As a team, schedule a 15‐minute interview with a compensation specialist in the human resources department of your employer, college, university, hospital, or other organization to ask the following questions. Summarize your results in a one‐ to two‐page report for your team to present to your class in a five‐minute presentation. You may also want to develop a comparison chart based on your team’s results.

a. Could you share a brief job description of a compensation specialist? 

b. Do you participate in wage surveys? Can you provide results of a recent survey or samples of types of questions asked? 

c. What factors do you consider in developing compensation surveys? 

d. What types of plans, if any, does your organization use to provide incentive to employees? How is each plan implemented, and how successful has it been?