BUS 272 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Organizational Communication, Bloomberg Businessweek, American Psychological Association

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Business Administration
• Course: BUS 272
• Professor: Lieketen Brummelhuis

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Topic options for the team assignment: deloitte(cid:859)s atte(cid:373)pt to retai(cid:374) you(cid:374)g (cid:272)o(cid:374)sulta(cid:374)ts. As many other consulting companies, deloitte is struggling with keeping young consultants enthusiastic and motivated for their high demanding jobs. Working as a consultant for deloitte often means flying out to the client on sunday night, coming home late thursday night, and working in the office to connect with colleagues on friday. The long hours, demanding clients, and travel often exhaust employees after a couple of years. The job is fun, interesting, prestigious, and challenging when you come out of college or university, but it seems difficult to maintain this work-life style. Especially when employees start a family, they find it difficult to combine their non-work life with their consulting job. As a result, deloitte sees many talented young employees quit after two or three years. Deloitte asks your help as an external research-based consultant. They are open for changes in job design, reward systems, and leadership.