Acme Manafacturing

Acme Manufacturing

Answer the questions to the case, "Salary Inequities at Acme Manufacturing," at the end of Chapter 7. Include at least one outside source supporting your answers. Explain your answers in 200 words. Respond to at least two of your fellow students' postings.

What would you do if you were Black? Why?

Mr. Black recently assumed the position as President over Acme Manufacturing. Although, he had a MBA and a Law degree with 15 years of experience in management under his belt, he had no idea what he had walked into. Shortly after Mr. Black realized that there was inequity in the pay schedule for salaried employees. Mr. Black had his work cut-out for him. He had to devise a plan to solve the salary problem in the business, without causing additional problems for Acme that could later turn into a class action lawsuit. If I was Mr. Black, first off I would call the three supervisors into the office to discuss the situation with them privately. I would let them know that I am fully aware of the past issues with their salaries. Next, I would apologize to all of the female supervisors for the inequities. Then, offer to immediately increase their salaries to the same as all male supervisors. (Dessler, 2011)

How do you think the company got into this situation in the first place?

Well it’s obvious that the reason why the Acme Manufacturing is in the situation that there in is because of the former Founder/President Bill George. Mr. George had been in charge of his company for 35 years. Thirty-five years ago things were very different. “There were no similar supervisory jobs with both male and female job incumbents” (Dessler, 2011). According to our textbook, It stated “When asked the Human Resources Director said she thought the female supervisors may have been paid at a lower rate mainly because they were women and perhaps Bill George did not think that women needed as much money because they had working husbands”(Dessler, 2011 p230). The HR Director...