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Part 1: A Pay Model
Employees differ in terms of what motivates them most. Aspects of pay, or total compensation, which motivate younger workers might differ from what motivates older workers, for example. Companies can motivate employees best when they are aware of what best motivates their particular employees.
In addition to this week’s reading, visit the Library or use your favorite search engine and search for the following: determining a motivating salary. Learn about pay and salary issues that can contribute to employee motivation. Please relate anything useful from the article as it relates to this discussion.
Describe an organization that you were or are currently employed within terms of total compensation and relational returns. Explain how this combination of total compensation and relational returns did, or did not, help the organization succeed.
Part 2: Strategic Perspectives
The decisions companies have to make about four policy issues influence the alignment of their pay strategy with their business strategy.
Provide an example of each of the four policy issues in the pay model presented in the text.
Compare the strategic business-based “best fit” and the alternative “best practices” perspectives in compensation. Are these perspectives necessarily divergent?

A case will be given by your instructor on private-public partnership project, followed by several
questions. Your job is to apply relevant theories you have learnt in the context of challenges faced by
MNCs in the given host country.
Answer all of the questions given in the case study and format into an essay (800 words, +/- 10%)
The essay needs to be uploaded to the SafeAssign Drop Box on Learn JCU before the due date.

As a manager, whether you’re a store, facilities, or a general manager in any type of environment, your teams work to meet the strategic direction of the organization. As strategic initiatives are adopted, you and your team may need to adapt to new directions. Change can be hard, and your team and your organization rely on your understanding of the organizational culture to support change.
In this assessment, you will use your experience and the organizational change chart you completed in Week 1 to assess the organization’s culture to improve alignment among the culture, mission, vision, values, and strategies using Kotter’s 8-step change management model. You provide your assessment including how proposed decisions for improvements align to the organization’s mission, vision, values, and strategies to the leadership team.
Assessment Deliverable
Create a 7- to 10-slide presentation to the leadership of the organization you chose to explore in Week 1. Refer to your Organizational Change Chart from Week 1 and include the following:
Describe your assessment of the current culture within the organization at the time of your experience. Refer to the organizational change chart you completed in Week 1 to describe your assessment.
Develop a Change Management Plan using Kotter’s 8-Step model for the change goal you identified. Refer to the suggested actions for improvement you included in the Organizational Change Chart.
Determine the desired outcome as a result of the proposed change.
Analyze the alignment among the organization’s mission, vision, values, strategies, and the proposed Change Management Plan.
Include speaker notes to provide additional details not already present on each slide.