Determine whether base pay should be an important component of compensation for the sales staff. If so determine the most appropriate method of determining base pay for the sales staff. What factors did you consider in making these decisions? Ben Hanlon ORGS 3146 February 8‚ 2014 Base Pay as Compensation Base pay is the amount of money an employee is making prior to any sort of compensation or other benefits. Compensation methods such as bonuses‚ indirect pay‚ and performance pay
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Pay Structures / Salary Structures Introduction: Pay StructuresWhat are Pay Structures or Salary Structures? Pay structures‚ also known as salary structures‚ set out the different levels of pay for jobs‚ or groups of jobs‚ by reference to: their relative internal value‚ as established by job evaluation external relativities‚ via market rate surveys where appropriate‚ negotiated rates for the job What are the main characteristics of Pay Structures? indicate rates of pay for different
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Fair and Equitable Compensation MGMT 365 04/01/2012 MGMT 365 04/01/2012 Fair and Equitable Compensation Compensation is an important factor in the business world; both for employees and employers. Employees are trying to get what they feel they are worth. On the other side employers are trying to get quality workers at the best price they can; this is so they can increase their bottom line. Depending on which side you are on‚ the views of what is fair and equitable varies. The key is to
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Foundations of a Compensations Strategy Compensation Strategies are used by organizations to determine how rewards should be given out to employees. Since compensation is a good way to motivate employees to that are not performing well to do better and the ones that are working hard to work even harder‚ having a good strategy in place will help an employer to decide what is a fair reward to give to each employer. A compensation strategy must have a link between three things in order to be effective
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exchange for job performance and commitment‚ an employer offers rewards to employees. Adequate rewards and compensations potentially attract a quality work force‚ maintain the satisfaction of existing employees‚ keep quality employees from leaving‚ and motivate them in the workplace. According to research conducted by the Corporate Executive Board‚ the most important workplace attribute is compensation‚ (The Increasing Call for Work-Life Balance‚ 2009). Not only must wages be set high enough to motivate
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workforce planningBUSINESS VALUE GUIDE VOLUME 5 COGNOS PLAN-TO-PERFORM BLUEPRINTS HEADCOUNT & COMPENSATION PLANNING Headcount and Compensation Planning helps corporations manage cross-enterprise employee headcount‚ compensation‚ and benefit costs to align departmental decisions with corporate objectives. Employee-related costs often comprise the greatest share of corporate operating expenses. It is no surprise that executive management focuses on controlling employee expenses in every
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different stakeholders of a company compensation system and the human resource department provides them within and outside the companies. They are as follow: Employees‚ line managers‚ executives‚ unions‚ and US government. Stakeholders is performance-based compensation that focuses everyone in an organization on long-term while providing unlimited compensation opportunities for those who make it happen. This will create a strategic planning and compensation in an organization. (Higgins‚ 2006)
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paper will be how employees are categorized and at what level they are categorized at. What the goals and expectations for each level are and how they can be reached. How compensation is dispersed and awarded and how the compensation is given. This paper will also discuss what kind of compensation is given‚ whether the compensation is monetary or in another form. This paper will also discuss what the incentives will be for reporting abuse of other employees or violation of company policies and procedures
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Introduction In an organization the compensation strategies and practices are very important to the employees. Based on our group discussion and researches‚ we had found that the different author use different definition to interpret the meaning of compensation strategies and practices. The successful compensation practices depend on a organization ability to develop and implement systematic training program (Mello 2002; Lundy and Cowling 1996: Martocchio 2009). Compensation is total of all the rewards provided
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CEO Compensation Carola Frydman1 Dirk Jenter2 November 2010 1 Sloan School of Management‚ Massachusetts Institute of Technology‚ Cambridge‚ Massachusetts 02142; email: frydman@mit.edu Graduate School of Business‚ Stanford University‚ Stanford‚ California 94305; email: djenter@stanford.edu 2 Abstract This paper surveys the recent literature on CEO compensation. The rapid rise in CEO pay over the past 30 years has sparked an intense debate about the nature of the pay-setting process.
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