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Baristas suing Starbucks over its tipsharing policy say the fight for extra cash is not over after a
New York Court of Appeals ruling that is part of a legal battle that has dragged on through numerous courts in multiple states.
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Your Special Blend, Rewarding our partners
Defines all their rewards programs from stock to retirement. Starbucks prides itself on our partners. We offer partners working fulltime or parttime comprehensive benefits, including health coverage
(medical, dental and vision). Along with health coverage, your benefit options at Starbucks include life insurance, disability coverage, vacation, …show more content…
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Starbucks and Whole Foods, store managers bring home on average $44,632 and $75,775, respectively.
However, while store manager pay ranks high, according to NBER, WalMart cashiers earn about $8.48/hour and are paid less than their counterparts at the other chains. At Starbucks, "baristas" make $8.80 an hour, on average, while those at Whole Foods and Costco make $10.31 and $11.59. Cashiers at three out of four of the retailers make less than the average national hourly cashier rate of $11.22/hour.
The paper also shows a significant gender gap, even among cashiers. While high school educated women in retail make 25% less than their male counterparts, women cashiers make 17% less. Among those with some college education, women make 20% and 21% less than men when they have a high school education and some college, respectively. http://www.ukessays.com/essays/business/employeemotivationstarbuckscorporationbusin essessay.php Employee Motivation Starbucks …show more content…
Intrinsic motivation – Encourage team work and increase staff unity
This topic show how team work as a kind of motivation effective to Starbucks staff, whether it is helpful to partners to achieving a new level of performance.
Limitation of the study
Limitation for Secondary data: although it can provide large amounts of information quickly and cheaply, the unreliability cannot be ignored, there is no control over data quality.
Limitation for Primary data: this kind of research is accuracy and tailormade to research problem, but it is time wasted and normally cost a lot.
Review of the Literature
The motivation arises when some one ask why people behave in a certain way (McKenna,
2000). Motivation refers to something dynamic origins from inside (Jain, 2005). Cited in
Karthikeyan et al., (2008), Berelson and Steiner (1964. P. 14) observed, ”Motivation is refers to all those inner striving conditions which have been described as wishes, desires, drives, etc. It is an inner condition which actives or moves”. The definition of motivation is quite wide; scholars have given different definition based on their experiences. According to Michael