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PSY 4416:        Tentative Schedule (From Spring 2019)
4416 Attendance Exams Grades Outcomes Policies Schedule

Spring 2019 - Subject to Change!
Last Updated 5/28/20


Date Topic Text Chpt. Notes
January 14 Course Overview    
16 Total Compensation 1
  18 Strategy & Compensation 2  
  20 Last Day to Drop/Add a Course    
  21 Martin Luther King Holiday
  23 Strategy & Compensation 2 Merrill Lynch Case
  25 Internal Alignment 3 Your Turn: So You Want to Lead...
  28 Test 1 4  
  30 Job  Analysis & Job-Based Structures 4  
February 1 Job Evaluation 5  
  4 Job Evaluation 5  
  6 Alternative Systems:  Person-Based Structures 6 Whole Foods Case
  8 Attending Legislative Assembly I - No Class    
11 Test 2     
13 External Competitiveness & "The Market" 7  
15 Designing Compensation Surveys 8  
  18 Analysis and Interpretation of Survey Results 8 Google Evolving Pay
  20 Class Time to Work on Compensation Survey    
22 Pay Levels & Structures 8 Survey Due
  25 Pay-for-Performance Systems 9 Burger Boy Case
27 Pay-for-Performance Systems 10
March 1 Test 3   Midterm Grades Due
  4-8 Spring Break    
  11 Performance Appraisal and Pay 11 Begin Fall 2019 Registration
  13 Mandated Benefits:  Social Security & Medicare 13  
  15 Mandated Benefits:  Workers' Compensation 13  
18 Mandated Benefits:  Unemployment Insurance 13
  20 Mandated Benefits:  FMLA & PPACA 13 Adapting Benefits
  22 Non-Mandated Benefits 13  
  25 Test 4    
  27 Board Compensation 14  
  29 Executive Compensation 14 Last Day to Withdraw
April 1 Sales Force Compensation 14 A Sports Sales Plan
  3 Compensation of Contingent Workers 14  
  5 Compensation in Unionized Settings 15  
  8 Compensation in Unionized Settings 15 Contract's Clauses
  10 Test 5    
  12 Pay at the International Level 16
  15 Pay at the International Level 16 English Premier League
  17 Legal Context 17  
19 Legal Context 17 "Gaga's Slave"
22 Legal Context 17 Extra Credit Summaries Due
  24 Equity Across Levels    
  26 Attending Legislative Assembly II - No Class II    
  29 Catch-Up Day    
May 1 Test 6 - Wednesday - 10:15 AM