Instructions Based on the company you selected in unit 1 and the content of this

Instructions
Based on the company you selected in unit 1 and the content of this unit, answer the following case study questions:
How Do Strategic Decisions Influence a Compensation Package?
What type of person do you think might be attracted to work in an organization that has relatively low wages but extensive benefits?
hat are some reasons why an organization might use incentives other than commissions to compensate a sales force?
County General Hospital
County General Hospital is a 200‐bed facility located approximately 150 miles outside Chicago. It is a regional hospital that draws patients from surrounding farm communities. Like most hospitals, County General Hospital faces the difficult task of providing quality care at a reasonable cost.
One of the most difficult obstacles encountered by the hospital is finding and retaining qualified nurses. The annual turnover rate among nurses is nearly 100 percent. A few of the nurses are long‐term employees who are either committed to County General Hospital or attached to the community. Employment patterns suggest that many of the nurses who are hired stay for only about six months. In fact, County General Hospital often appears to be a quick stop between graduation from college and a better job.
Many who leave acknowledge that they were contacted by another hospital that offered them more money. Exit interviews with nurses who are leaving similarly suggest that low pay is a concern. Another concern is the lack of social atmosphere for young nurses. Nurses just finishing college complain that the community does not provide them enough opportunity to meet and socialize with others their age.
Hospital administrators are afraid that paying higher wages will cause financial disaster. Big insurance companies and Medicaid make it difficult for them to increase the amount they charge patients. However, the lack of stability in the nursing staff has caused some noticeable problems. Nurses sometimes appear to be ignorant of important hospital procedures. Doctors also complain that they spend a great deal of time training nurses to perform procedures, only to see those nurses take their new skills someplace else.
JOB DESCRIPTION: NURSE
Administer prescribed medications or start intravenous fluids, noting times and amounts on patients’ charts.
Observe patients, charting and reporting changes in patients’ conditions, such as adverse reactions to medication or treatment, and taking any necessary action.
Answer patients’ calls and determine how to assist them.
Measure and record patients’ vital signs, such as height, weight, temperature, blood pressure, pulse, or respiration.
Provide basic patient care or treatments, such as taking temperatures or blood pressures, dressing wounds, treating bedsores, giving enemas or douches, rubbing with alcohol, massaging, or performing catheterizations.
Work as part of a healthcare team to assess patient needs, plan and modify care, and implement interventions.
Supervise nurses’ aides or assistants.
Evaluate nursing intervention outcomes, conferring with other healthcare team members as necessary.
Assemble and use equipment, such as catheters, tracheotomy tubes, or oxygen suppliers.
Record food and fluid intake and output.
Collect samples, such as blood, urine, or sputum from patients, and perform routine laboratory tests on samples.
Prepare patients for examinations, tests, or treatments and explain procedures.
Note: Job description information obtained from https://www.onetonline.org/