Topic: Employee Satisfaction and Value Chain Management

You will consider the human resource aspects and enablers of value chain management. It is widely accepted there is a distinct, measurable, and positive relationship between employee satisfaction and customer satisfaction. In value chain management, the goal of creating customer value for the organization includes customer delight (exceeding customer satisfaction) and profitability. Organizational leadership plays a key role in establishing programs, policies, and process that enable ongoing employee satisfaction.

Directions

1. Assume you are working in a role as a decision-making leader. You are tasked with the responsibility to create employee satisfaction programs and processes related to the following human resources enablers. Additionally, address how could you use these human resource enablers to improve employee satisfaction during times of change?
   • People and Culture
   • The Three People Traits: Knowledge, Skills, and Beliefs
   • People and Trust
2. No references are required for this Unit 6 Discussion, but if you do use source material, apply no more than one APA formatted reference and citation per paragraph and use APA in-text citation within the response and list the applied reference(s) at the end of the response using APA formatting.