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Reflect on your employment history. Were there times you felt you did not receive the pay you felt you were entitled? Perhaps you did work outside your job description, performed work off the clock, or felt you were not paid commensurate with your skill level or your coworkers’ pay. Did or could you have taken any steps to address the issue? Share your thoughts on the experience. Was there anything different you feel the employer could or should have done?
Your CEO has come to you as the HR Director and tasked you with developing a different compensation package for employees. The current model is not working. The CEO is asking you to give her a briefing on describing the legal issues that influence compensation, describe the challenges in setting executive compensation levels and finally discuss the advantages and disadvantages of pay for performance or incentive pay and the conditions under which it might be most successful.
You are the HR Director for a large manufacturing organization that supports the auto industry. You have over 500 employees. You have gotten word that they are threatening to organize. Your management team is wanting you to put a presentation to them to get them up to speed about what they are facing and what can be done. Explain the reasons why employees form and join unions. What if anything can management do to convince the workforce to not unionize? What could management have done and what should they do in the future as far as being proactive in managing a union-free environment.
For this assignment, you will choose TWO of the following discussion questions.
1. What can be done to motivate companies to evaluate training programs?
2. What do threats to validity have to do with training evaluation? Identify internal and external threats to validity. Are internal and external threats similar?
Explain.
3. What are results outcomes? Why do you think most organizations don’t use results outcomes to evaluate their training programs?
Discuss how technological tools, such as O*NET and HR databases, benefit human resource managers.
How can age be a BFOQ? Provide specific examples in your answer.
What is the purpose of the EEOC? What is the relationship between Title VII and the EEOC?
What is the staffing function of human resource management? Identify and discuss what staffing involves.
Discuss how and why you should avoid office politics. This is not talking about political discussions but internal office politics.
Scenario:
You are an HR professional in your private-sector organization.
When your physical retail chain organization merged two years ago with a firm that specializes in online apparel retailing, your company had to hire 150 employees to keep up with growth. This brought your employee count to 250.
Up until the merger, your company paid top market rate, but once the merger took place the company adopted the merging company’s plan where pay was based 20% below market value. The base pay plan now in place is ineffective for the type of company yours has become, where 65-70% of your sales are online.
What role should job evaluation, market pricing, and pay survey data play in your efforts to develop a new base pay plan for your workforce? Your boss has asked you to come up with at least six sources useful for the top managers in your organization to learn about these processes.
In this assignment you will incorporate the most effective sources of information possible, giving special attention to the quality of sources utilized for the purpose intended. Find at least two valid sources of information for each of the three topics listed below.
Analyze both references for each category and select the one from each category that you think is the most appropriate reference for this assignment. In the end you will have three references to create this presentation for. The three categories are:
1. Job Evaluation: A formal, systematic means to identify the relative worth of jobs within your firm.
2. Market Pricing: Using market data to identify the relative value of jobs based on what other employers pay for similar jobs.
3. Pay Surveys: Collection of data on compensation rates for workers performing similar jobs in other organizations.
Create a PowerPoint presentation of at least 13 slides (representing the topics a, b, c, and d below and a cover slide) for each of the three sources you identified above. Discuss:
a. How the term specifically relates to the concept of total rewards,
b. The criteria you applied to determine that each source was appropriate to educate your company managers.
c. Why each source was chosen (relevance of the info), and
d. Any ethical or legal issues that should be considered.