03 Jan Imagine you are designing

HRA562 Compensation Strategic Persp

Module 1 Applied Assignment 1

Analyze the Case Study for Competitive Strategy at Sportsman Shoes on page 21 of your textbook. Prepare a paper answering the following questions:

Following Sportsman’s shift in competitive strategy, what are some considerations for the company’s human resource management practices?

What kind of challenges do you think that Sportsman’s faces specifically in the area of compensation?

Support your analysis with at least two recent scholarly sources to substantiate your insights.

The analysis should be presented in APA format.

The analysis should be 3-5 pages in length, excluding the title page, abstract and references.

The “Applied Assignments Scoring Rubric” can be found in Doc Sharing.

Submit this assignment to the Assignment box no later than Sunday 11:59 PM EST/EDT. (This Assignment box basket is linked to Turnitin.)

HRA562 Compensation Strategic Persp

Module 2 Applied Assignment 2

Analyze the Case Study for Exempt or non-exempt on page 47 of your textbook. Prepare a paper answering the following questions:

Why did Amy classify the shift leaders as exampt? Are there any advantages to Jones Department Store to having the shift leaders classified as exempt?

Do you think that the shift leaders are properly classified as exempt? Why or why not?

What are some factors that Amy should consider when determining whether shift leaders are exempt or non-exempt?

Support your analysis with at least two recent scholarly sources to substantiate your insights.

The analysis should be presented in APA format.

The analysis should be 3-5 pages in length, excluding the title page, abstract and references.

HRA562 Compensation Strategic Persp

Module 3 Applied Assignment 3

Prepare a paper that explains the strategic differences between pay for performance and pay for knowledge systems. Include an analysis of how various pay plans used for teams align with pay for performance and pay for knowledge systems.

The paper should be presented in an APA format.

The paper should be 4-6 pages in length, excluding the title page and reference list.

The Applied Assignments Scoring Rubric can be found in Doc Sharing.

HRA562 Compensation Strategic Persp

Module 5 Applied Assignment 4

Prepare a paper that presents the 5-step process for constructing a pay structure. The paper should present the steps in chronological order and explain the main objective of each step, as well as describe the key considerations of each. Use at least two recent articles (not older than 5 years) to inform your work in addition to the Martochhio textbook.

The analysis should be presented in an APA format.

The analysis should be 4-5 pages in length, excluding the title page and reference list.

The “Applied Assignments Scoring Rubric” can be found in Doc Sharing.

HRA562 Compensation Strategic Persp

Module 6 Applied Assignment 5

Imagine you are designing an incentive plan for your organization’s (or an organization of your choice) middle managers. Create both short-term and long-term incentives, explaining why you feel they will be motivating to middle-managers. Why does this group require separate consideration?

The analysis should be presented in an APA format.

The analysis should be 3-4 pages in length, excluding the title page and reference list.

The “Applied Assignments Scoring Rubric” can be found in Doc Sharing.

HRA562 Compensation Strategic Persp

Module 8 Applied Assignment 6

Read the North American Expansion for Threads Apparel case study on page 338-339 in the Martocchio text, and then prepare a 2-3 page paper that presents your analysis of the case by answering both questions. APA is not required for this paper.