Compensation Management
Unit : 4
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Compensation Management
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What is Employee Compensation
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• Employee compensation
▫ All forms of pay or rewards going to employees and
arising from their employment.
Two main components of Compensation are:
• Direct financial payments
▫ Pay in the form of wages, salaries, incentives,
commissions, and bonuses.
• Indirect financial payments
▫ Pay in the form of financial benefits such as
insurance, food coupons, club membership, etc.
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Types Dr.Anuradha Phadnis
• Skill based/ Competency based pay. (KSA)
• Incentives. (Monetary –Individual/Group)
• Fringe benefits. (Monetary: PF, Gratuity,
medical care, etc.)
• Non-Financial Benefits:
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Recent Trends: CM
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Cont.
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Example Dr.Anuradha Phadnis
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Performance Linked Pay ?
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Performance-Linked Pay Programs
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Merit Pay Programs
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Individual incentive programs
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Calculation / Benefit Details Dr.Anuradha Phadnis
• P.F: always calculated in the proportion
of 1:1 (equal contribution from employee and
employer).
• Bonus = (Basic+ DA)*12*8.33% or 11% or
20%.(whichever is applicable)
• Gratuity: It is paid to employee who has
completed continuous 5 years of experience in
the same organization.
• Gratuity =( Basic + DA)/26 * 15* No. of
years of service.
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…….Calculation / Benefit Details
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• Superannuation is a retirement benefit; it is just
like a pension scheme. To avail superannuation
an employee should have reached preservation
age i.e. between 55 to 60 years and permanently
retires or reaches 65 years whether working or
not.
• Superannuation = 50 % of last 10 months
average emoluments* qualifying
service/33.
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……Calculation / Benefit Details
• VRS: to avail VRS scheme an employee should
have completed 10 years of continuous experience
at the same organization, and he should have
attained age of 40 years and above.
• In Lay-Off: an employee will get 50 % of salary
for every month for the period he is laid off.
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Advantages and Disadvantages
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Employees Separation
• Separation means cessation of service with the
organization for one or other reason.
• The employee may be separated from the pay
roll of a company as a result of :
• Death, Resignation, Discharge & Dismissal,
Suspension, Termination, Retrenchment, Lay –
off, Retirement-VRS- Voluntary Retirement
Scheme (Golden Hand Shake) & CRS-
Compulsory Retirement Scheme.
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Employees Separation
• The employee may be separated from the pay
roll of a company as a result of:
1) Resignation
2) Discharge & Dismissal
3) Suspension & Retrenchment
4) Lay – off
5) VRS- Voluntary Retirement Scheme
(Golden Hand Shake)
6) Superannuation
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Collective
Bargaining Arbitration
Code of Dispute
discipline Settlement Conciliation
Grievance
Procedure Adjudication
Consultative
Machinery
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GRIEVANCE PROCEDURE Dr.Anuradha Phadnis
• A grievance may be understood as an employees
dissatisfaction or feeling of personal injustice relating to his
or her employment relationship. It is restricted to violations
of the terms and conditions of employment.
• Other conditions
1) Violation of law, 2) violation of the intent of the parties as
stipulated during contract negotiations, 3) a violation of
company rules, 4) change in working conditions / past
company practices & 5) violation of health & safety
standards.
Steps in grievance procedure: 1) how the grievance will be
initiated, 2) the no. of steps in the process, 3) who will
represent each party, 4) the specified no. of working days
within which the grievance must be taken to the next step in
the hearing.
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Some general principles to guide the
procedure are:
• Grievance must be addressed promptly
• Procedures & forms airing grievances must be
easy to utilise and well-understood by
employees and their supervisors
• Ego-clashes should not be allowed to interfere
the resolution of disputes
• Occurrence of similar grievances must be
avoided.
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Expected Questions:
1) Define P.A. What are the methods of P.A.
• 2) Short Notes on:
- Rating Errors
3) Performance linked pay.
• Short notes on:
1. Golden hand shake / VRS.
2. Resignation.
3. Retrenchment & Layoffs.
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• References:
• HRM-Hand Book- Veera Kohli
• HRM – Aswathapa
• HRM- ICFAI
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