Situation: One other significant problem plagued the engineering departments at TRP. Because of past salary increase practices, there is now a high salary gap between the engineer management levels and the engineering designers. For the same long working hours, those working in the operational levels (e.g., payroll, accounting, HR) made almost 15 times less than the engineering designers. These same operational level employees also made 25 times less than the engineering management groups. Alternative Courses of Action for  payment gap between workers with the same working hours: ?  Pros: ?  Cons: ?

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Situation: One other significant problem plagued the engineering departments at TRP. Because of
past salary increase practices, there is now a high salary gap between the engineer
management levels and the engineering designers. For the same long working hours, those
working in the operational levels (e.g., payroll, accounting, HR) made almost 15 times less than
the engineering designers. These same operational level employees also made 25 times less
than the engineering management groups.

Alternative Courses of Action for  payment gap between workers with the same working hours: ? 

Pros: ? 

Cons: ?

 

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