The Archer Company, LLC

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=90 BGCOLOR="#006699" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="02c285a1erlcgo.gif"> <div> <B>The Archer Company, LLC</B></div> <div> <A HREF="id29.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="ABOUT US"><U>ABOUT US</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id26.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="PRESIDENT AND CEO"><U>PRESIDENT AND CEO</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id21.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="PRODUCTS AND SERVICES"><U>PRODUCTS AND SERVICES</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id32.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="REFERENCES"><U>REFERENCES</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id31.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="CONTACT US"><U>CONTACT US</U></A></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=210 BGCOLOR="#FFCC66" TEXT="#080000" background="02ad2c00dkelyh.gif"> <div> <B><IMG SRC="04532320.gif" border=0 width="50" height="50" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="06792920.jpg" border=0 width="146" height="146" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <bR> <div> <B> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="1" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="301" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="VOID" RULES="NONE" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=CENTER HEIGHT= 957 WIDTH="297"><div> <B>Rock Hill /Charlotte Office </B></div> <div> <B>454 South Anderson Road </B></div> <div> <B>BTC 556</B></div> <div> <B>Rock Hill, SC 29730</B></div> <div> <B>e-mail: archere@RHTC.net</B><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#FF0000" FACE="Arial" ><B> </B></FONT><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FF0000" FACE="Arial" ><B>_____________________</B></FONT></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="1" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="626" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="VOID" RULES="NONE" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=CENTER HEIGHT= 100 WIDTH="622"><div> <B>ADVANCED HUMAN </B></div> <div> <B>RESOURCE </B></div> <div> <B>MANAGEMENT </B></div> <div> <B>SYSTEMS AVAILABLE</B></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=CENTER HEIGHT= 16 WIDTH="622"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="16" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="622" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> </tR> </TABLE></B></div> <bR> <div> <B> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="1" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="501" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="VOID" RULES="NONE" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=CENTER HEIGHT= 73 WIDTH="497"><div> <B>STATE OF THE ART, </B></div> <div> <B>AWARD WINNING </B></div> <div> <B>SYSTEMS</B></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=CENTER HEIGHT= 16 WIDTH="497"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="16" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="497" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> </tR> </TABLE></B></div> <bR> <div> <B> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="1" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="626" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="VOID" RULES="NONE" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=CENTER HEIGHT= 127 WIDTH="622"><div> <B>SOLD TO </B></div> <div> <B>PROGRESSIVE </B></div> <div> <B>ORGANIZATIONS </B></div> <div> <B>THROUGHOUT </B></div> <div> <B>THE UNITED STATES</B></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=CENTER HEIGHT= 16 WIDTH="622"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="16" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="622" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> </tR> </TABLE></B></div> <bR> <div> <B> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="1" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="626" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="VOID" RULES="NONE" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=CENTER HEIGHT= 100 WIDTH="622"><div> <B>ENTHUSIASTIC</B></div> <div> <B>ACCEPTANCE BY </B></div> <div> <B>MANAGEMENT AND </B></div> <div> <B>EMPLOYEES ALIKE</B></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=CENTER HEIGHT= 16 WIDTH="622"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="16" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="622" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> </tR> </TABLE></B></div> <bR> <div> <B> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="1" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="626" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="VOID" RULES="NONE" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=CENTER HEIGHT= 127 WIDTH="622"><div> <B>HUNDREDS OF</B></div> <div> <B>SATISFIED CLIENTS </B></div> <div> <B>WHO REGULARLY </B></div> <div> <B>PROVIDE ADDITIONAL</B></div> <div> <B> ENGAGEMENTS </B></div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></B></div> <bR> <bR> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=CENTER HEIGHT= 48 WIDTH="297"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="48" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="297" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> </tR> </TABLE></B></div> <div> <B> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="1" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="77" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="VOID" RULES="NONE" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=CENTER HEIGHT= 16 WIDTH="73"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="16" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="73" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=CENTER HEIGHT= 16 WIDTH="73"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="16" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="73" HSPACE="0" 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WIDTH="267"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="16" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="267" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> </tR> </TABLE></B></div> <bR> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" height=390 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <I><B>HOME</B></I></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <IMG SRC="068f6650.gif" border=0 width="246" height="101" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="069faa50.jpg" border=0 width="250" height="165" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>TAKING THE LEAD</B></I><FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#FF0000" FACE="Arial" ><I><B> </B></I></FONT></div> <bR> <div> <B>T</B><FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >he Archer Company specializes in meeting the needs of clients who wish to replace their emergent, traditional, trendy, and redundant personnel systems with human resource management systems that are capable of meeting the requirements of fairness, equity, nondiscrimination, validity and reliability as required by progressive management principles, federal statutes, and governmental regulations. </FONT></div> <bR> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#BF0000" FACE="Arial" ><B>T</B></FONT>he<B> </B>company caters to forward thinking clients who are seeking advanced human resource management systems that will allow them to meet the challenge of a management philosophy that is dedicated to customer service, quality assurance, employee enrichment, employee empowerment, process improvement, technological advancement, responsible expectation and efficient and profitable output.</div> <bR> <div> <B>T</B><FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >he Archer Company provides affordably priced, award-winning human resource management systems including award-winning quality of work life surveys, state-of the-art compensation and pay classification plans, customized performance appraisal plans, and other advanced offerings tailored to conform directly to the needs of our clients.</FONT><FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#FF0000" FACE="Arial" > </FONT></div> <bR> <div> <B>T</B><FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >he widespread acceptance of Dr. Archer's systems has made them a major force with regard to enhancing the fairness of compensation, promoting effective employee relations, increasing productivity, and improving the quality of work life for employees at all levels within public and private sector organizations. </FONT></div> <bR> <div> <B>T</B><FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >he Archer Company's professional staff combines years of hands on experience in private and public sector organizations, both as practitioners and as consultants. Most of our consulting staff possess Masters degrees or above in their fields of specialization</FONT></div> <div>  validity and reliability as required by progressive management principles, federal statutes, and governmental regulations. </div> <bR> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#BF0000" FACE="Arial" ><B>T</B></FONT>he<B> </B>company caters to forward thinking clients who are seeking advanced human resource management systems that will allow them to meet the challenge of a management philosophy that is dedicated to customer service, quality assurance, employee enrichment, employee empowerment, process improvement, technological advancement, responsible expectation and efficient and profitable output.</div> <bR> <div> <B>T</B><FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >he Archer Company provides affordably priced, award-winning human resource management systems including award-winning quality of work life surveys, state-of the-art compensation and pay classification plans, customized performance appraisal plans, and other advanced offerings tailored to conform directly to the needs of our clients.</FONT><FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#FF0000" FACE="Arial" > </FONT></div> <bR> <div> <B>T</B><FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >he widespread acceptance of Dr. Archer's systems has made them a major force with regard to enhancing the fairness of compensation, promoting effective employee relations, increasing productivity, and improving the quality of work life for employees at all levels within public and private sector organizations. </FONT></div> <bR> <div> <B>T</B><FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >he Archer Company's professional staff combines years of hands on experience in private and public sector organizations, both as practitioners and as consultants. Most of our consulting staff possess Masters degrees or above in their fields of specialization</FONT></div> <div> <B>__________________________</B></div> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <I><B>TESTS TO SEE IF YOUR ORGANIZATION MIGHT BE A CANDIDATE FOR OUR SERVICES</B></I></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>THE ARCHER FACTOR ANALYSIS </B></div> <div> <B>COMPENSATION SYSTEM</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Listed below is a set of questions about your compensation system. If you answer more than one of the questions with a "yes" then you might be in need of our compensation services.</B></div> <bR> <div> 1<FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >. Do the pay ranges in your current pay structure progress from one pay grade to the next by a percentage difference rather than a constant dollar difference? </FONT></div> <bR> <div> 2.<FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" > Do you have separate base pay structures in your organization, e.g., one for clerical, one for technical, one for operatives, one for management, one for executives, one for each job family, etc.?</FONT></div> <bR> <div> 3.<FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" > Is the percentage difference between the minimum and the maximum of each of the pay ranges in your pay structure greater at the higher grade levels than at the lower grade levels?</FONT></div> <bR> <div> 4.<FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" > Do you still give pay increases on employee anniversary dates?</FONT></div> <bR> <div> 5.<FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" > Do you have a pay increase distribution (pay raise) methodology that is internally fabricated rather than being based upon sound statistical rationale?</FONT></div> <bR> <div> 6<FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#00BF00" FACE="Arial" >.</FONT><FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" > Do you regularly run over or under the amount budgeted for pay increase distributions?</FONT></div> <bR> <div> 7.<FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" > Do you give pay increases as a percentage of current salary rather than as a percentage of the going or competitive market rate for the job?</FONT></div> <bR> <div> 8.<FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" > Do you only use market data for establishing the pay ranges for your pay structure rather than using both market data and formal job evaluation?</FONT></div> <bR> <div> 9.<FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" > Do you use a job evaluation system that you are not sure as to whether or not it is statistically valid and reliable?</FONT></div> <bR> <div> 10<FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >. Have you ever had a ruling against you for pay discrimination?</FONT></div> <div> <B>__________________________</B></div> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>THE ARCHER EMPLOYEE </B></div> <div> <B> SATISFACTION (QWL) SURVEY</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Listed below is a set of questions about the measurement of job satisfaction among your employees. If you answer more than one of the questions with a "yes" then you might be in need of our quality of work life survey. </B></div> <bR> <div> 1.<FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" > If you conduct quality of work life surveys (morale, attitude, job satisfaction, climate, etc.) do you conduct them internally rather than using an outside consultant to conduct them?</FONT></div> <bR> <div> 2.<FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#00BF00" FACE="Arial" > </FONT><FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >Have any of your employees ever been identified with respect to their responses to a QWL survey?</FONT></div> <bR> <div> 3.<FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" > Do you get less than 95% return from the employees selected to participate in the survey conducted by you or your consultant?</FONT></div> <bR> <div> 4.<FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" > Has the QWL survey instrument distributed to your employees been tested and determined to be valid and reliable?</FONT></div> <bR> <div> 5.<FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" > Are the questions on your QWL survey questionnaire selected without formally and specifically addressing every one of the 39 human needs that tend to motivate human behavior in the work environment?</FONT></div> <bR> <div> 6.<FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" > Does every job related factor for which information is sought on your QWL survey instrument ask only about how satisfied or dissatisfied the employee is with the factor, rather than also asking about how important the factor is to the employee, and about the probability that management will do something about improving the factor? </FONT></div> <bR> <div> 7. <FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >Do you or your consultant prioritize the factors that require the greatest attention based only on those with the highest levels of dissatisfaction rather than employing a formula that addresses all three of the questions asked about in item 5 above, i.e. satisfaction, importance, and remedial expectation?</FONT></div> <bR> <div> 8.<FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" > Are a significant number of your employees fearful that they might be identified by their written responses to the QWL survey?</FONT></div> <bR> <div> 9.<FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" > Do your survey results emphasize how many employees are satisfied or dissatisfied with a work-related factor rather than how intense the degree of dissatisfaction is felt toward the factor by all employees within a department, division, group or total organ-ization?</FONT></div> <bR> <div> 10.<FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" > Are comparisons made between your averages and that of averages from other organizations rather than against a statistically determined standard that forecasts the propensity and direction of employee behavior?</FONT></div> <div> <B>_________________________</B></div> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <IMG SRC="068f6650.gif" border=0 width="246" height="101" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> <B>           </B><A HREF="index_m.htm" TITLE="The Archer Company, LLC"><U><B>Back to Top</B></U></A></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>                   </B></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>