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HRM3110 – Compensating Human Resources

Compensation Plan Project Instructions – Part II

Purpose:

Through the completion of the three-part Compensation Plan Project, students will create a compensation plan for a position in a hypothetical organization. To be effective, they will evaluate the strategic implications various compensation philosophies have on an organization. They will also analyze the various forms of employee benefits and the key components of constructing a benefits compensation plan. In addition, students will evaluate the impact the Fair Labor Standards Act (FSLA) and other laws have on the compensation practices of an organization.

Part II: Pay Structure and Pay Level

· Continuing with the same position discussed in Part I of this project, determine the pay structure best-suited for this position in the hypothetical organization.

· (300-400 words) Using the job-based structure, construct a job evaluation process:

· Establish the purpose of using a job evaluation process for that position.

· Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of the three methods of job evaluation: ranking, classification, and point.

· Assuming you will use a job-based structure, select a method of job evaluation that is best suited for the position in question and outline the steps you need to execute it successfully.

· Describe who you would involve in the process and be sure to include why and to what extent.

· (300-400 words) Using the person-based structure, examine the skill-based and competency approaches:

· Establish the purpose of using a person-based evaluation for that position.

· Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of skill-based versus competency approaches.

· Assuming you will use a person-based structure, select a method of evaluation (either skill-based or competency) that is best suited for the position in question and outline the steps you need to execute it successfully.

· (100-150 words) Based on the work just completed on job-based and person-based structures, determine which pay structure is best for the position in question and substantiate your reason for that selection.

· Next, determine the pay level best-suited for this position in the hypothetical organization.

· (300-400 words) Discuss the factors important for external competitiveness for this position. Remain specific to your position and company and include in your discussion such topics as:

· Labor market, labor demand, labor supply, and ability to pay.

· Organization factors

· Relevant markets

· Competitive pay policies – such as lead, match, lag, hybrid, employer of choice

· (300-400 words) Determine externally competitive pay levels and structures. Again, remain specific to your selection position and company. Include how you will utilize the following:

· Defining the purpose of the survey

· Selecting relevant market competitors

· Designing the survey

· Things to consider when interpreting the survey results

· How you will determine the pay-policy line

· Advantages and disadvantages of grades, ranges, and broadbanding

· (100-150 words) Based on the work just completed on pay levels and structures, describe how you will reconcile any difference between the internal and external standards in order to move forward with a recommendation for the position in question.

Format:

Each section of the Compensation Plan Project should be prepared in APA format including a title page, section headers, in-text citations, and a reference page. A minimum of three professional and reputable sources are required for this section of the project.

Part II of this project will be 3-4 pages of body (1400-1900 words) plus title page and reference page.

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COMPENSATION PLAN

Rischonda Forsythe

Baker College

March 28, 2021

Compensation Plan

Talx-Mart is an international Supermarket dealing in the manufacture and assembling of food products, machine operations, and electrical equipment (Hasanov, 2020). Due to the advancement of technologies, the company has transformed its customer relationship due to ease of reachability in customers. Apart from having retailed and wholesale locally, Walmart has capitalized on expanding many branches in over 50 countries globally. 

From its small beginnings of Walmart in the 1960s, the company only had small retail outlets that later developed into a large organization with robust capabilities. By its low pricing strategy, Walmart has established an employer criterion from its privatization networks (Bank-Muñoz, 2017). However, the company faces criticism from labor issues, gender inequality, and the drive of quality staff to work in foreign companies. Talx-Mart deals primarily in food products and other electrical equipment in their stores. Further, the organization also offers automobile and data services to many clients that improve their competitive advantage in the business market. 

Talx-Mart was developed in 1962 on the principle of economies of scale. Customer preferences have been the ideological inclination in boosting the company’s entrance to the international markets. Currently, it has over 40,000 employees and over 10,000 workers by the year 2020 in over 30 countries. Talx-Mart’s goal is to become the best supermarket in the international business sphere. Despite having success since the 1990s, its main objectives include the development of a customer-relationship company. Further, the organization aims in establishing new franchises overseas to expand and increase their revenues from their annual returns. 

Compensation strategy

Talx-Mart can adopt proper recruitment and retention strategies in their employees. Another prospect can be the creation of an employee benefit plan that sustains new entrants and existing staff in the company. The value and trust in employees is hence easily achieved because there is belief in leadership roles. For quick attractions, the company needs to have better salary packages unlike their competitors’ capability. These employee benefits gain automatic concentration and performance of staff due to the surety in their job insurance. To fully undertake Talx-Mart’s strategy, the company convinced their customers of their products that are high in quality at an affordable price (Bank-Muñoz, 2017). Presumably, leaders need to learn that employers will not simply work because they love the job but mainly due to consistent better pay. Hence, good compensation facilitates motivation of workers hence upward growth in performance leading to higher profits.

Interestingly, the strategy has worked in increasing potential consumers over time and attaining a competitive advantage over other companies like Tesco and McDonald’s. In the past 5 years, the U.S government has had strained business relations with other countries considering the economic implications to world economies. The effect has seen major supermarkets like Talx-Mart receive strict business tariffs and trade regulations hence hindering a steady growth for both governments and privatized marketing organizations. For instance, since Talx-Mart imports goods from China and Asia in general of over $50 billion, the tariffs and trade barriers imposed can negatively affect not only the supermarket industries but the entire multinationals in business (Hasanov, 2020). Relatively, the principle of lower price products can be compromised with these international tariffs, however; the compensation on Talx-Mart is that it is not the only company that would be inflicted upon.

Additionally, with international tariffs in trade, the pricing of products and services also increases internationally. Eventually, there is a balance in company profits due to the rise in pricing of products with the rise in trade tariffs. This uncertainty in trade constraints among nations has the capability of mushrooming company problems. Talx-Mart’s strategy of employing a qualified and diversified staff establishes a team that has good leader attributes hence success. In being culturally sensitive, Talx-Mart managed to enter into the foreign markets by mixing employees and managers of diverse ethnicities. This strategy helps in attaining a staff that is not only qualified but capable to transgress into new job opportunities and succeed (Bank-Munov, 2017).

Explain and Assess the Total Compensation Implications

Talx-Mart has been named countless times for being one of the leading supermarkets globally by statistical companies. The assessment involves the revenue accrued in the past 10 years and the ability to maintain consumer attractions. The leadership of the company proposes a decentralized system entailing an inclusion of all stakeholder ideas and concerns. Eventually, Bank-Muñoz (2017) asserts that some of not all compensation challenges to a company’s development are reverted. The results then basically indicate the possibilities and future success of Talx-Mart if the above attributes are implemented.

Since the company started at a low pace to enter new markets, Talx-Mart was pushed to enter the international space in the 1990s. The move came as a resolution to the intending pressures of world business concerning strategies of most multibillion companies’ in the globe (Perry, 2019). On the alignment aspect, the company undertakes consistent CSR activities towards their respective consumers to create loyalty and association with consumers. On the other hand, differentiation of products to other competitors saw Talx-Mart re-brand most of their commodities and services. By maintaining low pricing of products while improving their qualities, Talx-Mart is capable to consolidate new and impending challenges to their success. Value addition in companies comes from having quality leadership and a decentralized system of passing information in the hierarchical levels of a company (Hasanov, 2020). The ethical conduct of workers and the executives in the formulation of better rules and regulations help in governing the institution. For instance, proposals by workers to either change or add certain components in company products needs consideration by the management. The staff can feel closure and trust thus developing the urge to seeing the success of an organization. Another compensation strategy is the company aligning itself to the cultural values in the workers and the foreign nation’s ethnic belie

With ever dynamic labor market, there is an immense need for the corporates to reevaluate the policies that determine the procedures of compensating their staffs. The corporation is not an exceptional company that is embracing the emerging plans that are crucial in human resource compensation. Human resource compensation plan should always consider the aspects of profitability, viability, and professional advancements amongst the firms’ employees. However, there are factors that positively affect the company’s compensation strategies such as external, organizational and internal structure factors. These factors have positive influence on the employees’ productivity. Nguyen et al (2020) asserts that employee’s performance is an individual matter depending on the level of different qualifications of each individual which reflects the quantity and quality of something that is done by the worker. The factors that effectively affect the firm’s internal structure are;

1. External factors

External factors are operational aspects that the company can consider when evaluating compensation strategies towards its workforce. They include the prevailing labor market conditions. For instance, the aspects of demand and supply of human skills and expertise, play a major role in its compensation plan. Workers with rare set of skills and expertise gained through experience command higher wage and salary than the ones with ordinary skills which is commonly available in the job market. However, the basic minimum wage and salaries that the government and worker unions cannot largely influence the wage bargain. Cost of living is also a major external factor that affects the compensation strategy among the top management unit of the company. Workers’ union influence is also a major determinant while making decision on the employees’ compensation plan. Another external factor that largely influences the compensation strategies in the corporation is cross-sector mobility, due to efficiency of transfer of talents and skills from one industry to another it is crucial to harmonize the salaries and wages according to the prevailing wage levels.

2. Organizational factors

These are determinants that are within the firm that effectively influence the company’s decision on employees ‘compensation plan. They include the firm’s compensation policy. For example, its attitude to be an online retail leader in pay the market rate determines the company’s pay structure. Another organizational factor is the company’s affordability to pay its employees effectively. The firm also tends to base their pay level on the worth of a job. The wages and salaries are most likely to be higher for jobs involving exercise of intellectual competency, managerial jobs, creativity-oriented jobs, and technical jobs.

However, the organization has an effectively designed process employed when conducting job analysis for the managerial job position. This process of managerial job analysis entails that collecting crucial information about the manager’s job position. Wajeeh-ul-Husnain et al. (2020) affirms that companies can effectively improve employees’ loyalty by providing equal opportunities for employment, training, and development through objective performance appraisals, and linking performance with promotion and compensation. Such aspects include; position descriptions and classification standards, expert’s input, performance standards, and occupational studies. Thereafter, the administrative unit will evaluate the critical tasks that are supposed to be performed by the employee. Afterwards the company will identify and evaluate the critical skills and competencies that the employee’s possess. Then the next step is linking the tasks performed together with the skills and competencies that the employee possesses. Lastly, the company’s top management unit will choose selective and quality rating factor that are critical in analyzing the managerial roles within the organization.

Thus, a manger in online retail business such as Talx-Mart is mandated with;

i. Administering and supervising web merchandising team to accomplish the corporates goals

ii. Advancing strategies to make recommendations for best investment tactics for each department

iii. Offering technical and professional support for strategy development and sales performances

iv. Meeting clients’ expectations by recommending changes to product or services and websites

References

Bank Muñoz, C. (2017). The flexible militancy of Wal-Mart retail workers. Building Power from Below. 

https://doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501712883.003.0005

Bank Muñoz, C. (2017). Wal-Mart in Chile. Building Power from Below. 

https://doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501712883.003.0002

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Finance & Accounting, 1(3), 538-549.

Wajeeh-ul-Husnain, S., Shen, J., & Benson, J. (2020). HRM practices in South Asia:

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