Essays on Pay Equity

Compensation is the payment offered by an employer to an employee in exchange of the services received from him. Mostly compensation is monetary but it may include certain non monetary facilities such as housing, conveyance, insurance etc. Compensation is further divided into two general types: Direct and Indirect compensation. Direct compensation includes base wage, incentives, bonus, leave encashment etc. while indirect compensation is designed to provide additional benefits such as social security, health insurance etc and does not vary with performance. Designing a compensation plan that is satisfactory to all is a major challenge for the Human Resource Management ...

Introduction

Background In the contemporary business environment, the role of Human Resources has become a crucial and important component. Many traditional perceptions suggest that the HR is only perceived as a department to source and acquired new talents. However, most of the HR activities are far beyond the sourcing and employing the new employees. Human Resources Managers are involved in planning, coordinating, and directing the administrative responsibilities of the organization. According to Bach and Edwards (2013), human resources management allows organization and establishment of employment conditions that allows the employees to achieve the desired productive output while satisfying a wide ...

Introduction

HRM is defined as the process of planning, establishing, directing and supervising human actions in order to achieve the goals and objectives of the organization (Dessler, 5). Ethics on the other hand, refers to values that have been imbibed within individuals in an organization that enable them to act accordingly and differentiate between right and wrong. There are many sources of ethics such as organizational culture, legal obligations and religion among others. Ethics in HRM indicates that employees should be treated with distributive justice and ordinary decency (Dessler, 28). Fair treatment of the employees contributes greatly to the attainment ...

Introduction

With the national average of women’s salaries currently, 77% of men’s salaries for the same position determine that there is discrimination in gender pay in our society that needs to be addressed. Working in the Education/Corrections system, we often see women overlooked for positions that they are as qualified for or even more qualified for in some cases than their male co-workers. I would like to investigate the evaluation process to determine if there is discrimination that may be a factor in the pay difference of gender. Another research documenting on the gender and double standards through ...

Women have been portrayed to be weaker than men by the media and society, in general. They have been shown to be less valuable in the workplace, with most media showing them as deserving the smaller roles in the workplace. These aspects, coupled with other factors have led to the characteristic wage gap between men and women in the work place. All over the world, women receive less compensation for their work than men do. For instance in the US, women at the same level as men make on average 22% less or 77 cents on the dollar (Cames, ...

1. HIV is regarded as a disability under ADA act, categorized under physical disability from time of infection, persons with HIV are taken to be more infectious this makes them be taken as disabled, also a wide protection is guaranteed to positive persons. Interpretation of the ADA act deals with persons with HIV/AIDS, it allows provisions for people with disability either you were born while disabled or accidents. A disable person can work and participate in daily routines. Under the ADA a bill was passed to allow persons with disability are involved in day to day programs in society with no unequal ...

Human Rights Framework Will Eventually Alleviate All Forms of Violence against Women

The major main forms of violence against women are battery, rape, domestic abuse among others. Although sex is enjoyable at sometimes it needs to be understood that rape is forced and the consent of the woman is not needed in order to engage in the act. Men are the main abusers of the rights of women and women over the years have had to come together in order to ensure that men do not take advantage of their vulnerability. Although in some countries it has borne fruit, it is worth noting that in most other countries things are not ...

Current Events in Business

A fair wage or salary is usually determined by several factors in the business field. The market and the businesses in it usually set the managers’ salaries (Austin, 2010). One of the major factors that influence the amount of salary a business manager earns is the level of education of the employee. For example, workers who have an associate’s degree, a bachelor degree and a Master’s Degree are not usually paid the same amount of salary. In most cases, the higher the level of academic qualifications, the higher the salary/ wage. Another factor that organizations can use to determine a fair ...

“The Other Gender Gap: Why Women Still Fail to Receive Comparable Wages for Comparable Work”, is a literary masterpiece by Naomi Barko, and describes the reasons why women still fail to receive comparable wages for comparable work despite possessing similar skills and experience as their male counterparts .The literary work also gives possible solution she recommends to deal with this issue of gender inequality in places of work (Lunsford and Ruszkiewicz 621).

In her literary work, Naomi Barko poses the question/problem that in the contemporary society, women and men are not similarly paid for equal work. The author emphasizes that ...