Chapter 11 dessler 12-ce_ppt_ch11

Chapter 11: Strategic Pay Plans

Strategic Pay Plans | 11-1

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Dessler, Chhinzer, Cole
Human Resources
Management in Canada
Canadian Twelfth Edition

Learning Outcomes

• EXPLAIN in detail each of the three
stages in establishing pay rates.
• DISCUSS competency-based pay.



• EXPLAIN the strategic importance of total
rewards.

Learning Outcomes

• DEFINE pay equity and EXPLAIN its
importance today.



• DESCRIBE the five basic elements of
compensation for managers.

Strategic Importance of
Total Rewards
• monetary (extrinsic)
• compensation: cash payments and benefits
• personal growth and interpersonal rewards

• total awards approach
• rewards are part of integrated whole
• aligns rewards with business strategies



• non-monetary (intrinsic)

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Employment Rewards


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Total Rewards


Five Components of Total Rewards
1. Compensation

2. Benefits
4. Performance and recognition

5. Development and career opportunities



3. Work-life programs

Basic Considerations in
Determining Pay Rates
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Employment/Labour Standards Act
Pay Equity Acts
Human Rights Acts
Canada/Quebec Pension Plan
other legislation (worker’s comp., EI)

• union influences
• compensation policies
• equity and its impact on pay rates


• legal considerations in compensation

Establishing Pay Rates

Stage 2: Conduct wage/salary survey

Stage 1: Job evaluation


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Stage 3: Combine job evaluation and salary
survey to determine pay

Stage 1: Job Evaluation

• Benchmark job
• critical to operations or commonly found in other
organizations

• Compensable factors
•

fundamental, compensable element of a job



A systematic comparison to determine
relative worth of jobs within a firm.

Job Evaluation Methods
• Classification/grading method
categorizes jobs into groups
grade/group description: outlines level of
compensable factors required by each job

• Point method
• identify compensable factors
• determine the degree to which each factor is present
in each job



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Grade/Group Description
Sample


Point Method Steps

Step 3: Assign points for each degree of
each sub-factor
Step 2: Determine factor weights and degrees
Step 1: Preliminary steps

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Step 4: Evaluate the jobs

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Sub-Factor Sample


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Point Method
Job Evaluation Plan Sample


Stage 2: Conduct a Wage/
Salary Survey
• aimed at determining prevailing wage rates

• avoid upward bias
• informal surveys good for easily recognized
jobs

• formal surveys are most comprehensive


• determine rates for benchmark jobs
• determine market rates for jobs
• collect data on benefits, recognition programs, etc.

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Earnings Data Sample


Stage 3: Combine Job Evaluation
and Salary Survey Information
• a graphic description of the relationship
between the value of the job and the
average wage paid for this job

Pay ranges
• a series of steps or levels within a pay
grade, usually based on years of service


Wage curve

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Wage Curve


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Pay Ranges Sample


Reducing the number of salary grades and
ranges into just a few wide levels or
“bands”, each of which then contains a
relatively wide range of jobs and salary
levels.
advantage
• greater flexibility in employee
compensation


Broadbanding

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Broadbanding


Pay for Knowledge
• competency-based pay
(managers, professionals)

• pay-for-knowledge program should
include:
• competencies/skills directly important to job
performance
• new competencies that replace competencies that
are no longer important
• on-the-job training, not “in the classroom.”


• skill-based pay (manufacturing employees)

Compensating Executives
and Managers
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

Salary
Benefits
Short-term incentives
Long-term incentives
Perquisites



Five elements:

Compensating Professional
Employees
• engineers, scientists, accountants, lawyers
, etc.

• difficult to measure economic impact to
organization
• market pricing approach commonly used



• compensable factors not easily measured:
creativity, problem solving

Pay Equity
• wage gap has narrowed but remains at 30%

• aim is to provide equal pay to male and
female-dominated job classes of equal value

• must ensure no gender bias in job evaluation
• long-term solution is to eliminate male and
female- dominated jobs



• gap attributed to systemic discrimination

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Male-Female Wage Gap


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