Stratford University Southwest Airline Business Competitive Strategy Paper

Investigate HR policies to prevent or mitigate loss and ensure business continuity.

This includes investigating policies and issues surrounding:

• • • • • • • • • • Personnel risk (fraud and error), Physical assets (business 
environments), Relationships (lawsuits), External/regulatory 
(external fraud)
                  • Watch Human Resource Fundamentals (Lynda)
                  • Review FMLA Essentials (LIRN)
                  • Investigate compensation laws, including types of employees, primary 
duty, executive exemption, administrative exemption, professional exemption, computer employee, and sales employee. Social Security, unemployment insurance, workers compensation
                    • • http://www.dol.gov/dol/topic/ (provides list of links for multiple areas of compensation)
                  • Investigate child labor laws. While these will often vary in other countries, many companies follow their home country policy unless it is less restrictive.
                    • • http://www.dol.gov/dol/topic/youthlabor/ and
                  • What are the laws surrounding equal pay and minimum wage? What happens when you do business or open a branch of the company overseas?
                    • • http://www.dol.gov/whd/minwage/america.htm and
                  • Retirement Equity Act and COBRA
                    • • http://www.dol.gov/dol/topic/
                      • US Department of Labor- COBRA
                      • Retirement Equity Act and COBRA
                  • Medical Insurance, Medicare, and ACA
                    • • http://www.medicare.gov/ 
and
                      • http://www.hhs.gov/healthcare/rights/
                      • ACA

2. Create Napkin Pitches

This will allow you a quick way to summarize the new concepts and communicate it consistently to stakeholders. (See Step 10 for detailed directions)

• • • • • • Choose one of you concepts and lay it out as a napkin pitch
          • Watch Communicating with Confidence (Lynda)
          • Watch Giving an Elevator Pitch (Lynda)

3. Upload a recorded Napkin Pitch or Present your Napkin Pitch live to your instructor.