Bài giảng Fundamentals of human resource management - Chapter 12 Recognizing employee contributions with pay

FUNDAMENTALS OF HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT 5TH EDITIONBY R.A. NOE, J.R. HOLLENBECK, B. GERHART, AND P.M. WRIGHTCHAPTER 12 RECOGNIZING EMPLOYEE CONTRIBUTIONS WITH PAYPay for Individual PerformancePay for Group Performance:GainsharingGainsharing – group incentive program that measures improvements in productivity and effectiveness and distributes a portion of each to employees.Addresses challenge of identifying appropriate performance measures for complex jobs.Frees employees to determine how to improve their own and their group’s performance.Pay for Group Performance:Group Bonuses and Team AwardsBonuses for group performance tend to be for smaller work groups.These bonuses reward the members of a group for attaining a specific goal, usually measured in terms of physical output.Similar to group bonuses, but more likely to use a broad range of performance measures:Cost savingsSuccessful completion of a projectMeeting deadlinesGroup BonusesTeam AwardsPay for Organizational Performance:Profit SharingProfit sharing – incentive pay in which payments are a percentage of the organization’s profits and do not become part of the employees’ base salary.Profit sharing may encourage employees to think like owners.Evidence is not clear whether profit sharing helps organizations perform better.Pay for Organizational Performance:Stock OwnershipRights to buy a certain number of shares of stock at a specified price.Traditionally, stock options have been granted to executives.(ESOP) – an arrangement in which the organization distributes shares of stock to all its employees by placing it in a trust.Most common form of employee ownership.Stock OptionsESOPsBalanced ScorecardBalanced scorecard – a combination of performance measures directed toward the company’s long- and short-term goals and used as the basis for awarding incentive pay.Four categories of a balanced scorecard include:financialcustomerinternallearning and growthProcesses That Make Incentives WorkEmployee participation in pay-related decisions can be part of a general move toward employee empowerment.Employee participation can contribute to the incentive plan’s success.Communication demonstrates that the pay plan is fair.When employees understand the incentive pay plan’s requirements, the plan is more likely to influence their behavior as desired.Important when changing the pay plan.Participation in DecisionsCommunicationIncentive Pay for ExecutivesBonuses based on ROI, year’s profits, or other measures related to the organization’s goals.Actual payment of bonus may be delayed to gain tax advantages.Include stock options and stock purchase plans.Rationale is that executives will want to do what is best for the organization because that will cause the value of their stock to grow.Short-Term IncentivesLong-Term IncentivesIncentive Pay for Executives:Ethical IssuesIncentive pay for executives lays the groundwork for significant ethical issues.When an organization links pay to its stock performance, executives need the courage to be honest about their company’s performance even when dishonesty or clever shading of the truth offers the tempting potential for large earnings.