People Express
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This consultation proposes that the overall corporate culture of People Express is steadily eroding. In the face of rapid growth and expansion, the company is also facing decreasing levels of employee satisfaction. The three main problems areas are: management lack of communication; poor work design; unsatisfactory compensation motivators. The various issues encompassed in all three problem areas are addressed. With respect to the main focus of this report, compensation problems are addressed with conclusions, recommendations and long-term outlook. The conclusions express that the two biggest problem areas with compensation at People Express are an unfair pay structure and inadequate gain sharing plans. The conclusion also proposed is that the old system should remain in tact, except for modifying these problem areas, since it has been fairly successful. The recommendations proposed are: adopt gain sharing plans modeled on Starbucks and include stock option plans that are effective and meaningful. Where the future outlook of People Express is concerned, it is recommended that in order for them to acquire the calibre of quality employees they are looking for, and to increase satisfaction in those already working for the company, they must implement compensation plans that offer employees what they originally promised them where ownership and lifelong job security are concerned. Where risk fac
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host of work redesign issues that are problematic, the focus of this consultation is with the compensation issues that are involved in the Human Resource problems at People Express. As such, there are various compensation issues involved that must be addresses, including, but not limited to: adapting factors from existing plans; pay structure; gain sharing plan. The conclusions are that People Express needs to adopt the following conclusions concerning its human resources compensation plan: adapt the old plan but keep its good points; make the pay structure more fairly based; adopt a gain sharing plan.
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The old plan must remain in tact except for the area of gain sharing and fairer pay. One gain sharing plan that could be adopted has been one that seems to have been extremely successful for Starbucks Corp. They have implemented a radical corporate culture known as social vision, based on moral imagination. Certainly People Express employees have performed well in making the company an industry model, and moral imagination might be expected in their gain sharing plans: “Starbucks Corp. is one example of a work place where the company’s social vision -- what one author calls moral imagination -- pays bene
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Approximate Word count = 1664
Approximate Pages = 7 (250 words per page)
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