Client Name

Matco Foods Limited

Faculty Advisor

Dr. Nasir A. Afghan

SBS Thought Leadership Areas

Other

SBS Thought Leadership Area Justification

The selected thought leadership area, Digitization and Employee Benefits Awareness, aligns with the ELP by addressing real organizational challenges through data driven insights and practical recommendations. It reflects the ELP’s core objective of applying experiential learning to improve employee engagement, transparency, and access to benefits. By conducting internal interviews and benchmarking against industry leaders, the project identifies digital gaps and proposes scalable solutions such as interactive tools and benefit access platforms. This alignment demonstrates applied leadership by promoting employee centric, tech enabled reforms that support Matco’s long term growth and strategic goals.

Aligned SDGs

GOAL 3: Good Health and Well-being

Aligned SDGs Justification

The selected Sustainable Development Goal, Good Health and Well Being (SDG 3), aligns closely with our ELP by focusing on employee wellness, mental health, and work life balance at Matco Foods. Through internal interviews and external benchmarking, the project identified the importance of organizational support in promoting psychological safety, reducing burnout, and encouraging healthy workplace practices. Initiatives like wellness programs, emotional support systems, and Kahoot based engagement activities reinforce a culture that prioritizes well being. By proposing structured improvements in awareness, accessibility, and digital support for employee benefits, the ELP actively contributes to SDG 3 within the workplace context.

NDA

No

Abstract

This Experiential Learning Project (ELP) focuses on enhancing employee satisfaction, engagement, and organizational transparency at Matco Foods through the lens of digitization and employee benefits awareness. The project aims to evaluate how well current benefits, wellness initiatives, and training opportunities are communicated, accessed, and experienced by employees across different departments. By conducting detailed internal interviews and gathering qualitative data, the team identified inconsistencies in benefit accessibility, gaps in awareness of available support systems, and concerns around fairness and standardization of policies. To strengthen the analysis, benchmarking was conducted with external organizations such as Shan Foods, National Foods, and L’Oréal, which provided comparative insights on structured wellness programs, communication practices, and people centric digital platforms.

The ELP introduced an interactive Kahoot based game to improve internal benefit awareness and employee engagement in a fun and accessible way, with reward based incentives to encourage participation. This initiative demonstrated how simple digital tools can boost knowledge sharing and cultural involvement. Additionally, the project proposed scalable improvements such as centralized digital benefit dashboards, real time feedback mechanisms, and the use of surveys and training portals to close information gaps and improve employee experience.

The ELP aligns with Sustainable Development Goal 3: Good Health and Well Being by emphasizing the importance of emotional support, mental health accessibility, work life balance, and a responsive wellness culture. The findings and recommendations contribute directly to Matco’s long term strategy of becoming a more employee driven, digitally responsive organization. By identifying areas of improvement and offering implementable, data informed solutions, the project showcases how experiential learning can create measurable impact on organizational development and employee wellbeing.

Document Type

Restricted Access

Document Name for Citation

Experiential Learning Project

Notes

In addition to the written analysis, this project produced two practical deliverables: a fully functional Excel-based HR analytics dashboard that visualizes key employee metrics and an interactive Kahoot quiz designed to boost benefits awareness and engagement across Matco Foods. Both tools were developed exclusively for this Experiential Learning Project, without external funding, and were successfully piloted with volunteer staff members during May–June 2025.

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