HR Paper
Paper Length---5-10 pages total (both jobs and compensation)—single
spaced, one-inch margins
Components: Job Analysis, Compensation Plan
Cover
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page includes:
Your Name
Course Name
Date
Components:
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Name of company, type of business (product, service offered)
Your companies’ Mission Statement---A brief statement of the reason
your organization is in business.
Strategic HR Process---Linkage (see page 34) (write a couple of
sentences that describes each of the following:
o Strategy (cost leadership, differentiation, niche, quality, hybrid?)
o Culture (shared meaning)
o Competitive Financial Environment (identify your competition if
any)
o Current Situation (you’re a start-up that has been in business for
at least one year; make some reasonable assumptions about
sales/profits).
Job Analysis
Three positions
 Management
 Sales/Marketing
 Other—no janitorial, security positions
Job Descriptions (use p. 186 as model, include physical requirements; do
not use text table format or statement at the bottom of the page).
 Position title, Department, Reporting structure
 General summary statement
 Essential job functions (5)
 Knowledge, skills, abilities (5)
 Education and experience
 Physical/working conditions
Recruitment
 Identify three sources--where you will look for/find candidates and
provide rationalization for using these sources
 Identify how many candidates you need to have respond and how many
you will interview for each position
 Create an ad for a newspaper/website for the management position
 Tell me how you will insure a diverse population of candidates will apply
Selection
 Identify the interview type you will use (different for each position?)
and provide rational
 Based on your job descriptions, identify five questions you will ask (be
specific to position)
Compensation Plan
Attach Job Analysis to Compensation Plan
Compensation Philosophy ---choose one (see page 367)
o Entitlement
o Performance
Compensation Approach ----choose one (see page 368)
o Traditional
o Total Rewards
Base Pay for each position
o Wages or Salaries
 Identify two source(s) for determining these rates (e.g.
monster.com, salary.com. etc).
Variable Pay
o Bonuses (identify types/rational)
o Incentives (identify types/rational)
o Stock Options (identify types/rational, may not apply to all
employees or companies)
o Briefly describe your compensation approach (see page 368).
Benefits ---all must be addressed (see page 431)
o Health Care (identify types/rational/contribution)
o Retirement
o Financial
o Time Off
o Family
o Other?
Presentation (5-8 minutes)
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Company identification/product/service
Mission statement
Strategy of company
Culture
Competitive environment
Current situation
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Compensation Plan
o Three positions