Variable Pay Plans: Using Incentives, Recognition and Bonuses to Save Money and Improve Performance 
90 percent of companies have shifted more of their spending to variable pay.
Why? Simply put, linking what employees are paid to how they perform improves an organization’s performance.
Yet, while the majority of companies have hopped on the variable pay bandwagon, many still struggle to get it right.
How do you construct incentives and other compensation plans in a way that improves execution, measurable performance and creates the right sense of partnership with employees? What kind of metrics and measures should be considered and how are they balanced between company, department and individual employee performance results?
Learning Objectives
This interactive webinar explores:
- What variable pay is and how to define it as part of your total rewards package
- Key components of performance based and incentive pay systems
- First steps to take (and systems you should have in place) before moving to a performance based reward system
- Best methods to communicate changes to your pay plan
- What to include in your performance measurement system
- Roles and responsibilities of supervisors in a value-based, variable pay system
- Most expensive mistakes companies make when changing pay systems
- How to apply performance pay principles to every job on your payroll
- Tips for handling push-back from employees
Product ID: 17335
Bonus Material
With your registration you get the top-selling guide, Salary Structures: How to Choose, Develop, and Administer a Salary Structure – a $149 value – absolutely FREE!
This comprehensive 32 page report, delves into:
- Different Salary Structure Designs
- Traditional Salary Structures
- Broadband Structures
- Market-Based Salary Structures
- Step Salary Structures
This essential guide also gives you all the details you and your managers need to:
- Develop A Salary Structure
- Research Market Data For Benchmarked Jobs
- Decide Whether A Job Fits With A Benchmarked Job
- Find The Value Of A New Position Or One That Cannot Be Benchmarked
- Administrate A Salary Structure
Learn How to Design a Variable Pay Plan that Saves Money and Improves Performance!
Order my recording nowFaculty
Jerry L. McAdams, CCP
Author, Consultant
Jerry McAdams was the National Practice Leader for Rewards and Recognition for Watson Wyatt Worldwide (now Wallis Towers Watson). He continues to be a thought leader for reward systems for WorldatWork, authoring the original certification course on variable compensation. He was the co-director of the non-profit Consortium for Alternative Reward Strategy Research (CARS). He consults on organizational development, the effective alignment of strategic objectives and compensation, reward and recognition plans.
Continuing Education Units
HRCI – Receive 1.25 recertification credit hours toward PHR and SPHR recertification through the Human Resource Certification Institute (HRCI). For more information about certification or recertification, please visit the HRCI homepage at www.hrci.org.
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