Complete the following:
Compensation Management Course
•Use the Internet or the Strayer Library to research laws within your state that would directly affect compensation practices. Be prepared to discuss.
Compensation Tactics"
•Determine how the law you researched influences compensation strategies for all companies directly affected by the law in your state. Provide specific examples to support your response.
•Some people say that unions make it more difficult for companies to attain competitive advantage. Explain why you agree or disagree with this statement.
"Discretionary Employee Benefits" Please respond to the following:
•Analyze the various codes and acts regarding discretionary employee benefits discussed in Chapter 2 and determine which code or law has had the greatest impact on the largest number of organizations. Explain your rationale.
•Use the Internet or the Strayer Library to research a publicly traded company or organization headquartered in your state with a focus on its approach to base pay system (i.e., seniority versus merit pay systems). Be prepared to discuss.
Seniority versus Merit Pay" Please respond to the following:
•Compare and contrast seniority (longevity) pay with merit pay. Determine the advantages and disadvantages of each, including specific examples to support your response.
•From the e-Activity, determine which type of pay structure would benefit the company or organization the most. Provide your rationale.
"The Pay-for-Performance Link" Please respond to the following:
•Analyze the link between well-designed performance appraisals and merit pay and make at least two (2) recommendations for improving the strength of that link across the greatest number or organizations. Provide your rationale.
•Examine the limitations of merit pay programs to determine which limitation is the most difficult to overcome and suggest ways to overcome these limitations. Provide specific examples to support your response.
•Use the Internet or the Strayer Library to research a company or organization for which you would like to work focusing on its current base of employee pay. Be prepared to discuss.
"Individual versus Group Incentives"
•From the e-Activity, compare and contrast the likely success of individual incentives, group incentives, and companywide incentives for improving employee performance.
•Referring to the same company, create an outline for an incentive pay program that would benefit employees and the company / organization. Provide specific examples to support your response.
From the e-Activity, determine if a person-focused pay system would benefit the company you researched. Provide specific examples to support your response.
•Analyze the advantages to employees and to employers of a person-focused pay program to determine if this would be a good approach for all companies and organizations in the U.S. to pursue. Explain your rationale.
Business administration Capstone
.Use the Internet or the Strayer Library to research the industry of your choice in light of the Five Forces of Competition Model. Be prepared to discuss.
Five Forces of Competition Model" Please respond to the following:
•From the e-Activity, analyze the industry you selected using the Five Forces of Competition Model to determine the impact of each of the five forces.
•Based on your analysis, determine if the industry is attractive or unattractive. Explain your rationale.\
.•Use the Internet or the Strayer Library to research a company of your choice with a focus on the company's internal environment.
Strong Brands" Please respond to the following:
•Several companies use their brand as a competitive advantage. Given your knowledge about the global economy, identify three brands you believe have the strongest likelihood of remaining a source of advantage in the 21st Century and explain why.
•Explain the effects you believe the Internet's capabilities will have on the brands you identified in the previous discussion and what the owner of the brand should do in light of them.
Internal Environment" Please respond to the following:
•From the e-Activity, analyze the internal environment of the company you researched to determine that company's strengths and weaknesses.
•Based on the strengths and weaknesses you discovered, determine what steps the company could take to positively impact the company's competitiveness. Explain your rationale.
•Use the Internet or the Strayer Library to research a company with which you regularly do business or are a regular customer. Focus on how that company relates to their customers. Be prepared to discuss.
•Use the Internet or the Strayer Library to research Apple's strategy for competing against other technology companies. Be prepared to discuss.
Apple, Inc: Keeping the "I" in Innovation" Please respond to the following:
•From the second e-Activity and the case study, determine how market commonality and resource similarity impact Apple's competitive standing in terms of its main rivals. Provide specific examples to support your response.
•Determine what additional steps Apple's competitors are likely to take and how Apple will most likely respond. Explain your rationale