Problem: State Bank has over time increased salaries to tellers that were so high that of the 23 tellers at State Bank they were being paid over what other local tellers were being paid; additionally no other employees outside of the tellers were receiving an exceedingly higher salary based on the other local banks averages. All of this information was compiled in a report based on survey results taken from State Bank and the other local surrounding banks.
Analysis: Now that this information has been reviewed State Bank determined that salaries would need to be modified or moving forward the salary structure would need to be modified for the tellers, according to the competitive data and based on what the ladder in salary was for all
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While those amounts maybe still be rather high; cutting back that 2% in raises and those costs of living increases can close that $26,000 overage, and make room for other incentives that are granted on a smaller scale, perhaps a quarterly bonus for employees that don’t miss any unscheduled days off, or create teams within the bank that can challenge other teams in the bank for free items such as dinner & a movie, gift cards or other non-monetary incentives which could be sponsored by local businesses which could ultimately costs the bank nothing other than some publicity or employee awareness of those local businesses.
Conclusion: Overall Duncan has done a fantastic job bringing the bank to place that other local banks model themselves after, however during the road to this great domain he failed to look at the potential costs associated with raises over time and merit increases staying reasonable. While others were meeting some marks for their level of service the tellers were going to always have an advantage because they are the core of the bank because the customers interact with them more regularly, the customers get to know them, making it easier to be more productive and positive, hence giving them an incentive to do great work every day.
While the teller
The emergency rescue of the Royal Bank of Scotland in 2008 has cost the UK government thus the British taxpayer a huge amount of money. Many people are upset about the high bonuses the RBS management board have received, both because of the outrageously high amount and because the performance of the bank on the long-term was not good at all.
The setting for this ghost story was at Sturdivant Hall, in Selma, Alabama in the 1860’s.
My subject’s name is Catherine Douglass. She is a Senior at Lamar University and has been a cashier at Payless Shoe Stores for three years. She is a key holder at her store which means she is responsible for opening and closing the store as well as preparing daily bank deposits. The key holder is the Leader when the Store Leader or Assistant Store Leader is not available. There are five people in total working at her store. Everyone is responsible for customer service, breaking down and processing shipment, and maintenance of the store. Catherine rates her job at an overall
DECEMBER 14 PAYROLL (Use the payroll file you saved under filename 12-14 your name to answer the following questions for the November 6 payroll.)
In this table, it reflects the changes in fixed plant overhead from $420,000 to $378,000. The company still has the fixed selling and administrative expense per quarter of $118,000. The new company fixed overhead is now at $496,000 from the past $538,000 ($42,000) change from past to
3. For each of the individual overhead accounts at Bridgeton, do you believe the given cost is variable, fixed, or something else? Why? (Use information or evidence from the case to support your evaluation, if possible. For most of these costs, there is no single right answer from the case information, so the goal is to come up with a reasonable estimate.)
On September 8 2016, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFBP) announced that it was taking an enforcement action against Wells Fargo Bank . Wells Fargo is a Fortune 100 company and one of the "Big Four Banks" of the United States. Investigations conducted by the Bureau revealed that employees of the bank created unauthorized deposit and credit card accounts across the country to meet sales goals. Over the years, the bank’s employees opened over 1.5 million fraudulent bank accounts and 0.5 million fake credit card accounts for customers, to meet sales targets and obtain bonuses. The affected consumers, were being harmed by the associated charges and fees for these accounts. The fees include insufficient funds or overdraft fees for the deposit accounts and annual fees for credit card accounts.
The relationship between the teacher and the student can be associated with two different methods of learning. Paulo Freire suggests the “The ‘Banking’ Concept of Education”, in which the teacher “fills the account” of the student with information and knowledge they have (318). Freire also explains the concept of “problem posing” learning that contradicts the “banking” concept. This way helps the student become more involved with their education, and they are able to become a more well-rounded student. But Freire ignores to add any supporting detail to his points based on how a student feels about each method of education. Determining the best way of an education is all
Department |Employee |Salary PA |Daily pay rate |No of Sick Days 2012 |Cost of sick to business 2012 |No of Sick Days 2011 |Cost of Sick to the business 2011 | |Inbound |Agent 1 |15000 |57.69 |1 |57.69 |3 |173.07 | | |Agent 2 |15000 |57.69 |0 |0 |2 |115.38 | | |Agent 3 |15000 |57.69 |4 |230.76 |2 |115.38 | | |Agent 4 |15000 |57.69 |0 |0 |1 |57.69 | |
In addition to the above the internal incentive to bank should be reduced by requiring greater capital requirements as well as improving upon the definition of what qualifies to be capital. Further in line with the answer to question 3, risk management systems in financial institutions need to be redefined and strengthened to more comprehensively identify, evaluate, manage and monitor risks.
The math teacher was babbling on about how this specific formula worked and halfway through her example I noticed that she had made a mistake. I hesitated a hundred times before raising my hand. It felt almost wrong because usually no one spoke up unless they had to go to the bathroom or get a drink which we all know that was just an excuse so we didn’t have to hear the teacher talk about something we weren’t interested in at that moment. According to Freire, we were taught within the banking system of education to accept our ignorance as justifying the teacher’s existence (319). In other words, students were “trained” in a way to keep
A beneficiary who receives overpaid benefits is primarily liable for repaying the overpayment if he or she benefitted from the money. Primary liability can apply to both adult and child beneficiaries or recipients. SSA generally collects these overpayments by withholding or reducing benefits for current beneficiaries and recipients. If we appoint a payee, the payee is personally liable for repayment if the payee used the incorrect payments for purposes other than the support and maintenance of the recipient. Effective December 4, 2008, a payee who receives payments on the beneficiary’s behalf after the death of the beneficiary is solely liable for repayment of the overpayment.
Even though Bank of Ireland promised great business benefits, successful implementation of the new operational structure and system, it required a restructuring of the processes and roles used. There was a depletion of uniformity within the Financial Shared Service. When it came to solving issues and queries there was a lack of knowledge to the criteria. For example, invoices were not done to a professional standard. This ended in duplication of invoices and time wasted. They had to be redone which caused a slowdown in work and things did not get done in
Firstly, Karen Mitchell, who was the best choice based on the previous evaluation criteria, was challenging for selling skills and ranked the fourth with new criteria. Karen had excellent operational skills (Rank 1) with fast, accurate and professional performance. She had good relationship with fellow CSRs and customers. Three and half years teller experience was sufficient for promotion. She also showed that she wanted to take more responsibilities. However, on the downside, Karen’s selling performance was poor and showed resistance for bank’s new policies. Although the managers had talked to her to improve the selling skills, she still thought that CSRs and tellers were nearly the same position to provide fast and accurate operation, not selling. If Karen was promoted to the head CSR, the assignment and operational works would be performed well, but the selling performance might decline. The number of customers might be retained or even increased, but the profit might go down.
• Lack of Data: If anyone can gather primary data to the bank employee and personal observation, But this data is not proper for writing a report. Secondary data is only the annual report, library report and website information. But in the website information should updated that was not properly given.