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Understand the importance of compensation systems to attract, retain, and motivate employees. Learn about principles, industry and job characteristics, employee behavior, and potential problems. Explore models like performance-based compensation and fringe benefits. Discover how to design and benchmark a competitive compensation package.
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Compensation • Nothing but the REMUNERATION package offered by the organization to attract the talented person for different position, such as • For Dy.managers • For Manager • For Executive officer • For lower level officer
For an organization to attract and retain talent, it is of utmost importance that it is able to provide an attractive compensation package. • Along with the brand value of the organization, for attracting top talent, a well designed compensation package plays a crucial role
Compensation system • It is the backbone of HRM • It hold the real power to - attract - retain and - motivate Employees to give outstanding performance • The system may differ from company’s to company
Principles of compensation system • According to Steven Applebaum of Concordia University, the following principles play’s vital role in determining the better compensation for better employee
market conditions • If the market is good the companies are ready to pay more
Employee Characteristics • Based on the - education - seniority - qualifications - experience The employee must give preference for good compensation
Industry Characteristics • Based on the status or standard of the company the wages may vary considerably. • Ex- Software companies pay good packages when compare with manufacturing wage package
Job Characteristics • Here the packages may vary according to - mental requirements - physical requirement - skill requirement - level of public contact - the effort required to carry out the work
Employee behavior characteristics • Here, the packages may vary based on - performance - absenteeism - turnover
Problems • Compensation is a critical issue for organisational effectiveness. • Dissatisfaction in compensation system can cause number of HR related problems. - poor employee performance - regular absenteeism - low employee turn over - poor employee involvement
problems • Unless compensation system is effective, the other interventions such as - development - empowerment - communication - career planning Will not produce any positive results for the organisation.
Models of Compensation • From the above information it could be clearly understand that compensation package is ultimately plays very significant role for the organizational effectiveness as well as the employee effectiveness. • It is the ultimate task of the HR to design the perfect compensation package for tackling the competitors.
Models of Compensation • There are two important models of compensation 1. performance based compensation 2. fringe benefits 3. Gain Sharing 4. ESOP
performance based compensation • It involves rewarding employees as per their performance or results achieved.
fringe benefits • The fringe benefits have often been described as - welfare Expenses - other than wages - social charges
Gain Sharing • It is also known as - production incentives, - Profit Sharing - Team Incentives
ESOP • Employee stock ownership plan is a right granted to an employee to purchase a specified number of shares of stock of the company at a predetermined price during a specified period.
How does a company go about designing their compensation package?
Compensation Benchmarking • Compensation Benchmarking is a key element in designing a pay package.
Procedure • identify similar organization existing in your city. • check and compare with their salary structure with respect to specific grades and how the fitmentation part is done in their industry. • Generally other company HR cannot give this info. Some Top officials in your industry or HR Head needs to tackle this. • Survey for atleast 3 - 4 companies.
Procedure • Like this you need to do for the 'N' number of positions you need to compare with your salary standards. • If it is a deviation about 5 % you don’t have to worry about it. Anything above 10 % then a focus required on this. • While doing the Survey one has to prepare a set of questionnaire and this needs to be circulated to the other companies and do the analysis. • Also one has to focus on their attrition analysis and then only take a final call on this.