This document discusses compensation planning and various components of compensation. It covers direct and indirect compensation, objectives of compensation, types of compensation including wages, salary, incentives, fringe benefits and perks. It describes different wage systems like time rate, piece rate and balance method. It also discusses wage fixation, differentials and various incentive plans.
2. Concept:
Basic returns that an employee obtains from his work
Receive in exchange for their contribution
Important function of human resource management
It is a “glue”
Package of financial and non financial benefits
Offered to retain employees
Acts as motivating factor
Two main components:
Direct financial and indirect payments
Direct payment consists of: Salaries /wages etc
Indirect payment : Paid leaves, insurance, pension etc
3. Nature of Compensation:
Builds an allowance for company profit
Helps in increasing morale
Used as reward
Helps in achieving internal and external equity
Helps in reducing turnover
Hierarchy of pay levels
Hierarchy of jobs
Set of rules and regulations
8. Wages:
Wage is monetary compensation or remuneration paid
by an employer to employee
Regular payment usually hourly or weekly basis
Paid to blue collar workers
Paid in cash
Ex: A worker may be paid Rs 100 per day or rs 4500 per
month
9. Importance of wage system:
Attract and Retain employees
Builds high morale
Satisfied employees
Labor cost equitable
No favoritism
Clearly line drawn of promotion
Image of progressive employer
Harmonious industrial relation
Ensure minimum wages
10. Factors influencing wage
system:
Ability to pay
Supply and demand of labor
Prevailing market rates
Cost of living
Bargaining of trade unions
Productivity
Government regulations
Cost of training
Psychological and social factors
11. Various systems of wage
payment:
Time Rate system
Piece Rate system
Work study system
Balance or Debt system
Incentive systems of wage payment
12. Time Rate system:
Oldest and most prevalent method
Employee is paid on weekly, monthly or regular basis
Non variable method
Wage=Time spent*Rate per unit of time T*R
Suppose the worker is paid Rs 10 per hr and he worked
for 15 hours so his wages will be
15*10=150Rs
13. Advantages Disadvantages
Simple method Doesn’t differentiate between efficient
and inefficient workers
Sense of security Requires continuous supervision
Maintain quality Slow work
Less wastage Fixed wages
Avoids quarrels among workers No positive inducement
14. Piece Rate System:
Workers are paid on the basis of units produced
Doesn’t considers the time spent by workers
Known as result by payment or output
Wage = N*R
Ex: If 2500 units were produced by a worker in 1200 hrs
Rate of production is Rs 3/- per unit so his wages will be
2500*3=7500 Rs
15. Advantages Disadvantages
Fair to employer and employees Doesn’t help in producing quality
Helps to reduce idle time Workers’ feel insecure in this system
Incentive system Extra supervision cost
Limited supervision Complicated system
Freedom of work to workers Not fair to trainees
Determine the exact labor cost Disturbs unity of workers
Brings cordial relations
Doesn’t help for a uniform flow of
production
16. Balance method system:
Combination of time and piece rate system
Worker is paid fixed wage
Method ensures the worker the receipt of a fixed amount
as wage in all cases
Is also known as ‘debt method’
17. Incentive systems:
Extra financial reward / motivation
Performance link reward to improve motivation and
productivity of the employees
Extra pay for extra performance in addition to regular
wages
Includes both monetary as well as non monetary benefits
Not fixed like wages and salaries
Payment by results
18. Importance:
Workers are likely to work at their best when they are
offered monetary rewards for good performance
It helps to improve work flow, work methods and man
machine relationship
It helps to bring employee involvement to make
employee innovative
Incentives are the sound technique of improving
productivity
It helps to improve discipline and industrial relation
The cost of supervision is reduced
It helps in obtaining desired results
19. Classification of incentive
plans:
Individual based
Time based
Output based
Organization wide
Profit Sharing
Co-partnership
Gain sharing
Esop’s
Group based
Time based
20. Types of wages
Subsistence wage
Minimum wage
Fair wage
Living wage
22. Wage Differentials:
Differences or disparities in wages
Wages differ in different employments or occupations
industries and localities and also between persons in the
same employment or grade
One therefore comes across such terms as occupational
wage differentials, inter industry, inter firm, inter area or
geographical differentials and personal differentials
23. Various wage plans:
Halsey Plan:
Time saving bonus plan
Optional for worker to work on premium plan or not
Day wages assures whether he earns a premium or not
Bonus is based on amount of time saved by worker
Wages are paid on time rate basis
Combination of day wage and piece wage in modified
firm
Formula=1/2time saved /time taken * daily wage
24. Advantages:
Guarantees a fixed time wage to slow workers and at the
same time offers extra pay to efficient workers
The cost of labor is reduced because of the percentage
premium system, the piece rate of pay gradually
decreases with increased production
Plan is simple and easy to introduce
As wages are guaranteed, it does not create any
heartburning among such workers as are unable to reach
the standard
Workers can earn more by saving time
Employer gets 50% of time saved
25. Disadvantage:
It depends upon past performance instead of making
new standards
Incentive is not strong as piece rate system
Employee gets reward for only 50% of the time saved
26. Rowan plan:
Time saved is expressed as a percentage of the time
allowed and the hourly rate of pay is increased by that
percentage so that total earnings of the worker are total
number of hours multiplied by increased hourly wages
Aims at ensuring the permanence of the premium rate
which is often cut by the employer when the worker’s
efficiency increased beyond a certain limit
The premium is calculated on the basis of the proportion
which the time saved bears to standard time
Formula: Bonus = Time saved/time allowed*Time
taken*Hourly rate
27. Advantages:
Time rate is guaranteed
Workers can earn more by saving time
Better wage is earned by the employees their
improvement in efficiency is rewarded
This automatic check enables the worker to earn a fair
wage, because there is less chance of rate cutting by the
employer as he is not paying extra ordinary wages
•Workers can earn more by saving time
•Better wage is earned by the employees their improvement in efficiency is rewarded
•This automatic check enables the worker to earn a fair wage, because there is less chance of rate cutting by the employer as he is not paying extra ordinary wag
28. Disadvantages:
Incentive is not strong as piece rate system
It is difficult to compute than Hasley system
Sharing principle is not welcomed by employees
Where time saved is more than 50% of time allowed, the
incentive is lower
30. Features of fringe benefits:
Different from regular wages
Employee motivation
Useful but avoidable expenditure
Not directly linked with efforts
Beneficial to all employees
31. Objectives of Fringe
Benefits:
To supplement direct remuneration
To develop good corporate image
To retain competent employees
Employers prefer fringe benefits
To raise employee morale
32. Advantages:
Fringe benefits provide support to remuneration paid to employees
Fringe benefits improve efficiency and productivity of employees
Fringe benefits reduce monotony and fatigue of employees. They
make employees efficient and co-operative for whatever
organizational changes required to introduced
Fringe benefits raise morale of the employees. They develop affinity
for the organization
Fringe benefits develop good corporate image and raise market
standing of the organization
Fringe benefits act as a motivating force. They motivate employees
and induce them to work for the progress and prosperity of the
organization
33. Disadvantages:
May lead to unhealthy competition among employees
The expected benefit may not be available if the monetary benefits
are not adequately attractive to employees
The motivation may not be as per expectation if the implementation
of the benefits scheme is not transparent
34. Types of Fringe Benefits:
Types of Fringe Benefits
Payment for
time not worked
by the employee
Contingent and
deferred
benefits
Legally
required
payments
Miscellaneous
benefits
•Holidays
•Vacations
•Leave with pay
and allowances
•Pension payment
•Group life
insurance benefit
•Sick, leave,
maternity, child
care
•Old age,
disability and
health insurance
•Unemployment
compensation
•Worker’s
compensation
•Travel Allowances
•Company car and
membership of
clubs etc
•Moving expenses
•Child care facilities
•Total expenses
and meal
allowances
35. Perks:
Refer to a privilege, benefit or a facility that an employee enjoys in
addition to the regular salary
Attached to the position of the individual in the company and
typically, higher the designation greater are the perks offered
For instance the chief executive of a company could enjoy free use of
the company car or a paid membership in a country club as a part of
his perks
It also include houses, insurances etc
Perks are things that people want
Perks are for motivating employees rewarding employees and
fueling business performance
Moreover business perks are less formal and not contractual rights,
they can also be taken away when situation change- for better or
worse
36. Types of Perks:
Taxable for all employees
Fully exempted
Taxable for specified employees only