Strategic Management Journal Strat. Mgmt. J.‚ 22: 777–792 (2001) DOI: 10.1002/smj.170 STRATEGIC REWARD SYSTEMS: A CONTINGENCY MODEL OF PAY SYSTEM DESIGN BRIAN K. BOYD1 and ALAIN SALAMIN2 * 1 2 College of Business‚ Arizona State University‚ Tempe‚ Arizona‚ U.S.A. Ecole des HEC‚ University of Lausanne‚ Lausanne-Dorigny‚ Switzerland‚ and Compensation Development‚ Firmenich SA‚ Meyrin‚ Switzerland A limited number of studies have addressed the idea of ‘strategic’ reward systems—the matching
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Nguyen Subject: The Need for Sick Child Care Day Care is a part of all working parents in the United States. There is a huge unmet need for sick child care. Working mothers become absent from work due to the fact that their children are not allowed to attend regular child care programs. More than 350‚000 children under the age of 14 years of age are too sick to attend school or day care. When one of the workers needs to leave suddenly to take care of a sick child‚ the employers are usually
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June 5‚ 2013 ‘Sick Around The World’ Video Summary This movie went around the world to different countries to show the comparisons and differences in healthcare compared to each other and the U.S. The first country that was visited was the United Kingdom. The United Kingdom spends 8.3% of their GDP on healthcare. The citizens pay nothing for premiums‚ all of it is paid trough taxation. Some services require co-pay‚ but all young people and all elderly are exempt from drug co-pays. The United Kingdom
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use of a gatekeeper? GREAT BRITAIN thinks of gatekeepers as being a “medical home”. If there is something wrong‚ i.e. physically or mentally‚ they seek the guidance of gatekeepers‚ just as one can access a concerned family member. As mentioned in “Sick Around the World”‚ people sometimes even go to gatekeepers just to talk. 1C. Does the US use one? How? The UNITED STATES has different views when it comes to the term‚ gatekeeper. When referring to healthcare‚ gatekeepers are used in the same sense
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Wikipedia The Equal Pay Act 1970 is an Act of the United Kingdom Parliament which prohibits any less favourable treatment between men and women in terms of pay and conditions of employment. It was passed by Parliament in the aftermath of the 1968 Ford sewing machinists strike[1][2][3][4] and came into force on 29 December 1975. The term pay is interpreted in a broad sense to include‚ on top of wages‚ things like holidays‚ pension rights‚ company perks and some kinds of bonuses. The legislation has
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I believe that smokers should pay additional fees to health care Firstly‚ there are less chances for people to smoke if they are asked to pay additional fees to the health care. In Sweden‚ there are less rates of smoking in comparison to other countries. According to Bolin and Lindgren (2007)‚ “Certainly‚ smoking behaviour among the Swedish population has changed. In 1980‚ 36% of the men and 33% of the women were daily smokers; the corresponding figures 20 years later were 17% for men and 19% for
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In the article “Here’s Why We Shouldn’t Pay College Athletes” by John Thelin‚ it discusses the topic of paying collegiate athletes getting paid. Thelin takes the position that college athletes should not be getting paid. Thelin does agree with scholarships. During the article Thelin explains why college players shouldn’t be getting paid‚ using numbers that show if they were to legally get paid they would end up only making in the hundreds of dollars and would cost more to the school than just giving
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Internet Access: Flat Fee vs. Pay-Per-Use Most Internet users are either not charged to access information‚ or pay a low-cost flat fee. The Information SuperHighway‚ on the other hand‚ will likely be based upon a pay-per-use model. On a gross level‚ one might say that the payment model for the Internet is closer to that of broadcast (or perhaps cable) television while the model for the Information SuperHighway is likely to be more like that of pay-per-view T.V. "Pay-per-use" environments affect
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Confirming Pages Small-Business Case: Changing the Pay Level at Eight Crossings Based in Sacramento‚ California‚ Eight Crossings provides medical transcription services for physicians and hospitals. Its employees also answer phones‚ edit documents‚ and transcribe legal documents. The company’s 85 employees work either at the service center in Sacramento or in their homes‚ where they receive audio or text files via the Internet. In this way‚ Eight Crossings employees can work in their specialty as
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can go to college regardless of income” (Bernie Sanders). A person’s financial background should not determine whether or not that person can attend college. The purpose of obtaining a higher education is to achieve a higher paying job to ultimately pay off student loans. Student loans can have both positive and negative effects on college students and the economy. Changes can be made to overall improve college students and the economy when it comes to student loans. Provided that student loans are
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