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The Pay Model
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Chapter
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1. Explain how perceptions of compensation differ among society, stockholders, managers and employees.
2. Discuss the difference between cash compensation (direct compensation) and benefits (indirect compensation) and define each of the direct and indirect forms of compensation.
3. Explain how the employment relationship combines both transactional and relational returns to form an implicit contract between employers and employees.
4. Explain the three main components of a pay model.5. Understand how the pay model integrates objectives,
policies, and techniques into a compensation system.6. Be able to distinguish empirical research from
surveys and opinions.
Learning ObjectivesAfter discussing Chapter 1, students
should be able to:
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Chapter Topics
Compensation: Definition, Please? Forms of Pay The Employment Relationship
Combines Transactional and Relational Returns
A Pay Model Book Plan Caveat Emptor - Be an Informed
Consumer
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Key Questions and Issues
How do differing perspectives affect our views of compensation?
What can a pay system do for an organization? For an employee?
How does the pay model help organize one’s thinking about compensation?
Under what circumstances would one of the four basic pay policies be emphasized relative to the others?
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Society’s Views
Stockholders’ Views
Employees’ Views
Managers’ Views
Contrasting Perspectives of Compensation
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1-6Exhibit 1.1: Hourly Compensation
Costs for Production Workers
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1-7Exhibit 1.2: Labor Costs as a Percentage of Revenues, Airline
Industry
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Compensation refers to all forms of financial returns and tangible services and benefits employees receive as
part of an employment relationship.
What Is Compensation?
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Exhibit 1.3: Total Returns for Work
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Direct Pay Forms
Cash Compensation: Base
Cash Compensation: Merit Pay / Cost-of-Living Adjustments
Cash Compensation: Incentives
Long-Term Incentives
Indirect Pay Forms
Benefits: Income Protection
Benefits: Work/Life Focus
Benefits: Allowances
Forms of Pay
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Relational Returns from Work
Recognition& Status
EmploymentSecurity
ChallengingWork
LearningOpportunities
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An unwritten understanding between employers and employees over their reciprocal obligations and returns; employees contribute toward achieving the goals of the employer in exchange for returns given by the employer and valued by the employee.
What Is an ImplicitEmployment Contract?
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1-13Exhibit 1.4: Framework for Analyzing Employment
Relationships
HIGH PAY – LOW COMMITMENT
Hired Guns (Stockbrokers)
HIGH PAY – HIGH COMMITMENT
Cult - like (Microsoft)
LOW PAY – LOW COMMITMENT
Workers as Commodity (Employers of Migrant
Farm Workers)
LOW PAY – HIGH COMMITMENT
Family (Starbucks)
Hig
hH
igh
Low
Low
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AN
SA
CTIO
NA
LTR
AN
SA
CTIO
NA
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LowLow HighHigh
RELATIONALRELATIONAL
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POLICIES TECHNIQUES OBJECTIVES
EFFICIENCY• Performance• Quality• Customers• Stockholders• Costs
FAIRNESS
COMPLIANCE
COMPETITIVENESSMarket Surveys Policy PAY definitions lines STRUCTURE
CONTRIBUTORS Seniority Performance Merit INCENTIVE based based guidelines PROGRAMS
MANAGEMENT Costs Communication Change EVALUATION
Exhibit 1.5: THE PAY MODEL
ALIGNMENTWork Descriptions Evaluation/analysis certification
INTERNALSTRUCTURE
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Compensation Objectives
Efficiency
Fairness
Compliance
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Medtronic Support objectives and increased
complexity of business Minimize increases in fixed costs Emphasize performance through
variable pay and stock Competitiveness aligned with
financial performance: 50th percentile performance paid at 50th percentile of market. 75th percentile performance paid at 75th of market.
AESOur guiding principles are to act with integrity, treat people fairly, have fun,
and be involved in projects that provide social benefits. This means we will
Help AES attract self-motivated, dependable people who want to keep learning new things
Hire people who really like the place and believe in the AES system
Pay what others are paid both inside and outside AES, but hire people who are willing to take less to join AES
Use teams of employees and managers to manage the compensation system
Make all employees stockholders
Exhibit 1.6: Pay Objectivesat Medtronic and AES
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Internal alignmentFocus - Comparisons among jobs or skill levels
inside a single organizationExternal competitiveness
Focus - Compensation relationships external to the organization: comparison with competitors
Employee contributionsFocus - Relation emphasis placed on employee
performanceManagement
Focus - Policies related to managing the pay system
Pay System Policies
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Include methods used to operationalize policy decisions and link decisions to overall compensation objectives
Examples of techniquesInternal consistency
Job analysisJob evaluation
External competitivenessPay surveys
Employee contributionsIncentive plansPerformance-based pay increases
Pay System Techniques
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Does the research measure anything useful?
Does the study separate correlation from causation?
Are there alternative explanations?
Caveat Emptor -Be An Informed Consumer