Your company has reaped the benefits of having long-term, tenured employees, but many of them are now approaching retirement. It is anticipated that approximately 20% of the company's workforce will retire in the next 3 to 5 years. In reviewing the remaining workforce through HR planning efforts, you have become aware of work-life balance issues that need to be reviewed and addressed. The company president has requested that you prepare a retention plan outlining these issues as well as ways to address them.  

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A. What steps will you take to identify key priorities in the work-life balance issues?

B. How will you present a business case to gain management support for addressing those issues in order to help retain existing workers and to fill the positions vacated by retiring employees?