This document discusses incentive systems for different positions at a company. It proposes financial incentives like commissions, bonuses, and merit pay increases for administrative, sales, and service jobs. For administrative positions, it suggests using financial rewards for exceeding standards. For sales roles, it analyzes straight salary, commission-only, and combination plans. For mechanics, it evaluates piecework and merit pay plans. The document concludes by recommending incentives like merit pay, higher salaries for skilled professionals, and combining financial and non-financial rewards to motivate employees.
This document discusses incentive systems for different positions at a company. It proposes financial incentives like commissions, bonuses, and merit pay increases for administrative, sales, and service jobs. For administrative positions, it suggests using financial rewards for exceeding standards. For sales roles, it analyzes straight salary, commission-only, and combination plans. For mechanics, it evaluates piecework and merit pay plans. The document concludes by recommending incentives like merit pay, higher salaries for skilled professionals, and combining financial and non-financial rewards to motivate employees.
This document discusses incentive systems for different positions at a company. It proposes financial incentives like commissions, bonuses, and merit pay increases for administrative, sales, and service jobs. For administrative positions, it suggests using financial rewards for exceeding standards. For sales roles, it analyzes straight salary, commission-only, and combination plans. For mechanics, it evaluates piecework and merit pay plans. The document concludes by recommending incentives like merit pay, higher salaries for skilled professionals, and combining financial and non-financial rewards to motivate employees.
This document discusses incentive systems for different positions at a company. It proposes financial incentives like commissions, bonuses, and merit pay increases for administrative, sales, and service jobs. For administrative positions, it suggests using financial rewards for exceeding standards. For sales roles, it analyzes straight salary, commission-only, and combination plans. For mechanics, it evaluates piecework and merit pay plans. The document concludes by recommending incentives like merit pay, higher salaries for skilled professionals, and combining financial and non-financial rewards to motivate employees.
Download as DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
Download as docx, pdf, or txt
You are on page 1of 5
HRM ASSIGNMENT
Incentive system for the groups will be as follows:
1)10 Administrative positions- We can use various financial incentives – financial rewards are paid to workers whose production exceeds some predetermined standards. Performance and pay- Workers are paid to their performance. With the emphasis on competitiveness, productivity, and delivering measurable in bottom line results, the trend for virtually all employers is to tie at least some portion of their workers pay to the workers and/or the company’s performance. The problem is that doing so is easier said than done. Many such programs are ineffective. With lack of motivation such program can be somehow ineffective for the company. Motivation and Incentives- Several motivation theories have a particular relevance to designing incentive plans. These include theories associated with psychologists such as Frederick Herzberg, Edward Deci, Victor Vroom and B.F. Skinner. These theories can play a vital role in motivation of employees and also providing them with some pay incentive. They can also use Merit Pay as an Incentive- Merit pay or merit raise is any salary increase the firm awards to an individual employee based on his or her individual performance. It is different from a bonus in that it usually becomes part of employee’s base salary. Merit pay can be an incentive as it motivates employee to work harder and with determination as their performance affects the merit pay, they are going to get. 2)15 Sales position- Sales compensation plans typically rely on incentives in form of sales commissions. However, some salespeople get straight salaries, and most receive a combination of salary and commissions. So, such incentive plan can be set for the organisation. Salary Plan- Firms pay salespeople fixed salaries. Straight salaries particularly make sense when the task prospecting, or when it mostly involves account servicing. The main advantage of straight salary approach is it makes it easier to switch territories or to reassign salespeople, and it can foster sales staff loyalty. The disadvantage is that the pay isn’t proportionate to results. This can demotivate potentially high- performing salespeople. Commission Plan- Straight commission plans pay salespeople for results, and only for results. Under these plan salespeople have the greatest incentive. Commission plans tend to attract high- performing salespeople who see that effort clearly produces rewards. The potential drawback of commission- only plans is that working without a financial safety net can be unsettling. Also, salespeople tend to focus on making the sale and on high-volume items, and may neglect non-selling duties like services small accounts, cultivating dedicated customers, and pushing hard-to- sell items. Combination plan- Company can pay salespeople a combination of salary and commissions. This provides a financial security and also an incentive to earn more in terms of commission. However, while commission plan predominates in auto dealerships, they are not as popular as they were, with many dealerships substituting salary plus bonus plans for commissions. 3)10 Service positions (mechanics)- The company is following one of a piecework plan standard hour plan in which worker is paid a basic hourly rate for production exceeding the standard hourly rate but is paid an extra percentage of his or her rate for production exceeding the standard hour. The plan is not working out for the company as the turnover is very less. So, the other incentive system that the company can follow are: Merit Pay- Merit pay or merit raise is any salary increase the firm awards to an individual employee based on his or her individual performance. It is different from a bonus in that it usually becomes part of employee’s base salary. Merit pay can be an incentive as it motivates employee to work harder and with determination as their performance affects the merit pay, they are going to get. They can provide incentives to professional employees- Usually paying good to the skilled professional can be an alternative as the skilled employees are harder to find. They can also use some combination of financial and non-financial incentives. The most used rewards to motivate employees were- employee recognition, training programs, cash rewards, special events and various others.
These are some suggestions to workout the incentive