HR Exercise: Recommending an Employee Benefits Plan

Keywords: employee benefits exercise, experiential learning, human resources

Abstract: Compensation is an important topic in Human Resource Management courses. Employee benefits have become an increasingly visible and desirable component of total compensation. In this session we share an exercise that helps students better understand the various types of mandatory and discretionary benefits and helps them to get a more realistic view of the benefits they may reasonably expect a prospective employer to offer. Join us for this fun, interactive session as we explore an exercise to help “bridge the knowledge-doing gap” for our students to gain insight and appreciation into benefit plans from the employer and employee perspective.