Case Study: Geico
Assignment 1: Case Study GEICO
HRM 533
Linda Matthews
April 28, 2013
Dr. Jean Gordon
Case Study : Geico 1
1. Determine which facets of the Geico total rewards program align with the five (5) top advantages of a total rewards program outlined in Chapter 2 of the textbook and discuss your reasoning. Geico offers a variety of benefits programs just to name a few would be: medical, dental and vision coverage. This program also includes work/life balance programs and physical fitness program (http://careers.geico.com).
Geico believes in benefiting their employees’ life long learning and encouraging their employees to continue to
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Recommend two (2) areas for improvement. *Employees should be given a confidential employee survey about the total rewards package. *Employee should be able to discuss the total reward package to Geico, for employees want to be heard. Employees expect something to happen once they share their opinions with management. They like being part of the conversation and seeing action from their feedback (Talent Management, 2012, pg. 28).
*From these confidential surveys Geico should be better able to improve these programs. Case Study: Geico 4
4. Assuming employees are unhappy with the current plan, offer two (2) improvements or or changes to Geico’s total rewards program. * Geico need to continue to enhance its total reward packages by having effective training, more seminars, regular meeting with employees pertaining to the existing total reward package. *Geico should continue to improve their total reward packages to meet everyone needs in order to keep the employees happy. *Geico must improve and continue to strive for new total reward packages or upgrade the total reward packages they have. 5. Use at least five (5) quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and Other websites do not qualify as academic resources. Workplace: Planting the seeds
Use at least two (2) quality academic resources in this assignment. Note:Wikipedia and other Websites do not qualify as quality academic resources.
Use at least two (2) quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not qualify as academic resources.
Out of the many appeals that companies use to advertise their product or service, the need to achieve is one of the most commonly seen. In our highly competitive society, everybody is trying to get ahead. Everybody is looking for that little advantage that will push them forward. The appeal of achievement correlates with success and winning, ideas that represent the outcomes of hard work on which people like to pride themselves. In many of their ads, Geico likes to tap into our competitive nature by offering us incentives, such as saving time and money, which speak specifically to our consumer culture. Such a tactic proves to be effective because for the most part, consumers in our ambitious society
2. Formulate a total rewards strategy to encompass the fundamentals of compensation and the regulatory environments.
Determine which facets of the GEICO total rewards program align with the five (5) top advantages of a total rewards program outlined in Chapter 2 of the textbook and discuss your reasoning.
There is also training that assist the employee to enhance their current job skills and or to advance them to the next level within the organization. The organizations have scholarships that are awarded to kids that are applying for college. They also have their own school called Geico University. This school has classes that benefit the employees looking to acquire new job skills and those that want to pursue other careers ("Total Reward Program", 1996-2016). Financial and retirement benefit through Geico insurance are 401k.
For this assignment; we have been asked to design the company's new Total Rewards package with the objective of attracting and retaining the best talent. The first thing we have, to do is perform some background research on best practices for benefit design. I am personally researching nonprofit organization benefits and I am currently taking over the position as HR person for the company.
Finally, the current Scanlon plan, while initially successful, has many design flaws. The plan currently pays out bonuses so regularly that workers began to perceive the bonus as part of their regular paycheck, instead of associating the bonus with their own increased efforts (“Engstrom”, 2008, p. 2). Thus, the plan, which originally was designed based on positive reinforcement, used a method of continuous rewarding, which reduces the durability of its results (Bauer & Erdogan, 2013, p. 112).
In the society that we live in, it is always changing. It has change in so many ways from doing everything by hand to using technology for mostly everything. Then you have the different ways we pay our bills, most people do everything online instead of mail or going into a business. Lastly, you have the way companies use to operate to recruit, hire, train and retain employees. The way they use to do it back in the days is nowhere near how they do it now. It has change extremely so much. So we going to examine how a company name GEICO total reward program look like and what they offer to recruit and retain employees.
Leo and Lillian Goodwin established GEICO in 1936, and as of today GEICO’S assets have reached up to $32 billion. GEICO was created during the Great Depression even though this was a time when companies weren’t being encouraged to start up. GEICO was originally established as the Government Employees Insurance Company. When the company was first established, Lillian Goodwin, initially addressed people who were enlisted as a military officer and/or federal employee. GEICO had written 3,700 policies and hired 12 staff members, a year after this. Ever since then, the company has grown incredibly and continues to look forward to even more growth in the years to come.
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These rewards help employees to become motivated towards their work and encourage them to work hard and focus on striving for the same goals. This will cause the business to do well, which will
financing from EFL. She wondered whether it was possible to achieve EFL’s targets by opening only Roma or only Corral outlets. Prosad Singh also reported that his marketing manager had recently confirmed the new loyalty points program which had been launched in early fiscal 2011 was turning out to be very successful. Singh reminded everyone that the program is available through all the restaurants (and the coffee shops, if the plan proceeds). Customers earn one point for every $10 spent. The points are accumulated and the customer can then redeem the points on meals in the restaurants. The redemption is as follows: 100 points represent $5. So the value of each point is $0.05 for future purchases. At June 30, 2011, customers had accumulated about 20 million points which translates into a future obligation to redeem the points worth $1,000,000 (5 cents per point). The adjustment for this loyalty points program has not yet been made on the 2011
The next strategy focuses on increasing sales by 13% over the next three years. We are going to implement a customer reward program to boost our sales. By rewarding shoppers with discounts, we can encourage customers to return more frequently. This strategy will also influence customers to buy more while they are here. We could incorporate a discount card much like a debit card and it records your current discounts on groceries. The discounts can be in percentages and increase as the shopper spends.
Rewards are important within the performance management system because it provides a connection from the employee to the success of the company. One idea to increase this connection is to create a program to reward ideas that are turned into cost-savings or new revenue streams for the company not