4. What cuts would you make? Would you replace some perks with less-expensive perks? Would you restructure the perks system to link some to performance? Come up with a new (hypothetical)

perks package for your employees. Explain your decisions.Making decisions is part of every manager’s job. To give you practice at managerial decision making, each chapter contains a “Management Decision” assignment focused on a particular decision. You’ll need to decide what to do in the given situation and then answer several questions to explain your choices.

Managing Company Perks You’re in charge of a great company, and you love going to work every day.91 Why wouldn’t you? Your employees get to do work they enjoy because you give them freedom to be creative and let them use whatever software and tools work best for them to be productive.

Best of all, though, is being the person who gives out the perks. Your employees are happy overall because they can use fl extime and the company daycare, and the insurance and retirement benefi ts are excellent—onsite access to basic health care doesn’t hurt, either. What’s more, they can get a healthy lunch for free in the company cafeteria or a massage when they’re stressed out, and you’ve made a company-owned four-bedroom beach house available to employees to use on vacations.

When things were going really well, you got to hand each employee $1,000 in cold hard cash, as a bonus.