Human Resources & Business Strategies

 Week 4 Assignment 1 - Learning Activity: Creating a Severance Package

Completing this activity will help you prepare for the upcoming assignment in Week 7. Consider this a practice assignment and focus on content, not formatting. Your paper should be no more than two pages in length.

For this activity:

· Create a severance package for a separated employee in a fictitious company that includes position differences, years of service, actual compensation amounts, and any additional benefits.

· Explain whether severance pay is taxable and why or why not.

· Create a chart depicting a fair and equitable timeline for disbursement of the compensation.

· Use Microsoft Word or an equivalent application, such as OpenOffice.

· Cite one or more credible, relevant, and appropriate sources that support creation of a severance package.

· Consider beginning with your course textbook and sources that can be found in the Strayer Library .

· For help with research, writing, and citation, access the library or review library guides .

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