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Unit 3 Assignment In this Assignment, you return to the subject of how compensation programs can be aligned to help an organization gain and maintain a competitive advantage in the marketplace. Utilizing your Final's organization, answer the following questions in a 2-3 page paper: 1. Describe your selected organization's business strategy including mission, values, and goals. Identify its strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats, and competitors. What is your selected organization's current position in their marketplace? 2. From what you have researched thus far about your selected organization, does it use compensation as a means to increase and sustain a competitive advantage? If so, how? If not, how could they? 3. Evaluate how your organization's pay strategy meets (or fails to meet) the three tests for sustained competitive advantage that are introduced in Chapter 2 of your text. 4. Define internal alignment, and discuss why it is an important policy in compensation. (Examine the components of internal alignment, analyze how internal alignment is an important policy in compensation, discuss the usefulness of internal alignment in compensation plans) 5. If your organization was expanding to a foreign country, how would you determine competitive pay rates for the new location? Conduct research on the cost of living in one major international city. How do the rates compare to the local rates? To successfully complete the paper, the following are the minimum requirements:  Complete a 2-3 page paper in APA format - 12 point font, double-spaced, indented paragraphs, citations, reference list, etc.  Include introductory and summary paragraphs.  Limit the use of direct quotations - instead, paraphrase and cite the author's work. Reinforce your personal opinions with at least two credible or scholarly research articles (not to exceed 20% of content).  Demonstrate your understanding of the weekly objective(s) through your response.

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Compensation Programs at Apple Inc
Apple Inc is a technology company that has built a reputation for innovation and quality.
It is the leader in information technology with the largest cash reserves and it second to Samsung
Company in the mobile telephony. The human resource a company have and the organisational
capability are part of the competitive advantage. Apple Inc has the following competitive
advantage of innovative products, security features and simplicity of use.
The SWOT analysis of Apple Inc
The strength of Apple Inc lies on the capacity to develop innovative products that are
popular with the premium market. Secondly, the organisational ability emanating from the
quality of human resources controlled by Apple Inc. enables it to maintain market leadership and
competitiveness. Keeping high-quality human resources calls for a competitive remuneration
scheme that is attractive to employees and helps retain them within the organisational culture.
The limitation and weakness of Apple are the limited distribution channels due to its choice of
niche premium markets (Coccia et al., 2017).
The Opportunities available to Appl...


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