Compensation encompasses all financial returns and tangible benefits employees receive from their employment. It includes direct cash payments and indirect benefits, forming the total compensation package.
All forms of financial returns and tangible services and benefits employees receive as part of an employment relationship.
Forms of Pay
- Relational returns:
are psychological.
1 ) Forms of pay are categorized in two ways.
- Total compensation:
is pay received directly as cash and indirectly as benefits.
Compensation does not mean the same thing to everyone
Employees
3 ) Pay can influence employee motivation and behavior in two ways:
- The incentive effect is the degree to which pay influences individual and aggregate motivation.
- The sorting effect is the effect that pay can have on the composition of the workforce.
- How an organization pays can result in sorting effects.
2 ) Employees may see compensation as:
- a return in an exchange,
- an entitlement for being an employee of the company,
- an incentive to take/stay in a job and invest in performing well, or
- as a reward for having done so.
1 ) Pay is usually a major source of financial security.
Managers
1 ) Compensation influences manager’s success in two ways.
- First, it is a major expense that must be managed.
- Second, it is a major determinant of employee attitudes and behaviors.
Stockholders
2 ) Stockholders have a particular interest in executive pay.
L- inking executive pay to company performance increases stockholders' returns.
1 ) Some stockholders say using stock to pay employees creates a sense of ownership.
- Others argue it dilutes stockholder wealth
Society
2 ) Job losses (or gains) in a country is partly a function of labor costs (and productivity).
1 ) Some people see pay as a measure of justice.
- Laws and regulations aim to eliminate the gap between male/female earnings differentials.
- Benefits may also be seen as a reflection of equality or justice in society.