Application Salary Case at Astra Zeneca

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Purpose of Assignment

The purpose of this assignment is to give learners’ experience in conducting a human resource management case study in a fair and equitable manner. Please refer to the resources below to assist with the assignment.

Assignment Steps

Resource: Human Resource Management: Ch. 11; Supplemental Resources.

Review the “Application Case Salary Inequities at Astra Zeneca” (page 379 of Human Resource Management).

Develop a 1,050-word report including:

  • Discuss questions 11-13, 11-14, and 11-15.
  • Summarize the answers to each of the questions.
  • Analyze current job market compensation plans and pay scales in comparison to Astra Zeneca.
  • Explain how team members will use lessons learned.

Format your assignment consistent with APA guidelines.

Here is the Application Case

Application Case Salary Inequities at AstraZeneca More than 50 years after passage of the Equal Pay Act, women in America still earn about 80 cents for every dollar earned by a man. That adds up to a loss for the average female worker of about $380,000 over a lifetime. Recently, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) entered into an agreement with AstraZeneca, a large international pharmaceuticals firm, for the company to pay some of its female sales associates a total of $250,000. 137 AstraZeneca had a contract valued at over $2 billion with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to provide drugs to hospitals around the country. That made it subject to Executive Order 11246, which aims to ensure that employees of U.S. contractors and subcontractors with federal contracts pay their employees fairly without regard to sex, race, color, religion, and national origin. After conducting a compliance review, the OFCCP concluded that AstraZeneca violated Executive Order 11246 by failing to ensure certain women employees were paid fairly. According to the OFCCP lawsuit, an AstraZeneca Business Center had routinely paid some of its female “primary care” and “specialty care” level III pharmaceutical sales specialists an average of $1,700 less than men with the same positions. Because of the company’s pay secrecy policies, many of the women didn’t know they were being paid less. In addition to the financial settlement, AstraZeneca and OFCCP will review records of the firm’s female employees in 14 states. If they find additional statistical evidence of wage discrimination, the company must remedy it.

Questions AstraZeneca has brought you in as a compensation consultant. Here are the questions they would like you to answer for them:

11-13. Although the case with OFCCP is closed, we wonder if there are any less discriminatory explanations possible for why our women sales reps on average earned less than men. If so, what are they?

11-14. Our own company now uses a point method to evaluate jobs for pay purposes, and each resulting job class also has a rate range associated with it. Sales associates are now paid a salary that is not based on incentive pay. List three specific things we can do to ensure that a similar problem (inequitable pay based on gender) does not arise again, assuming they continue using the point plan.

11-15. What sort of compensation plan would you recommend for us, and why?

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