Assignment: Guest Speaker Prep: Monique Anderson, L Brandshttps://www.linkedin.com/in/monique-anderson-914a1a50/Purpose:To investigate background of our guest speakers.To investigate current retail news, focusing on company of guest speaker, and/or implications of events/trends on their company.To practice being curious by developing and asking thoughtful, insightful questions of retail industry practitioners, questions that will enhance your knowledge of the field.Procedure:Search for information about the guest speaker. Pay attention to experiences in the speaker’s background that relate to the retail industry.Search for information about the guest speaker’s company, including both history and recent news about the company.Develop a list of 3-5 questions relating to career matters, general retail knowledge (relevant to course content) and recent company news. Questions should ask about information that is not obvious from publicly available information.Compose a document (one-page maximum (not including reference list), single-spaced):Summarizing information about the speaker using terminology from the course.Summarizing information about the speaker’s company/industry events relevant to speaker’s company using terminology from the course.Listing your questions.Grading: Each Guest Speaker Prep is worth 10 points.Scoring:Excellent (10)Acceptable (8)Unacceptable (6)Company & speaker backgroundSummary of speaker’s & company’s background informative and includes recent newsSummary of speaker’s & company’s background adequateSummary of speaker’s & company’s background uninformativeQuestionsQuestions highly relevant to courseQuestions fairly relevant to courseQuestions not relevant to courseProfessionalDocument is concise and professional and does not exceed one page.Document is somewhat concise and professional and does not exceed one page.Document is not concise/professional and/or exceeds one page.

Module 02 ContentThe Lollipop Company, Inc. needs your help with the current compensation and benefits plan. Leadership expects you to use your evaluation skills, combined with or built upon your knowledge, application, and/or analysis skills, to help solve this dilemma. The current plan is viewed as fair by the CEO and Leadership but several employees have complained it's not enough. The current employee status is as follows:1 CEO with a base salary of $150,000 and benefits that equal 40% of the salary3 additional executives (senior management) with a combined base salary of $300,000 and each receives benefits that equal 35% of the salary6 middle management personnel with a combined base salary of $420,000 and each receives benefits that equal 30% of the salary10 first-line supervisors with a combined base salary of $500,000 and each receives benefits that equal 25% of the salary150 non-supervisory employees with a combined base salary of $4,500,000 with an average individual salary of $30,000 and each receives benefits that equal 25% of the salaryFor this project assignment on Lollipop Company, Inc. complete a minimum 3-page business professional report selecting and organizing expert information that is useful for a CEO and addresses the following concepts:Visit the Rasmussen online Library and search for a minimum of 4 articles covering the topics of FMLA and workplace safety. Conduct academic research using the library's databases, like:DiscoveryASP: Human Resource Management OnlineBusiness Source Complete via EBSCOBusiness via ProQuestHow would market research provide information about compensation and benefits when designing a compensation and benefits plan? How should the CEO use this market research for the company's plan?How does the company achieve a balance between financial and non-financial compensation and benefits?What type(s) of primary and secondary research would you recommend be conducted? What are the benefits? Explain.Remember to integrate citations accurately and appropriately for all resource types; use attribution (credit) as a method to avoid plagiarism. Use NoodleTools to document your sources and to complete your APA formatted reference page and in-text citations.