Assignment - Business Theme and Employee Positions
Week: Develop a Business Theme and Employee Positions
The following is due this week:
- Develop a business theme and an employee position.
- Follow APA style and format, and ensure the assignment contains a title page and reference page.
- See the Individual Course Project Overview page in Introduction & Resources for more details and expectations.
Remember to submit your assignment for grading when finished.
Course Project Overview
Designing a Compensation Plan
Objectives: The primary learning objective of the individually completed Course Project is to provide practical experience in designing specific elements of a compensation structure for an organization, beginning with creating a business, staffing it, implementing the pay plan, and assessing performance. Need Assignment Help?
Getting Started:
The Individual Course Project requires a great deal of work. Please do not wait until we have covered all of the material to get started. Familiarize yourself with the online resources, both O*NET and the information at salary.com. The DeVry University online library, as well as the on-call librarians, can provide a great deal of research assistance. Use O* NET and/or salary.com to provide key critical information related to job descriptions. Further, check out the information provided online at the Department of Labor (dol dot gov) and the Bureau of Labor Statistics (bls dot gov).
Course Project:
The Course Project is divided into the following deliverables.
The Course Project is an individual paper, which is further subdivided as follows:
1. First section: Develop a Business Theme and Employee Positions.
2. Second section: Staffing and Pay Structures.
3. Final section: Benefits and the Compensation Budget.
Expectations:
The course project will have three (3) deliverables. Each week the paper should be submitted with 4-5 pages in length, double-spaced, not including title and reference pages. The seventh edition APA Style Manual is the style guide to be used for all written papers in this course.
- No additional spaces between paragraphs.
- Paragraphs should be at least three sentences.
- Indent paragraphs
- Use 11pt Calibri or 12pt Times New Roman.
- Have correct grammar, spelling, punctuation, and word usage.
- One peer-reviewed source (in addition to the textbook), must have an in-text citation and full reference on the reference page (each week find a new peer-reviewed source).
- Use APA formatting and style guidelines, including a cover page
Develop a Business Theme and Employee Positions
Business Theme
1. What is the business (technical, professional, service, etc.)? Create the business and give it a name.
2. Locate the business in the United States. Give local area demographic information of the area, business tax structure, and any other information to help with the description of the organization and its customer base.
3. Develop a description of the organization (goals, strategy, culture, values, environment, and product or service).
Employee Positions
1. Establish a staffing plan and determine the positions needed. There is to be a minimum of six (6) employees (full-time or part-time) in the startup organization. For other deliverables of the course project you will be answering questions about the entire staff.
2. Are employees union or nonunion, or does the work environment include both categories?
3. Write a job description for one position.
4. Explain the ranking methodology in your project (see exhibit 5.5 and 5.6 in your textbook).
Job description should contain the following:
- Use a standardized format for the job description (see exhibit 4.2 in your textbook).
- NOTE: It would be effortless to use an existing job description. The expectation is for you to create an original description that aligns with your created business.
- Describe the scope of the position (Summary).
- Relationships-who will they report to.
- Qualifications
- Essential Responsibilities
- Define the qualifications (education requirements, experience, skills, and other criteria).
- Define the ADA requirements. Each job description should have ADA requirements defined per position. This should include the physical, mental, and environmental conditions per position.
Reflection
- Write two-three paragraphs about your take-a-ways from this assignment.