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Chapter 9 Managing Compensation

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Learning Outcomes

Distinguish a strategic compensation program from one that is non-strategic

Determine how to design pay systems

Estimate whether or not a pay system is consistent within the firm as well as comparable to industry standards and government laws

Be able to design a compensation scorecard

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Compensation

Way to increase employee’s loyalty toward the organization

Directly linked to an employee’s livelihood

Strategic management ensures that costs are kept down keeping employees’ motivation and performance up

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Figure 9.1 – Compensation Components

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Figure 9.2 – Compensation Alignment

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Strategic Compensation

Compensation of employees in ways that enhance motivation and growth

Aligns employee’s efforts with the objectives of the organization

Links the compensation to the organization’s mission and general business objectives

Serves to mesh the monetary payments made to employees with HR initiatives

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Goals of Strategic Compensation Policy

To reward employees’ past performance

To remain competitive in the labor market

To maintain salary equity among employees

To mesh employees’ future performance with organizational goals

To control the compensation budget

To attract new employees

To reduce unnecessary turnover

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Linking Compensation to Organizational Objectives

Requires that managers be more strategic about their compensation decisions

Formalized compensation goals serve as guidelines for managers to ensure that wage and benefit policies achieve their intended purpose

Reward employees on the basis of their individual competencies or work contributions toward organizational objectives

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Pay-for-Performance Standard

Standard by which managers tie compensation to employee effort and performance

Refers to a wide range of compensation options

Includes merit-based pay, bonuses, salary commissions, job and pay banding, team/group incentives, and gainsharing programs

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Motivating Employees through Compensation

Pay equity: Employee’s perception that compensation received is equal to the value of the work performed

Distributive fairness – Motivation theory that explains how people respond to situations in which they feel they have received less/more than they deserve

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Figure 9.3 – Relationship between Pay Equity and Motivation

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Kinds of Pay Equity

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External equity

People in similar jobs compare themselves to what others are making in different organizations

Internal equity

People compare themselves to peers in different jobs in the same organization

Individual equity

People compare themselves to others in their organization with the same job

Expectancy Theory and Pay

Expectancy theory

Predicts that one’s level of motivation depends on the attractiveness of the rewards sought and the probability of obtaining those rewards

Employees must believe that good performance is valued by their employer and will result in their receiving the expected reward

Motivational value of compensation is determined by employees’ view of compensation

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Figure 9.4 – Pay-for-Performance and Expectancy Theory

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Pay Secrecy

Generates distrust in the compensation system

Reduces employee motivation

Inhibits organizational effectiveness

Cover up inequities existing within the internal pay structure

Justified on the grounds that most employees prefer to have their own pay kept secret

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Bases for Compensation

Hourly work: Work paid on an hourly basis

Piecework: Work paid according to the number of units produced

Hourly employees – Compensated on an hourly basis

Salaried employees – Compensation is computed on the basis of weekly, biweekly, or monthly pay periods

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Bases for Compensation

Nonexempt employees: Covered by the overtime provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)

Paid at a rate of one and a half times their regular pay rate for time worked in excess of forty hours in their workweek

Exempt employees: Not covered by the overtime provisions of the FLSA

U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) imposes a narrow definition of exempt status

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Figure 9.6 – Factors Affecting the Pay Mix

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Important Terms in Pay Mix

Consumer price index (CPI)

Measure of the average change in prices over time in a fixed market basket of goods and services

Escalator clauses

Labor agreements clauses that provide for quarterly cost-of-living adjustments in wages, basing the adjustments on changes in the CPI

Real wages

Wage increases larger than rises in the CPI, that is, the real earning power of wages

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Job Evaluation

Systematic process of determining the relative worth of jobs in order to establish which jobs should be paid more than others within an organization

Methods of comparison

Rank the value of jobs from highest to lowest

Classify jobs so they can be benchmarked internally and externally

Award points to each job based on how much they are linked to organizational objectives

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Job Ranking System

Simplest and oldest system of job evaluation by which jobs are arrayed on the basis of their relative worth

Disadvantages

Does not provide a very precise measure of each job’s worth

Final ranking of jobs indicates the relative importance of the job and not the differences in the degree of importance

Effective only with a small number of jobs

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Job Classification System

System of job evaluation in which jobs are classified and grouped according to a series of predetermined wage grades

Successive grades require increasing amounts of job responsibility, skill, knowledge, ability, or other factors selected to compare jobs

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Point System

Quantitative job evaluation procedure that determines the relative value of a job by the total points assigned to it

Compensable factors – Used for evaluation of jobs quantitatively

Point manual

Handbook that contains a description of the compensable factors and the degrees to which these factors may exist within the jobs

Used for comparing job descriptions and job specifications

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Work Valuation

Job evaluation system that seeks to measure a job’s worth through its value to the organization

Work is measured through standards that come directly from business goals

Process ends with a work hierarchy that is an array of work by value to the organization

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Hay Profile Method

Job evaluation technique to evaluate executive and managerial positions which uses

Knowledge

Mental activity

Accountability

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Wage and Salary Surveys

Survey of the wages paid to employees of other employers in the surveying organization’s relevant labor market

Labor market – Area from which employers obtain certain types of workers

Collecting survey data

Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) publishes wage and salary data

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Wage and Salary Surveys

States conduct surveys on either a municipal or county basis and make them available to employers

Special surveys are conducted by the trade groups

Problems with published surveys

Not always compatible with the user’s jobs

User cannot specify what specific data to collect

HRIS and salary surveys

Survey Finder has a database of hundreds of compensation surveys offered by more than fifty independent vendors

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Wage and Salary Surveys

Employer-initiated surveys

Employers have to select the jobs to be used in the survey and identify the organizations with whom they actually compete for employees

Using key jobs, survey data are tabulated and the compensation ­structure is completed

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Wage Curve, Pay Grades, and Rate Ranges

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Wage curve

Curve in a scattergram representing the relationship between relative worth of jobs and pay rates

Pay grades

Groups of jobs within a particular class that are paid the same rate

Rate ranges

Range of rates for each pay grade that may be the same for each grade or proportionately greater for each successive grade

Red circle rates: Payment rates above the maximum of the pay range

Figure 9.7 – Freehand Wage Curve

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Figure 9.8 – Single Rate Structure

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Figure 9.9 – Federal Wage Poster

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Competence-based Pay

Pay based on an employee’s skill level, variety of skills possessed, or increased job knowledge

Systems represent fundamental change in the attitude of management regarding:

How work should be organized

How employees should be paid for their work efforts

Encourages employees to acquire training when new or updated skills are needed by an organization

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Broadbanding

Collapses many traditional salary grades into a few wide salary bands

Help eliminate the obsession with grades

Encourage employees to move to jobs in which they can develop in their careers and add value to the organization

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Government Regulation of Compensation

Davis-Bacon Act of 1931

Walsh-Healy Act of 1936

Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938

Wage and hour provisions

Minimum wage and pay compression

Child labor provisions

Pay equity provisions

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Minimum Wage and Pay Compression

Pay rate compression: Compression of pay between new and experienced employees caused by the higher starting salaries of new employees

Differential between hourly workers and their managers

Reasons for pay compression are market based than government based

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Ideas for Minimizing Problems

Reward high performance and merit-worthy employees with large pay increases

Design the pay structure to allow a wide spread between hourly and supervisory employees

Prepare high-performing employees for promotions to jobs with higher salary levels

Provide equity adjustments for selected employees hardest hit by pay compression

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Child Labor Provisions and Pay Equity Provisions

Child labor provisions

Floor it imposes makes it difficult for high school students and young adults to find jobs

Pay equity provisions

The Equal Pay Act of 1963

Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964

Age Discrimination Act of 1967

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Compensation Assessment

Assessing the effectiveness of compensation system is important to linking compensation with strategy

Measures

Help the company detect potential compensation problems

Make compensation decisions more transparent

Improve the alignment of compensation decisions with organizational objectives

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Compensation Assessment

Compensation scorecard: Displays the results for all the measures that a company uses to monitor and compare compensation among internal departments or units

Creates a comparative tool within the organization that can reinforce desired outcomes that are unique to the company’s strategy

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Chapter 11 Employee Benefits

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Learning Outcomes

Detect strategies companies use to develop benefits plans that are cost effective

Identify and explain the employee benefits required by law

Describe the types of work/life benefits that employers may provide

Describe the different types of retirement programs and pension plans and the regulations related to them

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Elements of a Successful Benefits Program

Many forces are weighed and kept in balance for benefits programs to succeed

Needs of employees are considered as they can differ from firm to firm

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Selecting Benefits

When designing benefit programs, company can:

Purchase detailed compensation data

Hire outside firms to aid in the designing process

Involve emplo