Break the class into groups of three to five. You are on a team of human resource professionals for a new boutique car dealership that specializes in luxury vehicles. You have been tasked with designing an organizational development and compensation plan for the team of automotive sales consultants who have just been hired. Using what you know about the car sales consultant job (and O*NET, if available, for retail salespersons: https://www .onetonline.org/link/summary/41-2031.00), complete the following and answer each question as a group. Assume that the budget is moderate in size: not too lavish, not too meager.

Questions 

1. As a group, consider each of the five job characteristics (skill variety, task identity, task significance, autonomy, and feedback). Then write down the amount of each you think the automotive sales consultant position has. To address each element of the five job characteristics (by improving the low elements or maintaining the high elements), develop a plan for how each characteristic can be improved or maintained. 

2. Next, how important do you think employee involvement and participation will be in these positions? Develop a plan for how you will reasonably plan to include involvement or participation in designing these positions. Conversely, justify your reasoning for not having such a plan. 

3. Think about what might be important (and reasonable) in terms of compensation for the automotive sales consultants. What types of rewards would you provide to the consultants? What type of plan would you select? What type of specific benefits packages would you make available?