Write a one-page (250–300 words) overview about the company and detail the compensation and/or benefit issue(s) you selected for your Course Project. This refers to items 2 and 3 items listed under Course Project Overview above. This short paper is worth 50 points.

The course project relates to the compensation and benefit strategy of an organization. Students will select an organization that is experiencing challenges with its compensation and/or benefit program. Some examples where challenges exist within the organization’s compensation and benefit plan could include a high rate of employee turnover, an inability to recruit talented employees due to lack of proper compensation, an inability to fund an adequate benefit program, an incentive program where few employees reach their objectives, an inadequately funded retirement system, or a retirement plan that does not offer proper investment choices. Your paper will be graded according to how well you meet the tasks below.

1. Follow proper APA style/citations, grammar and punctuation, and so on. An APA tutorial is located on the HUB for assistance.
2. Identify an organization with compensation or benefits challenges. It could be an organization with which you are familiar personally or through the media.
3. Provide a detailed review of the compensation and/or benefit challenge (problem) at the organization. It is recommended that you concentrate on the principle compensation and/or benefit challenge(s) within a single organization, rather than a number of less important issues. Be careful to avoid selecting a topic that is too broad. At the same time, the challenge facing the organization should be broad enough to provide multiple strategies to help resolve the problem.
4. Discuss the compensation and/or benefits strategies other organizations have utilized related to your challenge, along with a review of their success and failure. As an example, if you are interested in an employee assistance program and why usage is less than expected, detail the strategies other organizations have followed to improve participation and see a return on their investment. Information regarding other organizations should be gathered through a research process and consist with academic-quality materials rather than word-of-mouth information.
5. Recommend the strategy you propose the organization should follow to address its compensation and/or benefit challenge. Explain why you have selected this strategy. Include research (theory) to substantiate your selection.
6. Discuss impediments to this strategy, including any contingency plans that should be considered.
7. Finally, detail how the strategy you propose would address the organization’s challenge (as detailed in step 2 above) and its impact on both the organization and the employee. Include specific items that should be included in the action plan.

Training Needs Assessment Exercise

Instructions: Read the Grand View Grocers Corporation case.

Grand View Grocers Corporation, headquartered in Clewiston, Florida, is among the nation’s top grocery chain companies, with over $34 billion in revenue. It operates and owns approximately 1,500 grocery stores in 10 states and will be expanding operatons to Washington, D.C. in the near future.

Grand View Grocer’s Corporation’s operating strategy distinguishes it from other grocery chain companies. Each grocery store has a Training and Development Methods manager that allows decisions to be made locally, close to the client. This also makes Grand View Grocer Corporation’s service more responsive, reliable, and empathetic to its customers.

Recently, Grand View Grocers Corporation has identified a that there is an increase in the annual turnover rate for cashiers nationwide.  The increase was found in newly hired cashiers, so it was determined that on-the-job training was ineffective.

Under the direction of the store manager, cashiers perform a variety of tasks, including:

·         Receive payment by cash, check, credit cards, vouchers, or automatic debits.

·         Issue receipts, refunds, credits, or change due to customers.

·         Count money in cash drawers at the beginning of shifts to ensure that amounts are correct and that there is adequate change.

·         Greet customers entering establishments.

·         Maintain clean and orderly checkout areas.

·         Establish or identify prices of goods, services or admission, and tabulate bills using calculators, cash registers, or optical price scanners.

·         Issue cashier’s checks, money orders, mailing stamps, and redeem food stamps and coupons.

·         Resolve customer complaints.

·         Answer customers’ questions, and provide information on procedures or policies.

·         Cash checks for customers.

·         Weigh items sold by weight in order to determine prices.

·         Calculate total payments received during a time period, and reconcile this with total sales.

·         Compute and record totals of transactions.

·         Sell lotto tickets and other items to customers.

·         Keep periodic balance sheets of amounts and numbers of transactions.

·         Bag, box, wrap, or gift-wrap merchandise, when needed.

·         Sort, count, and wrap currency and coins.

·         Process returns and exchanges.

·         Request information or assistance using paging systems.

·         Stock shelves, and mark prices on shelves and items, when needed.

·         Compile and maintain non-monetary reports and records.

Essential cashier functions include the following:

• Perform for or Working Directly with the Public — Performing for people or dealing directly with the public. This includes serving customers in restaurants and stores, and receiving clients or guests.
• Establish and Maintain Interpersonal Relationships — Developing constructive and cooperative working relationships with others, and maintaining them over time.
• Get Information — Observing, receiving, and otherwise obtaining information from all relevant sources.
• Identify Objects, Actions, and Events— Identifying information by categorizing, estimating, recognizing differences or similarities, and detecting changes in circumstances or events.
• Process Information — Compiling, coding, categorizing, calculating, tabulating, auditing, or verifying information or data.

Describe in 350- to 525- words the training method or combination of training methods that you would recommend for training.

Justify in 350- to 525- words your choice of method(s).

Using the template provided/ as project manager for

Superpacks 

Scenario Information

You are assuming the role of the project manager for a company called SuperPacks to provide a new backpack product with a built-in refrigeration pouch and radio module. Your customer for this project is the U.S. Army, Ground Forces and Special Operations. As the project manager for your team, you will be submitting to your manager a project management report.

Instructions

Work Breakdown Schedule

As the project manager, your role is to track and manage the projects you are working on; creating a Statement of Work and a Work Breakdown Structure are tools that can help you manage a project or projects. Below you will create a Statement of work consisting of the basics of the project(s) you are working on. Consider this similar to a business or marketing report, but this will define the project, project scope, and overall strategy of the project.

Part OneStatement of Work (SOW) Document:

Develop the project Statement of Work document to include the following information:

• Business need
• Product scope description
• Strategic plan

Part TwoAs part of your Statement of Work for your project, you will create a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS). The WBS allows for project managers to compose all tasks of the projects into smaller components to ensure a more manageable project(s).

Develop the project Work Breakdown Structure using the WBS Template.

I need a 2 page APA paper

You can you your position

You are required to complete a two-page paper in response to the questions below.     

Union membership in the United States labor force is at its lowest since 1939.  Express your opinion about the effectiveness or ineffectiveness of American labor unions at this point in history. What are the strength and weaknesses of the modern unions? To what do you attribute the current decline? Should a worker be allowed to vote for the institution of a new union at a ballot outside the workplace when the business currently does not have a union, or should such an election occur at the workplace?  

You should state your position and support it with a minimum of three external sources. Your paper must conform to APA style and formatting guidelines.