Assignment
Research compensation and benefits options within the healthcare industry
Instructions
You will need to conduct an interview with a compensation specialist in any health care setting. Give a brief description of the health care setting and the person you interviewed for this Assignment. During the interview utilize at a minimum the questions below. Provide additional substantive information related to the topic. You will summarize your results in a written report (4-5 pages in length not including the Cover Page and Bibliography, APA formatted, Cover Page, and Bibliography).
Requirements
You may also interview managers that do not have a compensation specialist in their health care setting. Questions to include:
• How do you determine wages and salary levels for your employees?
• How do you ensure that the pay you offer is adequate to attract the types of employees you need?
• How do you ensure that pay is perceived as fair?
• Do job applicants or employees ever negotiate for pay?
• How do you handle the negotiation process?
• Do you ever pay hiring bonuses?
• Have you ever thought of changing pay systems? Why?
• Do you offer any incentives to your employees?
• What are they and how do they work?
Identify a position you would be interested within your career goal. Locate the salary information for this position and contrast it within a geographic location or within various healthcare settings. You may contact professional associations, check out websites, review employment ads, or call compensation specialists at companies that hire health care staff.