The major objective of incentive plans is to preserve a company most capable people. In order to maintain the competitive edge, companies have to award incentive plans and bonuses that are similar or greater than other companies. The retentive of the best talent is merely a one benefits with offering incentive plans, when employees receive incentive for their work production tend to increase along with the company’s profits.
This author can remember when his former company offered profit sharing for achieving production and it was motivation to do better job. Smart companies recognize that motivated employees are productive employees, which inspires them to create tactics to keep their workforces gratified and inspired. Therefore, it is wise to offer Incentive plans for performance. With that said there are several incentive plans that can be utilized by companies such as “team and group incentives”, “piecework plans”, “stock options”, “non-tangible and recognition based awards”, “employee stock ownership” ,“merit pay”, and “profit sharing plans” (Dessler, 2011).
The focus of this paper is to researching different types of incentive plans offered by companies as a means to retain the best and brightest employees. Additionally, this author will research and discuss two of the incentive plans previously mentioned. Moreover, this author will emphasize the possible advantages and disadvantages of each of those incentive plans.
“Stock Options”
The first incentive plan this author will discuss is “stock option”. “Stock Options” according to Dessler (2011) is normally the type incentive received by executive and sometime lower lever employees of a company. When employees have stock option it give them the right to procure a...
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employee stock ownership can create a burden of long-term planning for the sustainability and repurchase program; not all employees can be able to purchase stock. According to the case, Atul believes in a total compensation between 0-10 percent based on employee’s salaries could play as a “trade-off” for a “supportive and respective work environment” (Calo et al., n.d.).
The company Steel Co, which has been established for around 30 years, has been in a steady decline during the current recession and although a Divisional Director has been employed by the owner the fortunes of the company have not improved. The staff is unhappy, unproductive and unimpressed by the Human Resource system that currently exists in the company. The pay structure that currently exists within the organisation has been much debated among employees who feel it is unsatisfactory. The Business Adviser will research Performance and Reward management tools in order to help the company develop a more suitable Performance and Reward system to use. A variety of sources will be used in order to evaluate the system and tools against other organisational frameworks. The pay structure within the company will also be looked at in order to identify any possible changes that could be made.
When looking at incentive contracts in management accounting literature, usually theories from the field of economics and psychology are combined. In some circumstances these theories can lead to quite opposing predictions of the effect of incentives on performance. In general incentive contracts are a decision influencing control tool used to make sure that people’s and the organizations goals are aligned. There are different theories about the effect of incentives on performance. In general, considering the working environment the prediction and empirical finding is that incentives increase performance or ‘you get what you pay for’. Although what you pay for is not always what the company, organization or society actually wants as is explained by Kerr (1975). In this paper I will not focus on these anomalies, but merely on the well-established relation between incentives and performance. Prendergast (1999) sees incentives as ‘the essence of economics’ . There is quite a lot of evidence suggesting that that there is a strong relation between pay-for performance and productivity. This is in line with predictions based on agency theory. Agency theory (Jensen and Meckling (1976), Jensen (1983), Gibbons (1996)) predicts that to make sure the employee exerts effort this needs to be made the rational choice. For it to be rational to exert effort incentives are ne...
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...r investigate what sort of rewards or fringes would their employee’s desire compared to the old method of monetary incentives for the beneficial for the company”.
Incentive reward engagement offers a win-win situation for the employees and the company. Kelleher believes that incentive is a form of recognition and builds engagement through company’s and employee’s obligations towards a common goal (2014). The company has a “Growth Incentive Scheme” for the production workers. Special monetary incentives are provided should the workers achieve the monthly output target. Through the rewards, employees feel motivated towards their work and thus, contribute towards the company’s
Johnson, Sam T. "Plan your organization’s reward strategy through pay for performance dynamics: Compensation & Benefits Review 30, Number 3: (May/June 1998): 67-72
A well-structured compensation system could have a major impact on employee’s behavior, performance and effectiveness in that company. Most compensation systems reflect the value of the company and how the company treats their employees. Employees look at the pay system of any company and they get a general idea about the company. A well strategist compensation system will bring in the right kind of employees because it says a lot about the organization values and practices. The company has to show in their compensation system that they help motive employees by offering some sort of security, advancement opportunity, and ...
Employee compensation and reward systems have undergone a couple of paradigm shifts since inception. Reward systems were traditionally compensation based and focused on the individual or the position (Beam 1995). After a recession in the early 1980's, employers turned to performance based models in an attempt to save money while still rewarding top performers (Applebaum & Shapiro, 1992). Today, the most successful organizations are using a total reward model, a hybrid of the performance based model combined with strategic human resource management planning to create reward systems that both benefit the employee and help organizations realize their operational goals (Chen & Hsieh, 2006).
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The organization is able to manage a high coverage of risks at relative low costs owing to the availability of highly skilled personnel in the company’s team of employees. This benefit also brings about another advantage of easing the financial burden of the organization (Johnson, 2016). Besides, effective employee benefit system offered by the organization could improve the general productivity. This benefit is attributed to the fact that employees tent to be more effective when they are given assurance of job security. In addition, workers become more productive when they and their families are given the desired security by the employer. The other benefit to the organization if it employs an effective compensation and benefits system entail benefits from premiums (Wayne, Shore, M., Bommer, & Tetrick, 2002). These premiums are typically tax deductibles as corporate expense. As such, a company that has an effective compensation and benefits system is likely save extra money for other
Formalized compensation goals serve as guidelines for managers to ensure that wage and benefit policies achieve their intended pur¬pose. The more common goals of compensation policy include to reward employees’ past performance, to remain competitive in the labor market, to maintain salary equity among employees, to motivate employees’ future performance, to maintain the budget, to attract new employees, and to reduce unnecessary turnover. It is important for the organ...
In any organization, sometimes, monetary schemes doesnot get people involve to pursue work in a certain way, rather it demoralize and threatens the self-esteem of employees. According to Meyer (1975), “the basis for most of the problems with merit pay plans is that most people think their own performance is above average”. The amount may ...
Reward systems have been evolving and growing throughout the years, but there are many types that have always been there. Base pay is the most common, which is an employee’s base wages and salary that they are paid on hourly, weekly, monthly, or annually (Luthans, 2011, p.94). Merit based pay is another type of incentive, which rewards and motivates an individual to perform their jobs to the standards of their employers. According to the text Organizational Behaviors, by Fred Luthans, there are three other options for paying an employee for their performance: individual incentives pay plans, using of bonuses, and the use of stock options. Individual based pay plans are based on the employees output and/or quality. Some organizations use bonuses as incentives to their employees. These are offered sometimes as op...