...Compensation and Benefits Strategies Recommendations for Landslide Limousines Team A HRM531 November 10, 2014 Instructor Foy Wallace, III Compensation and Benefits Strategies Introduction to the assignment for the week. Recommendations for Landslide Limousines As we put this paper together, let’s make sure we cover all the requirements: • Conduct a market evaluation by researching what companies in the relevant market are providing to employees from a total compensation perspective. • Recommend a compensation structure. • Recommend the position in the market. • Create a total compensation and benefits strategy. • Consider the use of performance incentives and merit pay to recognize and engage employees. • Identify laws related to the benefits and pay program. A. Cody – Comparable to other businesses in the Area (what should the client choose as a benefit package)? Austin, TX average salary for a driver with experience is 38k. Other services are hiring in new drivers with clean credentials for $15 an hour plus tips. Austin drivers make about 6% less then the national median. This data was collected from indeed.com B. Patricia – Depending on the location check the Market or Strategy to see if it will work there. Landslide Limousine must take a close look at all competitors before building...
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...Team A Reflection Week 6 Amanda Mitchell, Anton McArthur, Carol Joseph, Henry Green, Ivan Irizarrio, Stanley Scott, Vishwas Dave HRM 531 December 3, 2015 Dr. Martha Stanislas Team A Reflection Week 6 Employees are the most valuable asset to any organization; without the employees the business cannot run. More importantly, employees are a reflection of the company’s image, so selecting the right individuals will determine how well the company will do. Atwood and Allen Consulting firm has brought in Team A to provide the recommendations for the Recruitment and Selections Strategies Plans for Landslide Limousine Company, Clapton Commercial Construction Company, and Bollman Hotel Chain. The Plans will include the organizational goals, forecasted demographic changes, an analysis of the projected workforce needs for the next five years, workforce diversity objectives, methods for recruiting and screening candidates, interview methods and process considerations, and methods for selecting candidates. Landslide Limousines Recruiting and selecting the right candidate is an overwhelming process for a startup small business. “Job recruitment and selection practices represent a prerequisite for companies aiming for competitive and skilled employees” Zaharie, M., & Osoian, C. (2013). Once again, Bradley Stonefield has offered Team A Consultants the ultimate occasion to interact by drawing for Landslide Limousines his recruitment and selection strategies. Organizational Goals Following...
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...HRM 531 WEEK 6 A+ Graded Tutorial Available At: http://hwsoloutions.com/?product=hrm-531-week-6 Visit Our website: http://hwsoloutions.com/ Product Description HRM 531 Week 6, HRM 531 Week 6 Recruitment and Selection Strategies Recommendations Recruitment and selection strategies are critical to success of any business. It is especially important in a new business as resources would be required to carry out operations. The limousine business is also starting up in Austin, Texas; hence it would need to build the right team in right time. However the process of finding and selecting right people is dependent on the geographic location where the business is based. The company needs to meet the challenge of being based in Austin. This means that staff has to have their base location as Austin. Using strategies that fail will lead to wastage of time and resources, due to which it becomes extremely important to plan well, search creatively and select wisely. Recruitment and Selection Strategies Recommendations The first stage of recruitment and selection is management of applicants and welcoming the applicant to the business. Recruitment and selection are typically measured as one method. Though, the distinction will be made here between the first actions and concerns when preparing staff recruitment and the procedure of selecting an applicant from a group of candidates (Cascio, 2013). Recruitment needs to be sensibly planned to attract the correct employee’s to Landslide...
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...Recruitment and Selection Strategies Recommendation HRM/531 Recruitment and Selection Strategies Recommendation Introduction In order to secure a successful future, Landslide Limousine must come up with a recruiting and selection strategy. This strategy must target organizational goals in order to work, and Bradley Stonefield must tailor his strategy by taking into account the demographic factors in play in Austin, Texas, where Landslide is located. Since yearly turnover is 10% per year, Landslide’s recruiting and selection strategy must bring in the best employees possible to realize the achievement their organizational goals. Landslide can achieve this if they plan for demographic evolution, create workforce diversity objectives, and develop organizational branding. Additionally, Landslide must come up with effective methods for recruiting candidates that includes screening, interview methods, testing procedures, interview process considerations, and methods for selecting candidates. Organizational Goals Organizational goals are set by implementing effective recruiting and selection methods. The recruiting and selection strategy must support the hiring of at least 25 workers in the first year, with first year gross sales expected to be $50,000. A goal of an annual revenue increase of 5% is also desired. By picking, the most capable candidates will help the corporation in accomplishing those aims and providing quality solutions to customers...
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...Stonefield, Owner FROM: Chris Weeks DATE: October 6, 2013 SUBJECT: Employment Law Compliance Plan The following memo will cover some federal and state employment laws and the consequences for noncompliance of those laws. The U.S. Department of Transportation has minimum set of requirements for those operating a limo service. Drivers cannot drive more than 10 consecutive hours. Drivers must perform vehicle safety inspections and sign a vehicle maintenance log before each trip. Drivers must have a current valid state driver’s license and a list of any violations on file with the company. Drivers must have a minimum Class C state driver’s license with passenger endorsement. Drivers must also complete and pass drug and alcohol testing prior to employment and undergo random testing thereafter (Federal Limousine Service Regulations). Drivers must maintain a clean driving record and must be insurable under the company’s liability insurance policy. In Austin, Texas in order for an employee to drive a limo they must apply for a Chauffeur license permit. The permit will require background, license and traffic violations checks. A copy of the employee’s criminal history and driving record must be certified by Texas Department of Safety. Texas state law requires the employee to carry a license and provide on demand. Not carrying a license can result in a fine not to exceed $200, subsequent fines and jail time for second and third violations. Limousine companies must follow specific...
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...Strategies for Landslide-Limousines Date: May 08, 2014 Thanks for forwarding Mr. Stonefield phone message to us. We understand Mr. Stonefield likes our recommendation for pay and benefits strategies. He likes to have pay and benefits comparable to other limousine services in Austin, TX market. He likes to plan for 25 employees. He is also projecting annual revenue for first year in red (-$50,000) but he is expecting revenue to grow at 5% rate over next couple years. In today market, not just base pay but, complete benefit package is very important to attract new employees and keep them. Managerial attitudes and organization ability to pay have a major impact on wage structure and levels (Cascio, 2013). We have taken following steps in order to come up with our recommendation for compensation and benefits strategies for Landslide-Limousines. Market Evolution of Austin, TX • Position in the market • Total limousines company in Austin – if lots of company then high employee turnover ratio. • Total limousines drives in Austin – Market Base pay and benefit package. • Why and why not limousines service will do well in Austin Market? PAY: To meet the needs of the business we recommend market based pay when selecting a pay structure. This method is best because it allows us to review surveys in the Austin area on what the business should be paying for salaries. Benchmarking will be used when comparing the pay scale to other limousine services. Therefore...
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...Management HRM 531 Dr. Johnson March 15, 2015 Atwood and Allen Consulting Introduction In this week’s assignment, I will look at the following three scenarios and assist the clients in complying with both state and federal laws that govern how they are organized and run. I will assist the following clients. * A small business owner in a limousine service doing business in Texas. * A Human Resources Director of a medium sized construction company that wants to open up operations in Arizona. * A Human Resources representative with a large hotel that wants to expand its operations into the country of India. Landslide Limousines as a small business client. Bradley Stonefield wants to open a “first-class” limousine service in Austin, Texas as an on-going concern. He projects that there will be 25 employees hired at the outset. He will organize as a small business and he will be subject to state and federal laws in the recruitment and retention of drivers, as well as licensing requirements that will be determined by the state of Texas. The labor market conditions will help dictate which federal and state laws will be used. The limousine service will have to comply with a number of federal employment laws. First, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Cascio, 2013, p.83) prohibits the discrimination in hiring and promotions based on race, color, religion, and sex of the applicant. In very narrowly defined situations, an employer is permitted to discriminate on the...
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...This week I have developed an employment law compliance plan to assist you and your firm Landslide Limousines in satisfying the laws set forth by the United States as well as your home state of Texas. Along with bringing said laws to your attention, I will also include the consequences of failing to comply with them. The following are the most important employment laws that I feel are relevant to you and your company. Texas Payday Law: Payday Law deals with every size of company and states information about “payment delivery, pay periods, compensable time, deductions from wages, how to claim unpaid wages, how to withdraw a wage claim, wage claim determination, appeals and collections”. (Chapter 61 Labor Code) I think the most relevant articles in regards to you and your firm from these sets fall under SUBCHAPTER B. PAYMENT OF WAGES. According to "Texas Labor Code: Chapter 61" (2014), “Sec. 61.011. PAYDAYS. (a) An employer shall pay wages to each employee who is exempt from the overtime pay provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (29 U.S.C. Section 201 et seq.) at least once a month. (b) An employer shall pay wages to an employee other than an employee covered by Subsection (a) at least twice a month. (c) If wages are paid twice a month, each pay period must consist as nearly as possible of an equal number of days. Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 269, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1993.” Consequence of failing to pay your workers their wages in a timely manner...
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...GLENCOE LANGUAGE ARTS Grammar and Language Workbook G RADE 9 Glencoe/McGraw-Hill Copyright © by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. Except as permitted under the United States Copyright Act of 1976, no part of this publication may be reproduced or distributed in any form or means, or stored in a database or retrieval system, without the prior written permission of the publisher. Send all inquiries to: Glencoe/McGraw-Hill 936 Eastwind Drive Westerville, Ohio 43081 ISBN 0-02-818294-4 Printed in the United States of America 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 024 03 02 01 00 99 Contents Handbook of Definitions and Rules .........................1 Troubleshooter ........................................................21 Part 1 Grammar ......................................................45 Unit 1 Parts of Speech 1.1 Nouns: Singular, Plural, and Collective ....47 1.2 Nouns: Proper and Common; Concrete and Abstract.................................49 1.3 Pronouns: Personal and Possessive; Reflexive and Intensive...............................51 1.4 Pronouns: Interrogative and Relative; Demonstrative and Indefinite .....................53 1.5 Verbs: Action (Transitive/Intransitive) ......55 1.6 Verbs: Linking .............................................57 1.7 Verb Phrases ................................................59 1.8 Adjectives ....................................................61 1.9 Adverbs........................................................63 1.10 Prepositions...
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...представляет собой вторую часть учебного комплекса "English For University Students". Учебник включает текстовый материал и комплексную систему упражнений для отработки навыков устной и письменной речи на продвинутом этапе обучения. Материал отредактирован профессором кафедры современных языков и литератур Оклевдского университета Н. Ф. Лонганом. Все права защищены. ( «Издательство Союз», 2000 ( Меркулова Е. М.. Филимонова О. Е., Костыгина С. И., Иванова Ю. А., Папанова Л.В., 2000 ( В.А. Гореликов, художественное оформление, 2000 ISBN 5-87852-114-8 CONTENTS Lesson 1 FAMILY LIFE 3 Lesson 2 HOME 16 Lesson 3 DAILY ROUTINE 29 Lesson 4 DOMESTIC CHORES 41 Lesson 5 SHOPPING FOR FOOD 54 Lesson 6 SHOPPING FOR CONSUMER GOODS 68 Lesson 7 MEALS AND COOKING 81 Lesson 8 COLLEGE LIFE 96 Lesson 9 CHARACTER AND APPEARANCE 112 Lesson 10 WEATHER 127 SUPPLEMENTARY READING 141 TOPICAL VOCABULARY 160 ПРЕДИСЛОВИЕ Учебный комплекс "English for University Students" рассчитан на студентов первого курса факультетов иностранных языков и изучающих английский язык на продвинутом этапе и отвечает требованиям программы Министерства Высшего Образования Российской...
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...___________________________ LIVING HISTORY Hillary Rodham Clinton Simon & Schuster New York • London • Toronto • Sydney • Singapore To my parents, my husband, my daughter and all the good souls around the world whose inspiration, prayers, support and love blessed my heart and sustained me in the years of living history. AUTHOR’S NOTE In 1959, I wrote my autobiography for an assignment in sixth grade. In twenty-nine pages, most half-filled with earnest scrawl, I described my parents, brothers, pets, house, hobbies, school, sports and plans for the future. Forty-two years later, I began writing another memoir, this one about the eight years I spent in the White House living history with Bill Clinton. I quickly realized that I couldn’t explain my life as First Lady without going back to the beginning―how I became the woman I was that first day I walked into the White House on January 20, 1993, to take on a new role and experiences that would test and transform me in unexpected ways. By the time I crossed the threshold of the White House, I had been shaped by my family upbringing, education, religious faith and all that I had learned before―as the daughter of a staunch conservative father and a more liberal mother, a student activist, an advocate for children, a lawyer, Bill’s wife and Chelsea’s mom. For each chapter, there were more ideas I wanted to discuss than space allowed; more people to include than could be named; more places visited than could be described...
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...Doing Business in Thailand: 2012 Country Commercial Guide for U.S. Companies INTERNATIONAL COPYRIGHT, U.S. & FOREIGN COMMERCIAL SERVICE AND U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE, 2010. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED OUTSIDE OF THE UNITED STATES. • • • • • • • • • • Chapter 1: Doing Business In Thailand Chapter 2: Political and Economic Environment Chapter 3: Selling U.S. Products and Services Chapter 4: Leading Sectors for U.S. Export and Investment Chapter 5: Trade Regulations, Customs and Standards Chapter 6: Investment Climate Chapter 7: Trade and Project Financing Chapter 8: Business Travel Chapter 9: Contacts, Market Research and Trade Events Chapter 10: Guide to Our Services 1 Return to table of contents Chapter 1: Doing Business In Thailand • • • • Market Overview Market Challenges Market Opportunities Market Entry Strategy Market Overview • Return to top Thailand is the 27th largest export destination for the United States. Two-way trade in 2011 was about $35.75 billion, with $24.8 billion in Thai exports to the U.S. and $10.9 billion in U.S. exports to Thailand. The figures represent an increase of 12.9 percent in the value of trade between the two countries. U.S. exports to Thailand increased by 21.7 percent, while US imports from Thailand increased by about 9.4 percent for the same period in 2010. In Asia, Thailand ranks as the United States’ 10th largest export destination after China, Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan, India, Hong Kong, Singapore and Malaysia. The Thai...
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...GAME CHANGE OBAMA AND THE CLINTONS, MCCAIN AND PALIN, AND THE RACE OF A LIFETIME JOHN HEILEMANN AND MARK HALPERIN FOR DIANA AND KAREN Contents Cover Title Page Prologue Part I Chapter One – Her Time Chapter Two – The Alternative Chapter Three – The Ground Beneath Her Feet Chapter Four – Getting to Yes Chapter Five – The Inevitables Chapter Six – Barack in a Box Chapter Seven – “They Looooove Me!” Chapter Eight – The Turning Point Chapter Nine – The Fun Part Chapter Ten – Two For the Price of One Chapter Eleven – Fear and Loathing in the Lizard’s Thicket Chapter Twelve – Pulling Away and Falling Apart Chapter Thirteen – Obama Agonistes Chapter Fourteen – The Bitter End Game Part II Chapter Fifteen – The Maverick and His Meltdown Chapter Sixteen – Running Unopposed Chapter Seventeen – Slipping Nooses, Slaying Demons Part III Chapter Eighteen – Paris and Berlin Chapter Nineteen – The Mile-High Club Chapter Twenty – Sarahcuda Chapter Twenty-One – September Surprise Chapter Twenty-Two – Seconds in Command Chapter Twenty-Three – The Finish Line Epilogue – Together at Last Index Author’s Notes About the Authors Copyright About the Publisher Prologue BARACK OBAMA JERKED BOLT upright in bed at three o’clock in the morning. Darkness enveloped his low-rent room at the Des Moines Hampton Inn; the airport across the street was quiet in the hours before dawn. It was very late December 2007, a few days ahead of the Iowa caucuses. Obama had been sprinting flat out...
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...THE B L A C K SWAN The HIGHLY I mpact IM of the PROBABLE Nassim Nicholas Taleb U.S.A. $26.95 Canada $34.95 is a highly improbable event with three principal characteristics: It is unpre dictable; it carries a massive impact; and, after the fact, we concoct an explanation that makes it appear less random, and more predictable, than it was. The astonishing success of Google was a black swan; so was 9 / 1 1 . For Nassim Nicholas Taleb, black swans underlie almost everything about our world, from the rise of religions to events in our own personal lives. A BLACK SWAN Why do we not acknowledge the phenomenon of black swans until after they occur? Part of the answer, according to Taleb, is that humans are hardwired to learn specifics when they should be focused on generalities. We concentrate on things we already know and time and time again fail to take into consideration what we don't know. We are, therefore, unable to truly estimate oppor tunities, too vulnerable to the impulse to simplify, narrate, and categorize, and not open enough to rewarding those who can imagine the "impossible." For years, Taleb has studied how we fool our selves into thinking we know more than we actually do. We restrict our thinking to the irrelevant and inconsequential, while large events continue to surprise us and shape our world. Now, in this reve latory book, Taleb explains everything we know about what we don't know. He offers...
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...FAMILY OF SECRETS The Bush Dynasty, America’s Invisible Government, and the Hidden History of the Last Fifty Years RUSS BAKER Contents Foreword by James Moore 1. How Did Bush Happen? 2. Poppy’s Secret 3. Viva Zapata 4. Where Was Poppy? 5. Oswald’s Friend 6. The Hit 7. After Camelot 8. Wings for W. 9. The Nixonian Bushes 10. Downing Nixon, Part I: The Setup 11. Downing Nixon, Part II: The Execution 12. In from the Cold 13. Poppy’s Proxy and the Saudis 14. Poppy’s Web 15. The Handoff 16. The Quacking Duck 17. Playing Hardball 18. Meet the Help 19. The Conversion 20. The Skeleton in W.’s Closet 21. Shock and . . . Oil? 22. Deflection for Reelection 23. Domestic Disturbance 24. Conclusion Afterword Author’s Note Acknowledgments Notes Foreword When a governor or any state official seeks elective national office, his (or her) reputation and what the country knows about the candidate’s background is initially determined by the work of local and regional media. Generally, those journalists do a competent job of reporting on the prospect’s record. In the case of Governor George W. Bush, Texas reporters had written numerous stories about his failed businesses in the oil patch, the dubious land grab and questionable funding behind a new stadium for Bush’s baseball team, the Texas Rangers, and his various political contradictions and hypocrisies while serving in Austin. I was one of those Texas journalists. I spent about a decade...
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