Pension Case Studies Samples For Students

Background

ConsoE has recently acquired Expeer, an electrical company based in Austin, Texas with 15,000 employees. Expeer’s benefits package for its employees has traditionally been extensive and comprehensive when compared to what ConsoE offers. A tactical plan to communicate the change in benefits structure for the incoming former Expeer employees is crucial to help them understand and adjust to the new order.

Issue Identification and Root-Cause Analysis

The employees of Expeer get very high benefits that are significantly different from what is offered by the Consolidated Electronics. The benefits include a fully paid ten different health insurance plans, a 401k plus 3% match ...

1. Summary of the Case Study
Rich Ferlauto, Director of Corporate Governance and Pension Investment, states that their main objective is identifying new ways of corporate governance that involves the imbalance of power between the board members and the shareholders, and gets that imbalance accepted by other investors. Once the company is identified, they make sure that they get an appropriate response. Rich Ferlauto sought a proposal in the spring of 2007 to give a yearly advisory vote on the compensation of executives. As a director of the monetary funds in the American State, he was responsible for keeping the pension ...

As the human resource representative of the company, I received a detailed letter from the two of our former employees John Smith and Mark Koney about how the company is handling their retirement issue. The two feel discriminated and isolated and as they are no longer treated as people who were assets to the company. Mark Koney and John Smith worked for our company for a span of over 30 years and retired two years ago after attained the mandatory retirement age. Since leaving the company two years ago, they have not received any communication from the management regarding ...

Introduction

Molson Coors Brewing Company (MCBC), a multinational company dealing with alcoholic and non-alcoholic products has three major operating segments. MCBC operating segments are in Canada, Unites Kingdom, Unites states of America, and Molson Coors International.

The company was incorporated in the year 2005, after a merger between Molson and Coor brewing companies. The company has a wide portfolio of products including Carling, Molson Canadian, and Coor Light, and produces partner brands such as Heineken. The company mission is to provide consumers with high quality beers designed to appeal to wide range of consumer tastes, preferences and occasions.
A SWOT matrix is ...

The relation between unions and Management has been the subject of many studies and researches primarily because of the controversial nature of interaction between the two. Union management relations have never been very cordial and the two have often been entangled in fierce conflicts understandably because of a conflict of interests. However the situation has changed considerably following interventions from Government bodies regarding fair wages, improved working conditions and other welfare policies. In spite of an effort to improve labor management relations, there are cases where dissatisfied workers resort to unionizing to force management to accept their demands. The ...

Summary

The last few decades did not have a harmonious environment for the airline industry in the United States. Filled with bankruptcies, unpopular cost cutting measures, and reports of unreasonable compensation scales for the higher management ranks, the US airline industry steadily declined losing almost eighty percent of the profits they generated from the 1950s to the 1970s. The unions in the airline industry hold the ability to direct the industry out of its trouble-filled years. They have the workforce strength that can cooperate with the respective managements in restructuring plans. They also have the power to protest misuse of ...

Identifying the problem

Climate conditions
The Northern region of British Columbia has unfavorable climate conditions (Spooner et al. 2002). Most employees prefer to work in areas where climate conditions are favorable. According to the information given by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the region experiences unequivocal climate system. This problem is brought about by human activities in the region that include the locals releasing greenhouse gases by burning fossil fuels. The region also experiences negative agricultural practices and deforestation, all of which create climatic conditions that are unfavorable. According to reports such as the Fourth Assessment, further emission of the ...

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Gross domestic product of a commodity is its value in relation to the market price of that particular country, and it also indicated the living standards of that particular nation. The value of the gross domestic product can, however, is calculated using different formulae and they are; using the income, expenditure and production methods.
GDP=C+G+I+NX. C is the consumed product or the amount spent by the consumer; G is the total value spent by the government, I, the total of all the business expenditures of the county and NX is the net profits ...

The legal issue of ABC partners entailed negligence having set a company beyond their jurisdiction and failed to register a company. ABC is liable to pay damages to Robert Knight. This case is tortuous liability due to the wrongful act of abandoning an oil well and failing to secure a place. This results in Robert having an injury due to the negligent act. The legal rule of Tort holds that one who suffers in case of negligence of another party can claim damages. In this case, ABC partners owe a duty of care to Robert Knight who suffers injury due to their act ...