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Part 6

Pay


What Constitutes Pay?

• Transaction

• Label

• Status symbol

• Determinant of standard of living

• Discriminator

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Importance of Pay

• Influence in employees’ lives

• Importance reflected in Trade Union interest in pay levels

• Legislation re minimum wage and pay bargain

Slide 26.2


Terminology

• Compensation

• Reward

• Remuneration

• Pay

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Reward Strategy

• Aligning an organisation’s payment arrangements with its business objectives

• Developing payment systems that enhance employees contribution to business goals

• Experimentation stage with many new approaches being considered

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Employee Objectives for Contract of Payment

• Purchasing power• Fair• Rights• Relativities• Recognition• Composition

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Conventional Wisdom over Pay Composition (1 of 2)

• Younger employers more interested in high direct earnings

• Incentive or performance related payment of interest to those who see an opportunity to control own personal activities

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Conventional Wisdom over Pay Composition (2 of 2)

• Women with children are less interested in payment arrangements that depend on overtime

• Overtime used by many to produce acceptable purchasing power

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Employer Objectives For Contract For Payment

• Prestige• Competition• Control• Motivation and performance• Cost• Change management

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Factors That Can Influence The Setting of Base Pay Rates

• National minimum wage

• Equal pay law

• Nature of product markets

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Base Pay Rates Approaches

• External labour market comparisons

• Internal labour market comparisons

• Job evaluation

• Collective bargaining

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External Market Comparisons

• Focus on external relativities

• Going rate

• Follow the market

• Sources of intelligence – IDS, IRS

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Elements of Payment (1 of 2)

Figure 26.1 The potential elements of payment

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Elements of Payment (2 of 2)

Figure 26.1 The potential elements of payment

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Importance of Equity

• Perceived inequity in payment matters can be dangerous to organisations

• An area influencing employee satisfaction is way that pay levels and increases are distributed fairly

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Principles In Pay Decisions

• Standard approach for determining pay across organisation

• As little subjective or arbitrary decision making • Maximum communication and employee

involvement • Clarity in pay determination matters

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Strategic Focus (1 of 2)

• More reward managers than salary administrators but what is change in practices

• New pay philosophy where decisions about payment levels and packages flow from overall strategy

• Pay policy increasingly underpins employer objectives

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Strategic Focus (2 of 2)

• Gaps in rhetoric and reality of strategic pay activity

• For most matter of incremental change being made

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Summary (1 of 2)

• Employees tend to be concerned with purchasing power, fairness & recognition of effort

• Employers are concerned with pay matters made by law, and realities of their markets

• Four alternative methods of setting basic pay rates

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Summary (2 of 2)

• There are seven elements of pay

• Procedural equity is essential to the design of successful payment systems

• There is disagreements about how UK managers embrace more strategic approaches to reward management

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