You have just finished reading an article in a personnel journal about compensation plans. The turnover rate in your firm is too high, especially the cost of losing experienced employees. The CEO has indicated there is a 50% chance the budget for a new compensation plan would be available next year. You must decide which compensation plan warrants further study by your HR staff. Each study costs $3,000 and will be automatically charged against your budget as "Incident Cost" in your Budget Analysis and Report. You may only choose one response from the options given below; if the one you choose pertains only to production workers, you may assume that another system would also be instituted for management. a. A system based on the relative worth of jobs.
b. Many feel that higher level employees perform sufficiently different work and should be paid at a higher rate.
c. This may be contributing to an unspoken morale problem.
d. This system may help protect the firm against discrimination claims, as equal work would be paid equal pay.