Question 1: Discuss and provide examples of the two primary ways direct financial payments are made to employees. Compare compensation for managers and professionals with compensation for clerical or production workers.

Questions 2: Discuss the purpose of job evaluations. Compare and contrast job evaluations conducted for managerial positions versus hourly positions at a company.

Question 3: Explain the primary factors involved in determining compensation for a firm's CEO. Discuss what reasons best explain the compensation reductions for top executives in recent years.

Question 4: Describe how companies benefit from career planning and retirement planning programs.

Course eTextbook: Dessler, G. (2015). Human resource management [VitalSource Bookshelf version] (14th ed.). Retrieved from https://online.vitalsource.com/#/books/9781323081716