BUS 407 Discussions

BUS 407

WEEK 6

• Based on the scenario, assess key roles of the lecture/discussion training method as it applies to today’s virtual era. Provide examples from the scenario and the textbook to support your rationale.
• Analyze 2–3 specific benefits that students can derive from the addition of audiovisual enhancements to traditional training methods.

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WEEK 7

• From the scenario, outline a plan for a one-day training program that follows the Experiential Learning Model.
• Go to the Association for Talent Development and locate a training or conference in which you are interested. Examine the training objectives that led to the implementation of the training or conference you have chosen. Then, develop a brief overview for a new training package to develop the same training objective.

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Week 8

• Imagine it is your task to calculate ROI for a hypothetical training program. Determine one key element that would factor into your calculation of ROI, and identify the aspects of your hypothetical program that would make the element applicable and your calculation accurate.
• Based on the scenario, analyze the ROI of the training that was implemented, using the cost analysis approach.

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BUS 409

Week 6

Top of Form

You have recently been hired as the HR manager of a small furniture manufacturing company that has 63 employees. These employees include everyone from line workers to upper management. You are the first HR person the company has had. One of your first assignments was to evaluate the fairness of the company’s current compensation system.

Based on your evaluation, you have discovered a number of inconsistencies:

• Some line workers earn more than managers.
• Some managers earn twice as much as other managers even though the work is similar.
• Some line workers are making significantly more money than others even though they are performing the same work.

What recommendations would you make to improve the consistency of the company’s compensation system?

• Be sure to provide the rationale for your recommendations.

Post at least one substantive comment to another student’s post.

Week 7

In your opinion, are discretionary employee benefits an entitlement, or are they earned based on performance?

• • Support your response with specific examples.
• Post at least one substantive comment to another student’s post.

Week 8

Popular press and media accounts generally suggest that executives are overpaid. For example: the average yearly salary of a CEO of Fortune 500 company in 2018 was $14.5 million. The average yearly salary of a regular worker was $39,888

• Justify why the CEO’s pay is appropriate.
  • Support your response with specifics.