Question

Legislation was introduced in Congress in 2005 (the Fair Pay Act) to require internal equity for Federal workers, and similar legislation has been discussed for the private sector. To date, this legislation has received little support.

Are you in favor of fair-pay type legislation to equalize the pay between men and women? Why or why not?

If you were to make a case for your position, what job evaluation principles would you apply and why? What internal and external equity principles would you use to explain your position? Justify your chosen position by analysis, reasoning, and example.

Answer 1

Yes I do favour the fair pay legislation to equalise the pay between men and women and in my opinion this law should be implemented in both private as well as public organizations. As it has been found that even today there are many discriminatory employment policies still followed by many organizations thus making it a dire requirement for such act to be imposed for regulating the business. Because many businesses intentionally or unintentionally have been discriminating among employees on various basis among which gender inequality had always been evident in most of the organizations where promotion opportunities or compensation does not equalise to men.

The various job evaluation principles that I would apply will be :

Anti discriminatory basis of job evaluation which will pay compensation irrespective of gender, religion, ethnicity, race etc.

Rating the job being performed and not the men, to avoid any bias, prejudices, stereotypes, etc.

Job understanding should exist to ensure that job is evaluated with paying attention to details and not just randomly.

Job evaluation need to be performed by experts who have clear knowledge about desired performance that should be expected from the job.

These principles will ensure that job evaluation is done on genuine and rational basis rather than on discriminatory measures or wrong evaluation.

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The internal and external equity principles that I will use to explain the position are:

Internal equity :

The inputs put by the employees in the form of hard work, efforts, time, skills, knowledge, competence etc should equal to the outputs in the form of compensation, benefits incentives, recognition etc.

Moreover this input to output ratio should inturn should be equal to the referant groups ie coworkers, colleagues, peers etc working on same level or position.

Reasoning :

This will ensure that organisations are not discriminating inside the organization among the employees on any basis., may it be gender or anything other.

For example:

If Me Andrew is being paid $15000 on the position of junior Executive Manager then Maria should be also paid $15000 for working on the position of junior executive manager as the post is same and level of responsibilities will also be the same

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External equity :

The compensation being provided to the employees for a particular job and for a given working hours should equal to the industrial average and thus should be considerably near to what is being provided in the market for the same nature of job and for same working hours.

Reasoning:

This external equity principle will ensure that employees of the organizations do not feel like they are being paid less than that being provided to others, in other organizations for the same job.

Example :

If the industrial average is $35000 for the position of Assistant Manager and others organizations offer $30000 to $39000 then the compensation for ABC organization should be near to $36000 snd likewise to ensure they employees feel that they are paid fairly.

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