Lawn Care Leadership

a fundamental labor standard of the highest priority, necessary for building a sustainable, just and

Green and Clean inc. is a lawn care corporation headquartered at 11 Seventh Street, Pelham, NY 10803 in a 100 square foot office. We offer a series of lawn development and upkeep programs devoting attentions to every aspect of turf grass culture. These include lawn maintenance, landscaping, composting, lawn aeration, irrigation services, water saving programs, spot re-seeding, total lawn renovation, soil testing, disease control, de-thatching, grub control, and lime application. All our products and services are positioned at the high end of the market in terms quality, and the mid to small scale end in terms of size and price. What sets us apart from other businesses is we are 100% customer service oriented. Green and Clean inc. will

The working conditions, wage rates, working hours and gender issues should be taken into account.

carefully planned out and considered, the total closure or failure of the organization could be at hand in the near future. In our modern age, employers know that salary is not the only factor that should be considered and that salary alone will not lead to better or more highly profitable workers alone. This is why compensation planning is important and why pay should have some connection between performance and compensation. This is why the human resources department should consider many monetary and non-monetary factors when considering how to properly compensate and motivate employees (Dessler, 2013).

Landscapers are responsible for maintaining the grounds landscaped by using modern power equipment as well as traditional handheld tools. Employees in this family business perform a series of tasks and can include a mixture of the following: mowing, planting, laying sod, fertilizing, watering, raking, digging, installing sprinkler systems, repairing existing sprinklers, and laying concrete borders outlining flower and bush beds.

This research paper will be addressing minimum wage and the comparison and correlation of it from when it was first instituted through the Fair Labor Act of 1938 to now in 2015. This paper will also go into the inequality of pay concerning women as well. Some factors that I’m focusing on are instances that have affected minimum wage, firstly the affect that unions had in guaranteeing the continuing rise of minimum wage along with inflation until it began to stagnate in the 1970s, which seemed to happen in correlation with the decline of companies encouraging unions; and, secondly what has happened to the work force as a result of women transitioning from free home and domestic work to paid jobs in the market place in such great numbers.

The salary rates the business is presently paying for the individual positions fall well within the wage cure; however, modifications will be as followed:

In this essay I will be discussing minimum wage legislation and minimum wage. I will be defining minimum wage and explains what minimum wage legislation is. This essay will be answering question like what is the minimum wage law, and why was it made a law in the U.S. or what minimum wage pay rate would I like to see as the minimum wage rate. I also will be discussing the reason why fast food workers are seeking a higher minimum wage. I will be using the book compensation by Milkovich and the internet to apply facts and answers to this paper.

The implementation of the Fair Work Act 2009 which came into force on January 1st 2010, was to create a national workplace relations system for the purpose of setting wages and conditions of employment. This legislation is overlooked by the Fair Work Commission and ombudsman, whose role is to maintain a safety net of minimum wages and conditions and ensure compliance with the Fair Work Act. The creation of the Fair Work Act (2009) is to regulate business cooperation’s for the purpose of providing safety nets for minimum wages and entitlements, flexible working arrangements and ensure fairness at the workplace. Under the Fair Work Act 2009, ten National Employment Standards

In this globalization era, as various countries see growth in their economy, there has also been significant differences in the wages set to employees in different countries. The lowest wages set by the law that are fixed to a particular amount which is also defined to be the price floor below which workers shall not sell their labor, has its own effects. The minimum wage law came into force as a matter of social justice amongst the low-wage workers, also to reduce exploitation and see that workers can afford the standard basic living expenses and necessities, not to increase the unemployment rate, indeed to increase the employment rate.

Author L. Kunel’skii who in which wrote “The Socioeconomic Significance of Raising the Minimum Wage” Stated in his article, “... the mechanism of wage organization makes it possible to implement the preferential increase of the minimum wage.” (Kunel’skii 43). In this article he was implying, that in order to do such an increase , there needs to be expansion of payments and benefits from social funds, and they as a government need to build good conditions for family to live in well being. He then later adds in the article “Wages reflect relationships among people that are formed in the production process. Under capitalism, wages constitute a transformed form of value of the price of labor power.” (Kunel’skii 44). This is the basic definition of a “wage”, in a society this number may vary based on the amount of labor needed, as well as the population of a

2. For the purpose of this article, "pay" means the ordinary basic or minimum wage or salary and any other consideration, whether in cash or in kind, which the worker receives directly or indirectly, in respect of his employment, from his employer.<</p>

Some organizations are unwilling to show their reward systems and pay policies (Lawler, 1995). Many Human Resources professionals believe gender pay gaps to be resolvable through the monitoring of pay levels and communication (Report on Salary Surveys).Greater pay transparency has been a great benefit to the board, employees and managers as they now know what is happening across the business and they are able to confidently justify their actions (Commission Policy Report).All market-related supplements are recorded and reviewed separately from basic salary to ensure openness and transparency. Regular research market rates within the various labor markets in which they operate is undertaken improving transparency would also help to improve talent development, as employees would be able to see what they could earn if they wanted to move to another division and upgrade their skill set. (Commission Policy Report).

INDUSTRY ANALYSIS ago” (Warnica, 2012). The fact that wages in the industry are high means workers have the

The purpose of this report was to conduct a thorough analysis of Lawn cares operations management process and address whether Lawn Cares introduction to an application service would be beneficial or detrimental to the company as a whole. The evaluation of the effects an application service would have on Lawn cares strategic mission, strategy, competitive priorities, value chain and its customer sustainability has indicated that the introduction of an application service would, although cause an initial financial loss, ultimately benefit Lawn cares revenue and future stability. Through the use of diagrams and models, it was found that although Lawn care may suffer initial loss in terms of