Wednesday, December 5, 2012

WEB BASED COMPENSATION AND PLANNING


Compensation - what you pay someone to entice them to continue to do work for your company - is a critical facet of any manager's job. Often, unless you are the president or owner of the company, you have others helping you deal with compensation issues - like a human resources department or consultant. Compensation includes many things beyond straight salary. It also includes benefits, perks, stock options, etc. You have to balance what these cost against what your employees perceives as their value, and that varies by employee.
 You have to measure compensation levels against other employees in the company, against other employees in other companies in similar positions, and against performance. You have to determine salary ranges for existing positions and adjust those periodically to compensate for economic factors (cost of living changes, inflation) and competitive pressures (industry demand for that type of employee, profit margins).
In my opinion, Web based compensation and planning is an online compensation system or approach used to arrange the compensation tools that enable the company to collect, store, manipulate, analyze, utilize, and distribute the compensation data or information. When company using the web based compensation system, all information regarding to the compensation will be more systematic and clear (McGaughey, 2011). This could allow the upper and lower management easy to look at the compensation provide by company.
  There are  advantages use the web based compensation and planning. Simplify the process of give compensation are one of the benefit used the web based compensation and planning system. Company can save the time use to check the performance data of employees when want to provide compensation for them. This is because by using the effectiveness technology, the information will be more accuracy.
Also, web based compensation and planning are allow the company to streamline the administration of employee’s compensation and benefits. There are many web based compensation tools can use to administrate employee’s compensation. So, the company can use the web based compensation tools to manage the task.
Other advantages include web based enable the company sends messages to employees to view their variable pay performance targets. When employees receive the message, they could understand their current level of compensation and also the target of compensation they want to achieve in the future. This could give a very clear compensation planning for the employees and also could be a motivation for employees to work hard (Beam, 2001).
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11)     Beam, B. T. (2001). In Employee Benefits, 6th Edition (pp. 85-88). New York: Dearborn Real Estate Education.

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