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Real excitement of Compensation
• How do you create Performance base pay system that works. Companies extoll their Performance based pay system, yet none seems to be universally strong.
Skill based pay• Determine compensable competencies
for type of work. Tie to strategic issues.
• Provide training opportunities to get increased competencies!
• Offer competency tests either selection or post selection. Floor performance standards.
Strategic issues• Relative importance of base pay
vs performance pay.• Company emphasizing innovation,
customer service, teams, internal labor markets etc.
• Controversial• Intrinsic vs extrinsic motivation• Does extrinsic motivation always
prevail?• If so, then must people be paid to do
everything? When do they sacrifice self-interest for organizational interest?
Pay is but one tool for performance management
• Strategic HR relies on Performance management--which tools used. How to create an organizational culture related to performance management.
• Do you wish to pay for performance?• What are problems/advantages?
Medical Care• McFarland Clinic• Medical care is hot because of culture
change.• Doctors, lab, x-ray, receptionists.• Pay for performance or other
motivators?• What type of climate are you building.
What type of culture is • Most likely to link pay and
performance.• Least likely to link pay and
performance (rely on other motivators).
How Incentives for teams?
• P-G fit • PO fit• Brainstorm in teams• Consider types of incentives,
group, organizational individual.
ISSUE• Folly of Hoping for A but no
extrinsic rewards.• Folly of Hoping for A but rewarding
for B. • Outcome measures.
Summary• What is pay used for?• What influences the relative use in
different organizations.• If primarily motivation--how can it
be used to recruit and retain or visa-versa.
Goal• Current trends towards flexibility• Cost Issues (cost containment and
cost benefit).• Benefits management
Employers• Quality of life and the impact on
productivity (spillover of work and family).
• Recruitment• Retention
Trends towards Flexibility in electing benefits
• Cafeteria benefits. $ allocation may elect variety of benefits given costs. ISU offers health, disability, accidental death, life, dental.
• What do you need. Either pay for more coverage or elect. Not really cost management issue--just help retention and recruitment.
Trends towards Increasing coverage
• Prepaid legal• adoption benefits• Hopefully more in benchmarking
Cost issues• Do Benefits pay for themselves?
Costs/benefits ratio. How do you determine?
• Increasing trend towards results• Getting into the rankings
Pay for themselves• • Why do companies offer
preventative medicine-- smoke enders, weight watchers, free shots
• What about Wellness programs• Should Ford Keep up Volvo’s
benefits?
Family Benefits• Chubb estimates from exit interviews
that 50 employees left for childcare reasons
• It cost 97% of wages to replace non-exempt and 150% of wages to replace exempt.
• $3 million dollars in replacement costs
In spite of popularity• Few firms offer• People strongly value Security
benefits.• New benefits excluding child care
are modest cost.
Problems with Benefits• Employee backlash especially family
benefits.• Not clear that benefits have much
impact on recruitment unless clearly one of the 100 best places to work or equivalent in a region. Some evidence for retention. Would the money best be put elsewhere?
Linking Benefits to Strategy/Labor Markets• Retailer relies on students for
seasonal sales. Evidence is clear that sales is more than double if return. How to increase retention through benefits.
• Vacation days could be example for retention of employees.
Benefits Management• Benefits communication• Have it and want people to take
advantage of them. ISU has problems with wellness.
• How to communicate? Just in time.