Strategic Compensation
Systems
Management 4513 Section 18384
Fall 2012
Instructor: Dr. Renee Warning, SPHR
Office: 226 Thatcher; Office hours: Office hours; TR 2:00 -4:00 PM
Phone: 210-6306, e-mail RWarning@uco.edu, or Rwarn3700@cox.net
Class: Room 107 W 2:00 – 4:45
Text: Strategic Compensation, 5th Ed., Joseph J. Martocchio, Pearson Prentice Hall, ISBN 13:
978-0-13-600071-6.
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Course Description: The University and the College of Business are committed to providing
students transformative learning experiences in six core areas. This course supports those
goals by providing students with a foundation for constructing effective legally compliant
compensation systems that will provide organizations with internal pay consistency, market
competitiveness and the means for recognizing individual achievement.
Course Objectives: Upon conclusion of this course students will be able to:
* Define how compensation systems support organizational strategic mission.
* Build both external and internal compensation systems through market analysis.
* Apply and comply with Federal, Oklahoma and International legal aspects of employee pay
and benefits.
* Structure ethical and consistent pay systems that recognize employee contributions.
* Recognize how to structure pay and benefit systems outside the United States.
Course Requirements:
Attendance: Regular attendance is mandatory! An essential component of this course is
the learning that occurs while interacting with others in the analysis and discussion of
assigned reading. Therefore, after students miss 2 classes, 10 points will be deducted for
EACH additional unexcused absence. Tardiness will be considered an unexcused absence.
Absences will be consider excused for personal and immediate family illnesses and
emergencies and for scheduled school extracurricular activities. Appropriate documentation
for absences will be required. Students are required to turn off cell phones and pagers
during class. Use of personal computers during lecture time is prohibited unless essential
to team assignments which will be conducted in class. Students that have personal
computers will be encouraged to bring them to class for class projects.
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Strategic Debate and Analysis Project: Student teams will be assigned topics that are
relevant and current and controversial in the field of human resource management.
Student teams will be expected to debate their assigned topic in front of the class on
assigned dates with the opposing team. A academically researched paper will be prepared
by each team and presented to the instructor on the assigned date of the debate. More
specific instructions will be provided to students during the course of the semester.
Examinations: There will be a total of four examinations scheduled during the semester.
Each is worth 100 points. Questions will be both objective and short essay and will cover
all assigned reading material and all lecture content. Students are required to bring a
pristine Scantron Answer Sheet From 882-ES and a number 2 pencil to each examination
to record answers.
Grading: The following weights are assigned:
Examination (100 points each)
400 points
Project
50 points
Participation
50 points
Total Points
500 points
Grading Distribution:
A = 90% or more points
B = 80 – 89% of total points
C = 70 – 79% of total points
D = 60 – 69% of total points
F = less than 59% of total points
Class Schedule
August
22 Orientation and Chapter #1
29 Chapter #2 and #3
September
5 OK Wage and Payroll Law
12 OK Wage Law Affordable Health Care and Review
19 Test #1 Over Chapters 1,2, 3, OK Wage and Payroll and ACA
26 Chapter #4 and #5
October
3 Chapter #6 and Review
10 Test #2 over chapters #4,5,6
17 Chapter #8 and #9
24 Chapter #10 and Review
31 Test #3 over chapters # 8,9,10
November
7 Chapters # 11 and 12
14 Chapter # 13 Debate Preparation
21 Thanksgiving Break
28 Debates
December
5 Debates and review for final
12 Test #4 over chapters # 11,12,13