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Essay Instructions: Skill-Based Pay...Has it Caught On?

In 1987 Edward E. Lawler and Gerald E. Ledford?s article ?Skill-Based Pay: A Concept That?s Catching On? was published in Management Review. The authors stated, ?It is reasonable to assume that skill-based pay will become more and more popular in coming years."

Lawler,Edward E., III, & Ledford,Gerald E., Jr. (1987). Skill-based pay: A concept that's catching on. Management Review, 76(2), 46-46. Retrieved May 30, 2013.

Drawing on the material in the background reading and your own additional research, prepare a 4- to 5-page paper (not including the cover and reference pages) in which you:

--Compare and contrast a skill-based pay structure with a traditional job-based pay structure.

--Were the authors correct? Have skill-based pay structures gained in popularity in organizations since 1987? Discuss in detail, providing examples.

--If this type of pay structure has not caught on, has another type of pay structure grown in prominence in the private sector during this time? What is commonly found as a pay structure in organizations today? Give actual employer examples (stating employers by name).

Note: In your paper, focus as much as possible on pay structures in the private (business) sector, but feel free to make comparisons to their use in the public sector, too, if you wish. (This is not a requirement, however.)

Bring in at least 5 library sources to help strengthen and support your discussion.


Assignment Expectations:

Your paper should demonstrate critical thinking and analysis of the relevant issues and HRM actions, drawing upon all of the required background readings and relevant sources from your prior courses and your own library search. Use website information sparingly (reputable websites only).

Prepare a paper that is professionally presented (including a cover page, a "List of References," and a strong introduction and conclusion).

Proofread your paper carefully for grammar, spelling and word-usage errors.

Address all aspects of the assignment as stated.

Provide private-sector employer examples of HRM programs, systems, processes and/or procedures as you address the above assignment requirments. Provide names of the employers. Use different employer examples in your case paper than those used in your SLP paper.

Limit your web search and focus instead on your library search. Bring in information from the background readings as well to help add depth and validity to your discussion.

Give authors credit for their work. Cite sources of borrowed information in the body of your paper as footnotes, numbered end notes or APA style of referencing.

Essay Instructions: Skills for Online Learning

An online masters program often requires students to adapt their previously "tried and true" strategies for planning, time management, studying, and technology use to strategies more in line with the realities of an environment in which learning activities take place around the clock.

This Discussion will give you an opportunity to assess your own strategies for effective online learning and to develop and share new ideas with your colleagues. Through your Discussion, look for ideas, strategies, and suggestions that will enhance your online experience and your ability to succeed in the online environment.

To prepare for this Discussion, review relevant course media content and the Walden e-Guide.

Post by Day 4 a response to the following:

Describe at least one new strategy for each of the following areas, explaining why you think each will contribute to your success as an online learner:

? Planning
? Time management
? Studying
? Effective technology use

Share one strategy from the above list that you have used in the past and that has empowered you to be more successful. Describe the strategy and explain how it has been helpful.

Essay Instructions: You should actively anticipate your Final Project throughout the term, in the sense that the assignment will require you to construct a "Portfolio", documenting your performance over the course of the term in achieving key course objectives. Most generally, these include the following three.

Analytical skill building?How have you improved your critical reading, writing, and thinking skills.
Knowledge acquisition?How well have you mastered central concepts, ideas, and perspectives in bioethics, relative to the historically conventional ethical perspectives we begin with, and to the selection of distinct bioethical controversies we address thereafter.
Practical application?How well have you been able to connect course material to issues of concern in your personal or professional life.

You should anticipate responding to each of these questions with a general analysis of your performance, together with supporting evidence in the form of concrete examples from your coursework, other curricular work, and extra-curricular activities during the term.

Complete your Final Project in Microsoft Word. It should be approximately 9 to 12 pages in length if in Word,

You portfolio may include:

excerpts from your papers

examples of your reading notes

selected Discussion or Seminar interactions



Your Portfolio Project will also require you to reflect on your progress toward course goals, including your own evaluation of your work habits, reflections on any difficulties that you faced, or any special challenges that you overcame.

Reference Book:

Parks, J.A. & Wike,V.S. (2010). Bioethics in a changing world. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall

Essay Instructions: Your research paper should include the following:
a. A title page
b. A well-developed thesis statement that addresses a concisely worded essential question about a sociological concept of your choice. Thesis Topic is The skills sets needed to get a job to be successful and do the main social inequality that we may face based on money, class and gender and sex make a difference in the workplace?
c. A summary analysis of various authors? perspectives concerning the central question or theme.
d. Own perspective based on your consideration and application of these ideas within the
dynamic environments of college, career, and life.
e. Appropriate citation style (in-text) and reference page according to the conventions of the
American Psychological Association (APA). It should conform to all APA citation and paper format rules.
f. Your reflective narrative think about and discuss in a paragraph the following statement. This response will allow you to ?think about thinking? (metacognition) and how you should approach a research paper in other courses.