Assignment 1
Prepare a paper analyzing the role of Macro Environmental
Analysis and Perceived Task Environment at your workplace, or an organization
of your choice. In the paper, discuss one trend initiator from each STEEP
category and explain how each one impacts the development of organizational,
human resource, and compensation strategies at the organization you selected.
Then, evaluate current strategies and discuss whether you believe MEA and PTE
have influenced the organization’s pay philosophy and pay structure, or if you
believe the current strategies should be revised to align with the Macro
Environmental Analysis you performed. Support your analysis with at least two
recent (2005-present) scholarly sources on MEA.
•The analysis should be presented in APA format.
•The analysis should be 5-7 pages in length, excluding the
title page and reference list.
•The “Applied Assignments Scoring Rubric” can be found in
Doc Sharing.
Submit this assignment to the Dropbox no later than Sunday
11:59 PM EST/EDT. (This Dropbox basket is linked to Turnitin.)
Module 2 Applied
Assignment 2
Prepare a paper that describes the major employee groups
(exempt and non-exempt) that make up an organization. Compare and contrast the
two as defined by the FLSA.
•The paper should be presented in an APA format.
•The paper should be 2-3 pages in length, excluding the
title page and reference list.
•The “Applied Assignments Scoring Rubric” can be found in
Doc Sharing.
Submit this assignment to the Dropbox no later than Sunday
11:59 PM EST/EDT. (This Dropbox basket is linked to Turnitin.)
Module 3 Applied
Assignment 3
Prepare a paper that explains the strategic differences
between pay for performance and pay for knowledge systems. Include an analysis
of how various pay plans used for teams align with pay for performance and pay
for knowledge systems.
•The paper should be presented in an APA format.
•The paper should be 4-6 pages in length, excluding the
title page and reference list.
•The Applied Assignments Scoring Rubric can be found in Doc
Sharing.
Submit this assignment to the Dropbox no later than Sunday
11:59 PM EST/EDT. (This Dropbox basket is linked to Turnitin.)
Module 5 Applied
Assignment 4
Prepare a paper that presents the 5-step process for
constructing a pay structure. The paper should present the steps in
chronological order and explain the main objective of each step, as well as
describe the key considerations of each. Use at least two recent articles (not
older than 5 years) to inform your work in addition to the Martochhio textbook.
•The analysis should be presented in an APA format.
•The analysis should be 4-5 pages in length, excluding the
title page and reference list.
•The “Applied Assignments Scoring Rubric” can be found in
Doc Sharing.
Submit this assignment to the Dropbox no later than Sunday
11:59 PM EST/EDT. (This Dropbox basket is linked to Turnitin.)
Module 6 Applied
Assignment 5
Imagine you are designing an incentive plan for your
organization’s (or an organization of your choice) middle managers. Create both
short-term and long-term incentives, explaining why you feel they will be
motivating to middle-managers. Why does this group require separate
consideration?
•The analysis should be presented in an APA format.
•The analysis should be 3-4 pages in length, excluding the
title page and reference list.
•The “Applied Assignments Scoring Rubric” can be found in
Doc Sharing.
Submit this assignment to the Dropbox no later than Sunday
11:59 PM EST/EDT. (This Dropbox basket is linked to Turnitin.)
Module 8 Applied
Assignment 6
Read the North American Expansion for Threads Apparel case
study on page 352 in the Martocchio text, and then prepare a 2-3 page paper
that presents your analysis of the case by answering both questions. APA is not
required for this paper.
Submit this assignment to the Dropbox no later than Sunday
11:59 PM EST/EDT. (This Dropbox basket is linked to Turnitin.)
Module 3 Labor
Legislation Presentation
In Module 1, you selected one piece of protective labor
legislation to study.
In Module 2 you prepared and submitted a PowerPoint
presentation on that piece of legislation that defines it, explains the
background of the law (the civil issues that culminated in its passage), the
intention of the law, its basic provisions, and impact on an organization’s
compensation structure/system or specific components of the compensation
system.
Please post that presentation here by 11:59 PM Monday night.
(The presentation should be between 7 and 10 slides in length, not including
title slide and reference slide.)
Then, review all of the presentations posted in this forum.
Select one (1) and respond to that classmate by 11:59 PM Thursday night by
asking one question about the legislation that will deepen your understanding
of its background, its implications for your industry, or the future of the
legislation. Be sure your question is open-ended so that your classmate will be
able to provide a substantive response.
Lastly, reply to the question asked about your own
presentation by 11:59 PM Sunday night.
Module 7 Compensation
Project Draft
One member of each team will post a draft of the team’s
entire project to this Discussion Board. Then, each student will provide
feedback to each of the other teams about their projects, including suggestions
for improving their documents.
