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98 terms jspe Direct financial compensationcompensation received in the form of salary, wages, commissions, stock options or bonuses indirect financial compensationall the tangible and financially valued rewards that are not included in direct compensation including free meals, vacation time and health insurance nonfinancial compensationrewards and incentives given to employees that aren't financial in nature base payreflects the size and scope of an employee's responsibilities severance paygive to employees upon termination of their employment fixed paypays employees a set amount regardless of performance variable paybases some or all of an employee's compensation on employee, team, or organizational pay structurethe array of pay rates for different work or skills within a single organization pay mixthe relative emphasis give to different compensation components pay leaderorganization with a compensation policy of giving employees greater rewards than competitors pay followeran organization that pays its front-line employees as little as possible

resource dependence theoryproposition that organizational decisions are influenced by both internal and external agents who control critical resources wage differentialsdifferences in wage between various workers, groups of workers, or workers within a career field labor marketall of the potential employees located within a geographic area from which the organization might be able to hire cost of living allowancesclauses in union contacts that automatically increase wages base on the U.S.Bureau of Labor Statistics' cost of living index market pricinguses external sources of information about how others are compensating a certain position to assign value to a company's similar job Compensation surveyssurveys of other organizations conducted to learn what they are paying for specific jobs or job classes benchmark jobsjobs that tend to exist across departments and across diverse organizations allowing them to be used as a basis for compensation comparisons job evaluationa systematic process that uses expert judgement to assess differences in value between jobs ranking methossubjectively compares jobs to each other based on their overall worth to the organization job classification methodsubjectively classifies jobs into an exiting hierarchy of grades and categories point factor methoduses a set of compensable factors to determine a job's value. skill, resp, effort, working cond.compensable factorany characteristic used to provide a basis for judging a job's value skills, responsibilities, effort, working conditions Four categories of compensable factors Hay Group Guide Chart - Profile Methoda point-factor system is used to produce both a profile and a point score for each position.know how problem solving accountability working conditions Know-how, problem solving, accountability, working conditions Hay Group Method based on four main factors Position Analysis Questionnairea structured job evaluation questionnaire that is statistically analyzed to calculate pay rates based on how the labor market is valuing worker characteristics. a copyrighted, standardized, structured job analysis questionnaire. 6 sections covering 187 job elements.

job pricingthe generation of salary structures and pay levels for each job based on the job evaluation data single rate system, pay grades and broadbanding Three most common job pricing systems pay grade (pay scale)the range of possible pay for a group of jobs broadbandingusing very wide pay grades to increase pay flexibility internal equitywhen employees perceive their pay to be fair relative to the pay of other jobs in the organization employee equitythe perceived fairness of the relative pay between employees performing similar jobs for the same organization external equitywhen an organization's employees believe that their pay is fair when compared to what other employers pay their employees who perform similar jobs comparable worthif two jobs have equal difficulty requirements, the pay should be the same, regardless of who fills them wage rate compressionstarting salaries for new hires exceed the salaries paid to experienced employees golden parachutelucrative benefits given to executives in the event the company is taken over Cost-of-living adjustmentspay increases to account for a higher cost of living in one country versus another Housing allowancepayments to subsidize or cover housing and related costs hardship premiumsincreased salary for living in an area with a lower quality of life, less safety, etc.tax equalization paymentsincreased salary to make up for higher taxes that reduce take-home pay and decrease employee's purchasing power inflation adjustmentslarger and/or more frequent raises to maintain employee's purchasing power in the face of inflation Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938a federal law that sets standards for minimum wages, overtime pay, and equal pay for men and women performing the same jobs exempt employeesemployees who meet one of the FLSA exemption tests, are paid on a fixed salary basis and are not entitled to overtime pay non-exempt employeesemployees who do not meet any of one of the FLSA exemption tests and are paid on an hourly basis and covered by wage and hour laws regarding minimum wage, overtime pay and hours worked

workers' compensationa type of insurance that replaces wages and medical benefits for employees injured on the job in exchange for relinquishing the employee's right to sue the employer for negligence fixed rewardspredetermined compensation (salary and benefits) variable rewards (incentives)"at risk" rewards which are linked to factors determined as valuable, including performance, skills, competence and contribution

• Recognize and reward high performers
• Increase the likelihood of achieving corporate goals
• Improve productivity
• Move away from an entitlement culture

Top four reasons organizations give for tying pay to performance ar

• Preference of individual employees
• Size of the rewards for high performance
• Method of motivating individual job performance
• Objectivity of the evaluation process that determines

the rewards Before designing an incentive pay plan to motivate performance, it is important to consider the

• Company performance
• Reduced merit increases
• Reductions in head count
• Reduced benefits
• Pay freezes

Most common way employers fund variable pay programs reward differnentiationdifferentiating rewards based on performance rather than giving all employees the same reward short-term incentivesone-time variable rewards used to motivate short-term employee behavior and performance (typically one year or less). ie bonus or profit sharing. to motivate attendance, cust serv, safety, production quality and quantity profit sharingthe distribution of organizational profits to all employees stock optionsthe right of an employee to buy shares of the company's stock at a certain price (the exercise price) during some future period of time long-term incentivesincentives that motivate behaviors and performance that support company value and long-term organizational health. ie stock options vestingthe point at which employees can sell or transfer the stock option pay for performance programsrewards employees based on some specific measure of their performance variable pay planspay for performance plans that put a small amount of base pay at risk, in exchange for the opportunity to earn additional pay if performance meets or exceeds a standard spot awardsawards given immediately when a desired behavior is seen