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Companies today should mirror their compensation and benefit programs with their long- term business strategy and organizational culture. According to Casio (2010), “Pay systems are designed to attract, retain, and motivate employees” (p.421). The most important objective is fairness or to achieve internal, external, and individual equity; and maintain a balance in relationships between direct and indirect forms of compensation, and between the pay rates of supervisory and nonsupervisory employees. Employers must perform job analysis, develop job descriptions, evaluate the value of job/position in the organization, develop pay structure and pay levels to create competitive employee compensation and benefits (Cascio, 2010).…
There are advantages and disadvantages to both open and closed pay systems, however it is apparent that the advantages of open pay outweigh the advantages of closed pay from the ethics triangle perspective. Regardless of certain advantages, pay confidentiality can be ethically problematic, which is illustrated in the perspectives of both rule-based and virtue-based analysis. Closed pay from a rule-based analysis seems to treat people as a means to an end stops personnel from being informed and empowered. Employees are stripped of the privilege of knowing what determines their salaries, which is an important dimension of their work life. Virtue-based analysis also illustrates the flaws of closed pay systems. Closed pay system can be a breeding ground for manipulation and scandals such as coercion. Not to mention close pay systems take away the publics right to know. Ultimately, closed pay systems can compromise “the greatest good, duty, and personal integrity,” and in doing so “it needlessly puts a hallmark of modern democratic government –a professional civil service –at risk” (Bowman and Stevens, 2012, p.487). In contrast, Salary disclosure acts as an enforcer of moral responsibility of those in power, which benefits both employee and citizens. Also open pay systems encourage justifiable salary decisions and help “personnel to better understand the agency missions, why they earn what they do, and what they should do to earn more” (Bowman and Stevens, 2012, p.487).…
Current state of Executive compensation within the US differs from different compensation practices within the forms it takes, laws and regulation it's subject to, its dramatic rise over the past 3 decades and wide go criticism leveled against it. Within the past 3 decades in America government compensation or pay has up dramatically on the far side what is often explained by changes in firm size, performance, and trade classification. It’s the very best within the world in each absolute term and relative to median earnings within the America. It has been criticized not solely as excessive, however conjointly for "rewarding failure" as well as large drops available value. Observers dissent on what proportion of the increase in and nature of this compensation may be a natural result of competition for scarce business talent benefiting investor price, and the way abundant is that the work of manipulation and self-dealing by management unrelated to produce, demand, or reward for performance.…
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The idea of merit pay originated in the year 1950 (Turner, 2010). Other industries are often using performance based pay in order to reward their employees, and one field that uses these methods is professional athletes. There are very few fields where employees can work “as they wish” (Solmon & Podgursky, 2000). Originally, using merit pay in the teaching field failed due to the lack of buy-ins from districts and also due to not finding a great way to measure the teacher performance (Turner, 2010). Business practices cannot be used within the education field because they are not compatible, and also because teaching is not to be considered a business. In more recent years, they have begun to review the idea of performance pay (Solmon & Podgursky, 2000). This idea was put forward by the…
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In 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 and attract good talent, they must also be equitable—that is, the wage must accurately reflect the value of the labor performed. Fair and equitable compensation is a crucial factor in the success of an organization. It is important because it is a tool that is used to recruit, maintain, and motivate their employees to contribute to the organization’s success.…
The military compensation system, like many others, is a multilayer package comprised of direct compensation, indirect compensation, and additional considerations not afforded to most civilian sector employees (Bricka, 2016). As the civilian sector continues to graduate its compensation system to accommodate the labor economics of today’s society, the military fails to trend in the same direction. The current military compensation system is adequate to most but is outdated and in need of reform. “It is rooted in industrial-era labor management practices, not linked to defined organizational outcomes, and rests upon an ineffectual evaluation system. It does little to incentivize performance” (Wallace, Colarusso, Hall, Lyle, & Walker, 2015).…
As states and local governments still struggle to recover and balance their budgets more than five years after the great recession began, much attention has focused nationally on how public workers are compensated, particularly with regard to personnel benefits and the ability of state and local governments to fund them. The soundness of many state and local pension and retiree health care plans is of particular concern. State and local governments are facing considerable pension and retiree health care obligations that have significantly contributed to their financial problems. Nationwide unfunded liabilities for pension and retiree health care range anywhere from $ 1.4 to over $4 trillion, depending upon what assumptions one uses.…
7) Which two factors should compensation professionals consider before endorsing the use of merit pay systems?…