other forms of business too. Phase one for other businesses involve having enough employees to handle their customers or clients of that the business deals with and are trained to deal with them. Phase two for other businesses involve ensuring the right type of employee (trained or educated with certain degrees or certificates) is scheduled when needed for current and future needs are met. For businesses, the ultimate goal is to ensure the businesses objectives are met while minimizing costs. Using the hospital discussed in this article it can be concluded that by having well-trained employees with schedules that optimizes the hospitals resources, the objectives of the hospital can be met and it'll minimize costs. Not only can well-trained staff help meet the objectives of a business, it can also help with employee retention.

In the article, "Based on Talent Management as Employee Performance optimization by Strengthening Employee Retention Aspect," it discusses how a "good talent management will improve employee performance to be optimal and consistent retention will increase optimal employee performance." This article discusses a distribution company that reinforces the value having great employees in management positions, which in turn gets employees under that management to stay and their performance to increase (Hermawati). In business, when the employees in a management position treat their subordinates well, it'll lead to employees staying in their position while also improving the subordinates overall performance. Another way to ensure employee retention is by aiming for job satisfaction for employees.

Discussed in the article, "Implementation of Compensation Policy and Strengthening Employee Competency Towards Optimization of Employee Job Satisfaction," the authors describe the effect of compensation and competence have on job satisfaction. In the study described in the article, it was concluded that while there isn't a significant correlation between competence and compensation on job satisfaction there is still a positive relationship that it still contributes to job satisfaction (Maryani). But job satisfaction doesn't only have to be limited to compensation and competence. Employees that are happy at their workplace can be optimized for the company to meet and exceed their objectives. Not only is it essential to have great employees in management positions, it's also important to cultivate a friendly and approachable workplace culture.

While employers always want to ensure that their employees aren't wasting time, it's also important to foster a workplace culture that cultivates the best employees while still being approachable. While not every workplace can be like a funhouse, workplace cultures should create a atmosphere where employees are comfortable to work and achieve the company's goals. Discussed in the article "Building a Culture of Employee Optimization," it discusses how workplace cultures affect the performance of employees. It was found that company's need "engagement, full employeeutilization, employee satisfaction, growth and development opportunities, recognition for accomplishments, flexibility and work/life balance, and positive work environment" are needed for workplace culture (Hultman). Overall, when a workplace reinforces an environment that promotes employees to do their best, the result is having employees that strive to do their best for the company.

If employees are happy and well-trained with schedules which help promote the company's objectives, businesses succeed. For employees to be happy, they need a friendly and efficient workplace culture, have job satisfaction, and increase in retention. By having employees that are trained properly and scheduled well to meet the company's needs, they'll succeed.

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Optimizing Staff

Why do some businesses fail while others succeed? The keys to success are in the workforce. The need to have a well-trained staff that is best optimized for company needs is key to a successful business. As described in "Effective Staffing Takes a Village: Creating the Staffing Ecosystem," having employees trained to be effective and have an optimal schedule that best suits the needs of the company is needed for a company's success. When staff are well-trained, which is shown in their performance, employee retention increases (Nikitan). But how can a business help employee performance to increase retention? By optimizing a schedule to best suit a company, its important to understand the number of employees needed for a well-functioning business. Not only is it important to ensure employees are well-trained, it's also important to ensure employees have job satisfaction. Having employees happy to work at a company is key to a successful business as it improves retention of great employees. To help with job satisfaction, having a workplace culture that cultivates a friendly and inviting environment (Hultman). To have a successful business, its essential to have happy and well-trained employees with a schedule that makes the best use of their employees.

In "Effective Staffing Takes a Village: Creating the Staffing Ecosystem," it's discusses issues surrounding hospital staff and their schedules. Hospitals that thrive have a well-trained staff with an optimized schedule.To achieve such success, the hospital needed to optimize how it's staffed and how it schedules its employees which is broken down into two phases. Phase one is ensuring there is enough staff on hand at any given moment to deal with current and future patients (60). This ensures that if there's an influx of patients, there will be staff available to help. While phase two is to ensure proper scheduling that allows the hospital to run smoothly with the right type of trained employees on at a given time (60). Such as having certain types of doctors or nurses on call or other administrative employees needed at a certain time. This concept can be translated into other forms of business too. Phase one for other businesses involve having enough employees to handle their customers or clients of that the business deals with and are trained to deal with them. Phase two for other businesses involve ensuring the right type of employee (trained or educated with certain degrees or certificates) is scheduled when needed for current and future needs are met. For businesses, the ultimate goal is to ensure the businesses objectives are met while minimizing costs. Using the hospital discussed in this article it can be concluded that by having well-trained employees with schedules that optimizes the hospitals resources, the objectives of the hospital can be met and it'll minimize costs. Not only can well-trained staff help meet the objectives of a business, it can also help with employee retention.

In the article, "Based on Talent Management as Employee Performance optimization by Strengthening Employee Retention Aspect," it discusses how a "good talent management will improve employee performance to be optimal and consistent retention will increase optimal employee performance." This article discusses a distribution company that reinforces the value having great employees in management positions, which in turn gets employees under that management to stay and their performance to increase (Hermawati). In business, when the employees in a management position treat their subordinates well, it'll lead to employees staying in their position while also improving the subordinates overall performance. Another way to ensure employee retention is by aiming for job satisfaction for employees.

Discussed in the article, "Implementation of Compensation Policy and Strengthening Employee Competency Towards Optimization of Employee Job Satisfaction," the authors describe the effect of compensation and competence have on job satisfaction. In the study described in the article, it was concluded that while there isn't a significant correlation between competence and compensation on job satisfaction there is still a positive relationship that it still contributes to job satisfaction (Maryani). But job satisfaction doesn't only have to be limited to compensation and competence. Employees that are happy at their workplace can be optimized for the company to meet and exceed their objectives. Not only is it essential to have great employees in management positions, it's also important to cultivate a friendly and approachable workplace culture.

While employers always want to ensure that their employees aren't wasting time, it's also important to foster a workplace culture that cultivates the best employees while still being approachable. While not every workplace can be like a funhouse, workplace cultures should create a atmosphere where employees are comfortable to work and achieve the company's goals. Discussed in the article "Building a Culture of Employee Optimization," it discusses how workplace cultures affect the performance of employees. It was found that company's need "engagement, full employeeutilization, employee satisfaction, growth and development opportunities, recognition for accomplishments, flexibility and work/life balance, and positive work environment" are needed for workplace culture (Hultman). Overall, when a workplace reinforces an environment that promotes employees to do their best, the result is having employees that strive to do their best for the company.

If employees are happy and well-trained with schedules which help promote the company's objectives, businesses succeed. For employees to be happy, they need a friendly and efficient workplace culture, have job satisfaction, and increase in retention. By having employees that are trained properly and scheduled well to meet the company's needs, they'll succeed.

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