PRIMARY RESPONSE TO INSTRUCTOR<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n I believe the Aetna’s wage increase was a smart move, it encourages and satisfies current employees and possible even boost productivity. However, wage increase may not always be a good thing.<\/p>\n I do believe that with wage increase will improve or increase morale and or productivity in a company. If a company increases its pay, that is usually a sign that the company is doing better and making money which in turn means they can use it to pay workers more or spend it on other resources. <\/p>\n The problem with wage increases is when it becomes mandatory for businesses to raise it. This is usually due to a law coming from a county, state, federal, etc to raise minimum wage. At this point it is generally good for CURRENT <\/strong>workers but not NEW<\/strong>workers. Current workers will have more money in their pockets and work harder. The problem is when it comes to new workers or other outside factors. For instance struggling companies or small business are going to be unwilling to hire new workers. Some may move depending on the increase, for them why pay an employee $11.00 an hour in California when they can move to North Carolina and pay employees $7.25 an hour. It also might scare future businesses from forming or settling in said areas. Another possible cause is that inflation might happen. Stores can see this increase and see it as charging more for their product or services. <\/p>\n I have not really experienced wage increase as it was more of a pay raise. On top of that starting pay can be anywhere between $15.00 to &25.00, maxing out at $45.00 an hour. This is well above California’s $11.00 so a wage increase will be highly unlikely for a long time. <\/p>\n Lastly, there is nothing wrong with laws concerning minimum wage or wage in general. They are there so that employees can’t be paid ridiculous low amounts of money. Increasing it will generally be for the better. There are just many factors that need to be taken into account as this can effects economy, living standards, economic circulation, inflation, etc.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In this chapter, you will learn about employee behavior and motivation. After you have read Chapter 8, please use the topic below as a starting point for class discussions, but please feel free to generate and initiate your own topics, including any questions or comment you may have for the concepts and content of this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_joinchat":[]},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qualityassignments.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272821"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qualityassignments.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qualityassignments.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qualityassignments.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qualityassignments.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qualityassignments.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272821\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qualityassignments.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qualityassignments.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qualityassignments.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}