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Human Resource Management

Sixteenth Edition, Global Edition

Chapter 11

Establishing Strategic Pay


Plans

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Learning Objectives (1 of 2)
11.1 List the basic factors determining pay rates.
11.2 Define and give an example of how to conduct a job
evaluation.
11.3 Explain in detail how to establish a market-competitive
pay plan.

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Learning Objectives (2 of 2)
11.4 Explain how to price managerial and professional jobs.
11.5 Explain the difference between competency-based and
traditional pay plans.

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Learning Objective 11.1: List the Basic
Factors Determining Pay Rates

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Basic Factors in Determining Pay Rates
• Employee Compensation
– Direct financial payments
▪ wages, salaries, incentives, commissions, and
bonuses
– Indirect financial payments
▪ employer-paid insurance and vacations

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Aligning Total Rewards with Strategy
• Aligned Reward Strategy – is creating a compensation
package that produces the employee behaviors the firm
needs to achieve its competitive strategy.

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Equity and Its Impact on Pay Rates
• Equity Theory of Motivation
– once a person perceives an inequity a tension or drive
will develop that motivates him or her to reduce the
tension and perceived inequity
– Types of equity
▪ External
▪ Internal
▪ Individual
▪ Procedural

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Pay Polices
• The employer’s compensation strategy will manifest itself
in pay policies.
– Geography
▪ How to account for geographic differences in cost
of living

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Learning Objective 11.2: Define and
Give an Example of How to Conduct a
Job Evaluation

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Job Evaluation Methods
• Job Evaluation
– Relative work
– Results in a salary structure/hierarchy
• Market-Based Approach
– conducting formal or informal salary surveys to
determine what others in the relevant labor markets
are paying for particular jobs
• Market-competitive pay plan
– Internal and external equity

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Compensable Factors
• Compensable Factors
– A fundamental, compensable element of a job, such
as skill, effort, responsibility, and working conditions
– Establish how jobs compare one to another

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Job Evaluation Methods: Ranking (1 of 2)
1. Obtain job information
2. Select and group jobs
3. Select compensable factors
4. Rank jobs
5. Combine ratings
6. Compare current pay with what others are paying based
on salary surveys
7. Assign a new pay scale

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Job Evaluation Methods: Ranking (2 of 2)
Table 11-2 Job Ranking at Jackson Hospital

Ranking Order Our Current Annual What Others Pay: Our Final
Pay Scale Salary Survey Pay Assigned Pay
1. Office manager $43,000 $45,000 $44,000
2. Chief nurse 42,500 43,000 ​42,750
3. Bookkeeper 34,000 36,000 35,000
4. Nurse 32,500 33,000 32,750
5. Cook 31,000 32,000 31,500
6. Nurse’s aide 28,500 30,500 29,500
7. Orderly 25,500 27,000 27,000

Note: After ranking, it becomes possible to slot additional jobs (based on overall job
difficulty, for instance) between those already ranked and to assign each an appropriate
wage rate.

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Job Evaluation Methods: Job
Classification
Figure 11-4 Example of a Grade Definition

Grade Nature of Assignment Level of Responsibility


GS-7 Performs specialized duties in a Work is assigned in terms of objectives,
defined functional or program priorities, and deadlines; the employee
area involving a wide variety of works independently in resolving most
problems or situations; conflicts; completed work is evaluated
develops information, identifies for conformance to policy; guidelines,
interrelationships, and takes such as regulations, precedent cases,
actions consistent with and policy statements require
objectives of the function or considerable interpretation and
program served. adaptation.

Source: From “Grade Level Guide for Clerical and Assistance Work” from U.S. Office of
Personnel Management, June 1989.

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Job Evaluation Methods: The Point
Method & Computerized Job Evaluations
• The point method
• A job evaluation method in which a number of
compensable factors are identified and then the degree
to which each of these factors is present on the job is
determined
• Computerized job evaluations

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Learning Objective 11.3: Explain in Detail
How to Establish a Market-Competitive
Pay Plan

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How to Create a Market-Competitive
Pay Plan (1 of 4)
1. Choose Benchmark Jobs
2. Select Compensable Factors
3. Assign Weights to Compensable Factors
4. Convert Percentages to Points for Each Factor

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How to Create a Market-Competitive
Pay Plan (2 of 4)
5. Define Each Factor’s Degrees
6. Determine For Each Factor Its Factor Degrees’ Points
7. Review Job Descriptions and Job Specifications
8. Evaluate the Jobs

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How to Create a Market-Competitive
Pay Plan (3 of 4)
9. Draw the Current (Internal) Wage Curve
10.Conduct a Market Analysis: Salary Survey
11.Draw the Market (External) Wage Curve
12.Compare and Adjust Current and Market Rates for Jobs

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How to Create a Market-Competitive
Pay Plan (4 of 4)
13.Develop Pay Grades
14.Establish Rate Ranges
15.Address Remaining Job
16.Correct Out-of-Line Rates

– Underpaid / Red circle

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Learning Objective 11.4: Explain How to
Price Managerial and Professional Jobs

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Pricing Managerial and Professional
Jobs
• What Determines Executive Pay
• Compensating Executives
– Base Pay
– Short-term Incentives
– Long-term incentives
– Executive Benefits and Perks

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Learning Objective 11.5: Explain the
Difference Between Competency-Based
and Traditional Pay Plans

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Contemporary Topics in Compensation
• Competency-based pay
• Broadbanding
• Comparable worth
• Board oversight of executive pay
• Total rewards

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Competency-Based Pay
• Competencies are demonstrable personal characteristics
such as knowledge, skills, and personal behaviors.
• Competency-based pay means the company pays for the
employee’s range, depth, and types of skills and
knowledge, rather than for the job title he or she holds.

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Broadbanding
Figure 11-11 Broadbanded
Structure and How It Relates to
Traditional Pay Grades and Ranges

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Comparable Worth
• Comparable worth refers to the requirement to pay men
and women equal wages for jobs that are dissimilar but of
comparable value to the employer.

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Chapter 11 Review

What you should now know….

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