Ch. 10 Reflection & Ch. 11

Ch. 10 Reflection
Having had to miss class for my little girls emergency run to the pediatrician, I did some reading up on my teammates blogs to see what discussion and lecture I missed in class Monday. Here is what I have gathered. In class we broke into groups (as usual) to discuss the reading. They also talked about progressive discipline and the process that happens when an employee continues to not work the way they should. They also talked about job with drawl and how there are many ways that this can occur. Casey thought this was an interesting topic because she has experienced it first hand when one of her coworkers was going through a divorce, and she saw the toll it took on all the other workers as well as the company as a whole.

Chapter 11
Establishing a Pay Structure
This chapter discussed how much to pay employees based on their skills, experience, and the job type. It discussed the factors of equality and fairness, and how to determine real skills. It also describes what and how pay grades, pay ranges, and pay differentials work. Equal pay for equal work was an interesting topic.
Pay structure, how they decide how much to pay each employee, benchmarking, comparing other companies in the same industry, pay policy line, mathematical relationship between job evaluation points and pay rate were some of the key topics.
How do companies deal with employees that are upset about the pay scales and raises, and what are the most common complaints and solutions?