Human Resource Management homework help

341 Final EXAM
Be sure to watch the point values. A 20 point question should be discussing a lot of issues.
Each point missed = ½%
Questions 1 and 2 are similar to the questions in Exam 2. You must be careful. A.R.T.S.
 
1. You have the following wage progression scale
HOUSEKEEPER
START 3 MOS 6 MOS 1 YEAR 2 YEARS 3 YEARS
7-1-19 to 6-30-20 9.00 9.50 10.00 10.50 11.00 11.50 7-1-20 to 6-30-21 9.50 10.00 10.50 11.00 11.50 12.00 7-1-21 to 6-30-22 10.00 10.50 11.00 11.50 12.00 12.50
LABORER
START 3 MOS 6 MOS 1 YEAR 2 YEARS 3 YEARS
7-1-19 to 6-30-20 9.50 10.00 10.50 11.00 11.50 12.00
7-1-20 to 6-30-21 10.00 10.50 11.00 11.50 12.00 12.50
7-1-21 to 6-30-22 10.50 11.00 11.50 ` 12.00 12.50 13.00
MAINTENANCE HELPER
START 3 MOS 6 MOS 1 YEAR 2 YEARS 3 YEARS
7-1-19 to 6-30-20 10.00 10.50 11.00 11.50 12.00 12.50 7-1-20 to 6-30-21 10.50 11.00 11.50 12.00 12.50 13.00
7-1-21 to 6-30-22 11.00 11.50 12.00 12.50 13.00 13.50
Employees are paid according to length of service with the company and classification on a calendar year basis without deduction for time off or proration. Joe is hired as a Housekeeper on 10-1-19 and is promoted to Laborer on 6-1-20 and to Maintenance Helper on 1-1-22. State the rate at hire and the wage changes and the dates thereof. (6 points) (Note: There may or may not be six rate changes.)
2. You are head of the Maintenance Department in Greggysburg, Ohio. Employees are paid according to length of service with the City based on their date of hire and classification.
You have the following employees who each are compensated 500 hours per calendar quarter with the following dates of hire.
A 1-1-75
B 4-1-88
C 10-1-11
D 10-1-06
E 4-1-18 RED CIRCLED AT $ 14.75
F 7-1-20
G 10-1-19
Employees receive a longevity bonus of $ 1,000 each year commencing on their 20th anniversary date.
Employees earn vacation based on their length of service as of December 31st to be utilized in the following year as follows:
Less than 1 year no vacation
1 to 5 years 2 weeks
6 to 12 years 3 weeks
13 + years 4 weeks
Employees will take all of their vacation. When employees take vacation, their jobs are filled by agency temps, the agency is paid $ 800 for each week of vacation covered.
Employer contribution rates are as follow:
PERS 15%
UEC 3%
WC 2%
The 2020 and 2021 wage scales are as follows:
START 6 MONTHS 1 YEAR 2 YEARS 3 YEARS
2020 12.00 12.50 13.00 13.50 14.00
2021 12.50 13.00 13.50 14.00 14.50
What is your budget for 2021? (24 points) SHOW ALL YOUR WORK.
3. You have inherited your uncle’s retain carpet business. He has six (6) full-time installers paid $ 15.00 an hour who have been with the company for an average of ten years. A usual installation requires two persons and takes 2 to 4 hours. You pay for single health care at $ 600.00 a month and provide two weeks vacation which is taken during slow periods. Employees on vacation are not replaced. Payroll taxes cost you 20% of wages. There are weeks when installers only work an average of ten hours installing. During those weeks, they are used to unload carpet delivered from the suppliers and to help with customer service. During busy periods, about ten weeks a year, installers work 20 hours of overtime each. Your retail store is covered by 4 FTE of part time employees at $ 12.00 an hour who receive no vacation or health insurance. Your employees work Monday through Friday. There are 260 week days during 2021. The store is closed on legal holidays and employees are paid their regular wages on those days if during the regular work week.
 
a. What is your budget for 2021.
b. Describe the advantage and disadvantages of having the installing done by independent contractors instead of employees.
c. Describe all you would do and what you would consider in converting some or all of your employees to independent contractors, the rate you would pay and the reason therefor and how it would be paid.
d. State all you will do to assure that the independent contractors you utilize are considered independent contractors.
(40 points)
 
4. You want to open a day care with baby sitting services (in-house) on Kelly’s Island, a resort island in Lake Erie. You want to hire eight full time employees for the season, May 15 through September 7. Employees would man the day care in five hour staggered shifts, 7 days a week to cover from 6 am to 6 pm and be assigned as the babysitter one night per week for five hours. Employees would be paid $ 12.00 an hour and room and board in a co-ed dormitory room. Write an ad to get the “best little pool of applicants”. (8 points)
 
 
5. You have three (3) equally qualified candidates and need to assign one of them to supervise the opening of a manufacturing plant in Mexico for a year. Discuss all you will want to know about each candidate and the job location to determine who to chose and how to compensate. (8 points)
 
6. You have the following grade and step system. People receive a step increase upon reaching their anniversary date in their classification. On promotion, a person receives the same step in the new classification as they held in the old classification.
 
Joe is hired on 7-1-20 at Step 2 in Grade 1 and is promoted to grade 2 on 10-1-21 and to grade 3 on 4-1-22. Show the wage changes. (8 points)
GRADE 1
STEP 1 STEP 2 STEP 3 STEP 4 STEP 5
1-1-20 8 9 10 11 12
1-1-21 9 10 11 12 13
1-1-22 10 11 12 13 14
 
GRADE 2
STEP 1 STEP 2 STEP 3 STEP 4 STEP 5
1-1-20 9 10 11 12 13
1-1-21 10 11 12 13 14
 
1-1-22 11 12 13 14 15
 
 
GRADE 3
STEP 1 STEP 2 STEP 3 STEP 4 STEP 5
1-1-20 10 11 12 13 14
 
1-1-21 11 12 13 14 15
 
1-1-22 12 13 14 15 16
 
7. Your final offer in Conciliation is a 2% wage increase and the union proposes a 4% wage increase. Can the conciliator award a 3% wage increase and why? (3 points)
 
8. A Fact-Finder issues his recommendation. There are 400 people covered by the contact and 150 union members. 120 show up to vote and 92 vote to reject. What is the result of the vote? (3 points)
 
9. Explain the following: (2 points each)
 
Claw back provision
 
Employment at will state
 
Implied covenant of fair dealing state
 
The difference between a defined contribution plan and a 401k plan
 
Golden Parachute
 
Platinum parachute
 
Restricted stock option
 
Expatriate
 
Intrinsic compensation
 
Extrinsic compensation
 
 
10. You are offered a job as a manager out of state. You know that you are qualified and the job pays much more than you are presently earning. What do you investigate and or try to negotiate for yourself for job protection. An what other steps might you take for that purpose.
(8 points)
 
 
11. Describe the process for collective bargaining for public employees in the State of Ohio for safety and non-safety forces, describing fact-finding and the powers of the fact-finding, conciliation and the powers of conciliation, the acceptance rejection process and appeals. (10 points)
 
12. State facts which would establish: (2 points each)
 
A prima facie case of race discrimination
 
Quo pro quo sexual harassment
 
Hostile work environment sexual harassment
 
A violation of the equal pay act
 
13. You are asked to accept an assignment in India, setting up a new plant. What terms do you want to negotiate with your employer? (6 points)
 
 
14. As a company, what should you communicate with applicants? (4 points)
 
 
15. What questions do you need to ask in order to understand how a wage progression scales with multiple classifications operate. (6) points.
 
 
16. What additional questions do you need to ask in order to understand how a step system with multiple classifications operate. (2 points)
 
 
17. You have a band system with pay grades which provides that when a person is promoted up to two grades, they receive a 5% increase or the bottom of the band, but in no case higher than the top of the band and that when a person is promoted more than two grades, they receive a 10% increase or the bottom of the band, but in no case higher than the top of the band. (2 points each)
Your pay bands are as follows:
Grade 1 10.00 – 11.00
Grade 2 10.25 – 11.25
Grade 3 11.00 – 13.00
Grade 4 11.25 – 13.25
Grade 5 14.00 – 15.00
Calculate the rates
Employee A in Grade 1 earning 10.95 is promoted to Grade 2
Employee B, in Grade 1 earning 10.50 is promoted to Grade 3
Employee C, in Grade 1 earning 10.50 is promoted to Grade 4
Employee D, in Grade 1 earning 10.50 is promoted to Grade 5
Employee E in Grade 4 earning 13.25 is promoted to Grade 5
 
18. You own an electronics store and you feel that your floor staff does not seem to make an effort to provide properly engage prospective customers and provide explanations of the products. They all are paid a flat hourly rate of $ 12.00 per hour. Discuss what communications you would have with the employees, what type of incentive programs you would institute; bonuses, group or individual, merit increases, or other, why you would choose such a method and how performance would be evaluated. (12 points)
 
19. Explain and contrast the terms, equal, relatively equal and substantially equal and the terms determines and deems as they relate to selection under of bidders under union contracts. (10 points)
 
 
20. And, of course, finally, What is Rule 1? (2 points)