Malik's first day as a new manager ended up more challenging than he expected. While having to adjust to a new workplace and new colleagues, he had an interesting management challenge thrown at him. Toward the end of the day, one of his employees came to him, looking frustrated and exhausted. Malik had heard that this employee was going to be one of his best, a high-potential employee who would be a great asset. On this day, the employee did not look to be an asset to anyone. Without providing much history or detail, this employee explained to Malik that she is planning to quit her job. She is exhausted and frustrated, she explains because the work seems to be at once too much and too little. She feels overworked, but at the same time, she does not feel any excitement about her work. She doesn't feel she is being challenged to learn skills that will help her to reach the ultimate goal of owning her own business. Unfortunately, Malik has to leave for the day before you can get more information. What should he do

In this case, the ideal would be for the new manager Malik to develop an action plan so that he could retain the employee that everyone referred to as one of the best in the company and with high potential.

When the employee exposes his or her dissatisfactions with the job to the manager, such as exhaustion and frustration, the manager must conduct an in-depth analysis of the causes of the employee's problem. It is important to know that exhaustion can be caused by overwork and frustration due to lack of motivation and challenges at work.

The ideal, therefore, would be for Malik to find a strategy to make the exemplary employee's work more flexible and thus his tasks would become more dynamic and facilitated as much as possible, which would assist in the employee's productivity and motivation.

It would also be ideal to institute new work challenges for employees with appropriate training and work redesign, so that their problems are reduced and their appreciation and satisfaction with their work is increased.