Carter Cleaning Company – The New Pay Plan, management homework help

Continuing Case: Carter Cleaning Company – The New Pay Plan

11-16: Is the company at the point where it should be setting up a formal salary structure based on a complete job evaluation? Why?

11-17: Is Jack Carter’s policy of paying 10% more than the prevailing rates a sound one, and how could that be determined?

11-18: Similarly, is Carter’s male–female differential wise? If not, why not?

11-19: Specifically, what would you suggest Jennifer do now with respect to her company’s pay plan?

Application Case: Salary Inequities at AstraZeneca

11-13: Although the case with OFCCP is closed, we wonder if there are any less discriminatory explanations possible for why our women sales reps on average earned less than men. If so, what are they?

11-14: Our own company now uses a point method to evaluate jobs for pay purposes, and each resulting job class also has a rate range associated with it. Sales associates are now paid a salary that is not based on incentive pay. List three specific things we can do to ensure that a similar problem (inequitable pay based on gender) does not arise again, assuming they continue using the point plan.

11-15: What sort of compensation plan would you recommend for us, and why?