Human Resource Management Session 7 DIRECT FINANCIAL COMPENSATION... Primary Determinants of Direct Financial Compensation Organization Compensation Policies Organizational Level Abili
Trang 1Human Resource Management
Session 7 DIRECT FINANCIAL COMPENSATION
Trang 2Primary Determinants of Direct Financial
Compensation
Organization
Compensation Policies Organizational Level Ability to Pay
Labor Market
Compensation Surveys
Expediency
Cost of Living
Labor Unions
Economy
Legislation
Employee
Job Performance
Skills
Competencies
Seniority
Experience
Organization Membership Potential
Political Influence
Luck Job Pricing Direct Financial Compensation Job Job Analysis Job
Descriptions Job Evaluation
Trang 4Compensation Policies
• Pay leaders - Pay higher wages and salaries
• Market rate, or going rate - Pay what most
employers pay for same job
• Pay followers - Pay below market rate because poor financial condition or believe do not
require highly capable employees
Trang 5Ability to Pay
Organization’s assessment of ability
to pay is important factor in determining pay levels
Trang 6Compensation Surveys
• What are other firms paying?
• Geographic area of survey
• Specific firms to contact
• Jobs to include
Trang 7Cost of Living
• When prices rise over a period of time and pay does not,
real pay is actually lowered
• Some firms index pay increases to inflation rate
Trang 8The Economy
• Affects financial compensation
decisions
• Depressed economy generally increases labor supply
• Cost of living often rises as economy expands
Trang 9Job Analysis and Job Descriptions
• Before organization can determine
relative difficulty or value of jobs, must first define content
• Done by job analysis/job descriptions
Trang 11Factor Comparison Method
• Five universal job factors - Mental requirements, skills, physical requirements,
responsibilities, and working conditions
• Raters need not keep entire job in mind as they evaluate; instead, they make decisions on separate aspects or factors of job
Trang 12Procedure for Establishing Point
Method of Job Evaluation
Select Job Cluster
Identify Compensable Factors
Determine Degrees and Define Each
Trang 13Job Evaluation Worksheet
Trang 14Job Evaluation Worksheet for Administrative 2 Position
Trang 15The Hay Guide Chart-Profile Method
• Refined version of the point method
Trang 16Job Pricing
• Placing dollar value on worth of job
• Pay grades - Grouping of similar jobs to
simplify pricing jobs
• Wage curve - Fitting of plotted points to create smooth progression between pay grades
• Pay ranges - Minimum and maximum pay rate with enough variance between to allow for
significant pay difference
Trang 17Job Pricing (Cont.)
• Broadbanding - Collapses many pay grades
into few wide bands to improve effectiveness
• Single rate system - Pay ranges not appropriate for some workplace conditions such as some assembly lines
• Adjusting pay rates - Overpaid and underpaid jobs
Trang 18Scatter Diagram of Evaluated Jobs Illustrating Wage Curve, Pay
Grades, and Pay Ranges
Pay Ranges for Pay
Grades
0- 99 1 $12.00 $13.30 $14.60 100-199 2 13.30 14.60 15.90 200-299 3 14.60 15.90 17.20 Evaluated Points Pay Grade Minimum Midpoint Maximum
Summary
Trang 19Broadbanding and Its Relationship to Traditional Pay
Grades and Ranges
Trang 20Employee as Determinant of Direct
Trang 21Performance-Based Pay
level of performance as indicated in appraisal
performance One-time financial award based on
productivity
outstanding work or effort
Trang 22Skill-Based Pay
Compensates on basis of job-related skills and knowledge
• Employees and departments benefit when
employees obtain additional skills
• Appropriate where work tends to be routine and less varied
• Must provide adequate training opportunities
or system becomes demotivator
Trang 23• Length of time employee has been associated with company, division, department, or job
• Labor unions tend to favor
seniority
Trang 24• Regardless of nature of job, very few
factors have a more significant impact
on performance than experience
• Dot-com world has changed attitude
with regard to experience
Trang 25Team-Based Pay
If team is to function effectively, firms
should provide reward based on overall team
performance
Trang 26Company-Wide Pay
• Profit sharing - Distribution of predetermined percentage of firm’s profits to employees
• Gainsharing - Bind employees to firm’s
productivity and provide incentive payment
based on improved company performance
• Scanlon plan - Reward to employees for
savings in labor costs resulting from
employees’ suggestions
Trang 27Professionals Compensation
• Initially compensated for knowledge they bring to organization
• Maturity curves reflect relationship between professional compensation and years of experience
Trang 28Sales Representative Compensation
• Straight salary
• Straight commission
• Endless variety of
salary, commission
part-combinations
Trang 29Executive Compensation
Critical factor in attracting and
retaining best managers
Trang 30Determining Executive Compensation
Firms typically prefer to relate salary growth for the highest-level
managers to overall corporate performance
Trang 31Types of Executive Compensation
• Base salary
• Short-Term Incentives or Bonuses
• Stock option plans
• Performance-Based Pay
• Executive benefits (Perks)
• Golden parachutes
Trang 32Short-Term Incentives or Bonuses
• Payment of bonuses reflects a managerial belief in their incentive value
• 90% of executives receive bonuses
Trang 33Performance-Based Pay
• Trend toward more performance-based
compensation packages for executives
• Shareholders become increasingly disenchanted with high levels of executive compensation -
performance-based pay may gain in popularity
Trang 34Golden Parachutes
• Perquisite that protects
executives in event another company acquires firm or executive is forced to leave firm for other reasons
• Attempts to rein in obscene
golden parachute plans
Trang 35Trends & Innovations: Outrageous Severance
Pay Examples?
• Philip Purcell, Morgan Stanley, $113 million
• Stephen Crawford, Morgan Stanley, $32 million
• Harry Stonecipher, Boeing $600,000/year
• Carly Fiorina, Hewlett-Packard, $21 million
• Franklin Raines, Fannie Mae, $1.4 million/year
• Scott Livengood, Krispy Kreme, $46,000/month
• James Kilts, Gillette, $100 million
• Jack Welch, GE corporate $9 million annual pension plan payout, plus perks such as lifetime use of GE’s $80,000-per-month Manhattan
apartment with free food and free maid service; lifetime use of GE fleet of corporate jets, including Boeing 737 jet; new Mercedes plus limousine and driver; and assorted free sports and opera box tickets
Trang 36A Global Perspective: Costs of
Expatriates
• Employers today know that
it is more expensive to send workers abroad
• Tokyo ranks as most expensive city for
expatriates, followed by
London, Moscow and Osaka, Japan