Case #6 WORTHINGTON INDUSTRIES Case summary The Worthington steel company founded 1955, essentially invented the steel processing industry as it exist today. The company, head quartered in Columbus, Ohio, operated 53 plants in 11 country and boasted 7.500 employees. John H. McConnell founded the company in 1955. An established leader with more than 1.000 customers. Worthington steel served a broad range of markets, including automotive, lawn and garden, construction, hard were, furniture,
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contributions. 2. ___________ bridge the gap between organizational objectives and individual expectations and aspirations. A. Financial systems B. Corporate compensation systems C. Employment practices D. Rewards Correct: The Correct Answer is: D. Organizational reward systems and compensation systems design involves working out tradeoffs among somewhat seriously-conflicting objectives. 3. Reviews of both laboratory and field tests of _____________ are quite consistent
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1. Define the three different types of Piece Rates. Answer: 1) Straight Piece rate 2) Piece rates with guaranteed time rates and 3) Differential Piece rates Straight Piece rate In this method payment is made on the basis of affixed amount per fixed units produced without regard to the time taken Earnings = Number of units x rate per unit. Piece rates with guaranteed time rates In this system the payment is at the time rates but adjusted to the cost of living. Merit awards for personal
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Human Resources Management This paper will examine human resource strategies, policies and practices and how they relate to the JetBlue Airways case: Starting from Scratch, by Jody Hoffer Gittell and Charles O’Reilly, 2001. We will identify national equal employment opportunity laws that impact JetBlue's hiring practices. We will take a look at their internal and external recruitment methods, personnel selection process’, and their use of the 360-degree feedback evaluation as a performance appraisal
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REFERENCES 1. Ashton, Deborah. "What HR Can Do to Fix the Gender Pay Gap." Harvard Business Review. Harvard Business Review, 02 Dec. 2014. Web. 08 Oct. 2015. 2. What We're Watching in the Gender Wage Gap. (2010, September 1). Retrieved October 8, 2015. 3. Neale, M. (2015, June 29). More Reasons Women Need to Negotiate Their Salaries. Retrieved October 8, 2015. 4. Maatz, L. (2014, April 5). The Awful Truth Behind the Gender Gap. Retrieved October 9, 2015. 5. Smith, K. (2014, April 10). The Gender
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A Study of pay Inequity between Genders Abstract As long as an American woman is putting in the same amount of hours with the same qualifications and experience in the same occupation as an American male, and yet taking home a wage that is any lower, she is not being treated fairly as an equal. Contrary to many arguments, it is unquestionable that a wage gap exists, and while there are various ideas as to the most probable cause, there is no reason why this gap should continue to go uncorrected
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BANGLADESH LABOUR LAW 2006-(RMG SECTOR) Table of Contents Page No. PART 1: WORKING CONDITIONS ..........................................................................................1 1.1 WAGES...............................................................................................................................4 1.1.1 Definition ................................................................................................................. 4 1.1.2 Persons responsible for the payment
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Practitioner’s Guide to Total Rewards and Compensation By: Alix Echeverri April 2013 Table of Contents Executive Summary 5 1. Job Analysis 6 1.1 Definition of the key ingredient/activity 6 1.2 Rationale of its importance 6 1.3 Potential impact on organizational outcomes 7 1.4 Organizational symptoms that suggest that the function is not being performed correctly 7 1.5 Key descriptive models 8 Figure 1.1 – Decisions in Designing Job Analysis 9 1.6 Key steps in executing the prescribed
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the American labor movement in the 1990s, < (1990’s?) (reference: William P. Quigley, ‘A Fair Day’s Pay for a Fair Day’s Work’: Time to Raise and Index the Minimum Wage, 27 ST. MARY’S L.J. 513, 544 n.141 (1996)) but for most Americans, “fair” compensation means so much more than salary. Employee benefits play a crucial role in the American labor market, and the benefits that an organization offers employees has an immense impact on its hiring ability, turnover rate, and employee satisfaction and
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Discriminatory Wage Gap “The gap between the median wage for a man and that of a woman in 2010 was $10,784.00 per year. The gender wage gap gets larger with age and builds up over time. But for women in the final five years of their careers before retirement, the wage gap grows to a whopping $14,352.00. Over a 40-year career, the average woman will lose $431,000.00 to the gender wage gap” (Cooper 1). Does this seem fair? It seems quite obvious to the common observer that there should be equal pay
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