Total Rewards Flashcards

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Approaches to Job Analysis

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Position Analysis Questionnaire (PAQ)

Task Inventory Analysis

Critical Incident Method

Competency-based Analysis

Functional Job Analysis

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Methods of Job Evaluation

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Non-quantitative methods - whole job comparison methods
1) Ranking
2) Job classification/grading

Quantitative methods - compensable factor job methods
1) Factor comparison
2) Point-factor

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Methods to Determine Base Pay

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Market Pricing

Pay for Knowledge

Job Evaluation

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Content Theories of Motivation (human motivation is driven by a person’s need - economic/social)

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Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs

Herzberg’s Two-Factor theory

Hackman and Oldham’s Job Characteristics theory

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Process Theories of Motivation (focus is on the processes people use to decide their actions)

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Reinforcement theory

Expectancy theory

Equity theory

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Individual Short-term Performance Pay

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Raise

Lump sum merit bonus

Commission

Piece rate

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Group Short-term Performance Pay

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Goal sharing

Profit sharing

Gain sharing

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Long-term Rewards (Performance)

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Employee stock bonus plans

Employee share purchase plans

Employee stock option plans

Phantom shares

Share appreciation rights

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Intrinsic Rewards

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Task identity - when employees are able to perform all aspects of a job

Task significance - social value, they are able to see how their efforts have a positive impact on others

Skill variety - utilizing many skills

Job autonomy - freedom to act, ability to determine how they will perform their tasks

Job feedback - self-monitoring

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Extrinsic Rewards

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Direct pay/monetary rewards (base pay, performance pay)

Indirect pay
-Health & welfare benefits
-Retirement plans
-Time off with pay
-Perquisites and employee services (e.g. cars, clubs, education reimbursement)
-Working conditions
-Supervisor behaviour/management style
-Co-workers

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Factors Influencing Total Rewards

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Internal environment
-Sector
-Growth strategy
-Competitive strategy
-Culture
-Demographics
-Unionization
-Nature of work

External environment
-Economy - cost of living
-Labour force - availability of labour
-Competitive practices
-Regulatory (employment standards, pay equity)

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Content Theories of Motivation (human motivation is driven by a person’s need - economic/social)

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Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs - people will first seek to satisfy their basic needs before graduating to psychological and self-fulfillment needs

Herzberg’s Two-Factor theory - money is not a motivator, will not lead to job satisfaction (that depends on the intrinsic rewards of the job) but it can lead to job dissatisfaction if one believes their pay is insufficient

Hackman and Oldham’s Job Characteristics theory - focuses on intrinsic motivation, job design is an important element of a total rewards program

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Process theories of motivation - focus is on the processes people use to decide their actions

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Reinforcement theory - when reward strategies are designed to reward desired behaviours, positive and negative reinforcement strategies will increase performance (+ve/-ve reinforcement/punishment/extinction)

Expectancy theory - employees will work harder if they believe their efforts will lead to the outcomes desired (expectancy/instrumentality/valence)

Equity theory - employees will be demotivated if they believe the rewards they receive under represent the value they contribute (procedural/distributive justice)

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Universal Compensable Factors (Pay Equity Compliant)

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Skill

Working Conditions

Responsibility

Effort

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Methods to compare value of female and male dominant jobs

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Job to job method - comparing two jobs in each classification (works in larger orgs with more positions)

Proportional value method - in orgs that don’t have direct male and female job class comparisons, the value of jobs can be estimated

Proxy comparison method - compare male dominant jobs to female dominant ones in other gov’t orgs

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Compa-ratio

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For an individual = pay / range midpoint

For everyone in a pay grade = mean pay / range midpoint

For a department/job family/whole company = mean compa-ratio for all employees in question

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Types of Retirement Plans

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Defined Contribution = Money Purchase Plan - employee doesn’t know what they will receive, but they know what the contribution is

Defined Benefit - contribution to the plan and the benefit received on retirement are each defined, benefit received is defined by a formula

Hybrid - combination of the two

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Types of Retirement Plans

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Fixed - employees have no choice over the benefits they receive

Flexible - employees can choose the benefits they want the most

Semi-flexible - some fixed and flexible benefits, employees have some but not total choice