Open Source Strategy in Logistics 2015_Henrik Hankedvz-d-nl-log-conference.pdf
#Ppmahr18 lets talk transformation reward strategies - ies peter reilly
1. The march of the market: pay
determination in a changing context
Peter Reilly, Principal Associate, IES
For further information contact:
peter.reilly@employment-studies.co.uk
4. Changing context (3)
Reduced collectivism
A litigious society
Low inflation
Slow economic growth
Public sector austerity
Tight labour market
New working (contractual) arrangements
Focus on the gender pay gap
5. A cultural shift in people management
Activity Outcomes
Mediocrity Excellence
Post Person
Central Local
Control Flexibility
Collective Individual
Internal External
11. Declining importance of formal JE?
The use of market rates
(underpinned by job evaluation) to
determine pay “appears to have fallen
sharply”. “The organisation’s ability to
pay is the most important factor”
CIPD Survey on Reward Management 2014/15
But a lot of sectoral variation:
Public sector services 50% more likely to use JE than others
Third sector dominated by the ability to pay
Private sector equally likely to use market with/without JE
12. The push towards market pay
Internal
equity
External
equity
Relative
internal
value
External
value
13. The push towards market pay/lighter JE
Internal
equity
External
equity
Relative
internal
value
External
value
Formal
JE
schemes
Looser
job
levelling
14. Perceived weaknesses of JE
Some systems complex to develop and costly/time
consuming to implement/maintain
Can appear to be scientific and objective when it is
judgmental
Can lead to slow, inflexible responses to
recruitment/retention/recognition difficulties
Potentially unresponsive in fast changing situations
JE factors do not accord with what is really valued by
the organisation
Fits some jobs better than others: poor for specialists?
Internal valuation not external – does not reflect the
market
15. Weaknesses of JE (2)
Can be used to reinforce existing hierarchies
Less useful where role flexibility is prized
Process based on only a superficial
understanding of jobs under review
Conventionally does not address how job is done
Theoretically job not incumbent focused
but overly influenced by job holder in practice
Can produce gaming of system especially where
close connection between £s and points
Challenge of meeting demand for transparency
but wish to preserve sanctity of process
18. Balancing priorities!
External equity Internal equityPay
system
Economic logic Psychological logic
● market alignment
● supply and demand
● rate for the job
● open/transparent
● felt fair
● justifiable
19. A job evaluation fightback?
Prominence of
equal pay
Link to talent
and career
management
Use as an
OD tool
Leadership
development
programmes
Facilitate a
merger
(other integration)
To facilitate
reward
management
20. External market pricing issues
How do you pitch ‘core’ workforce against
external market:
• who are the comparators – sector, size…?
• which jobs used?
• which market positioning sought?
• which geographies apply (local, regional, national,
international)?
How homogeneous/heterogeneous a workforce?
Do specialists (or other segments) differ?
21. External market pricing issues, cont.
What matching process is used?
• Public data or bespoke?
• Job description or title based?
Comprehensive or limited remuneration data?
• Base pay, total pay and benefits?
• Average pay and structures?
How reliable is the market data quality?
Is there a proper market to analyse?
Can you defend it publicly?
22. ‘Mimetic wage’ systems - simplistic pay
matching as a defensive retention strategy
Risks with market based pay systems
24. ‘Mimetic wage’ systems - simplistic pay
matching as a defensive retention strategy
Ignoring internal cultural requirements?
Risks with market based pay systems
25. Internal culture issues?
Does the culture demand fairness?
How much difference can be tolerated?
And on what basis are differences justified?
What is the relative importance of:
• procedural justice?
• distributive justice?
How transparent does the pay system have
to be?
Is there a bias against complexity?
26. ‘Mimetic wage’ systems - simplistic pay matching as a
defensive retention strategy
Ignoring internal cultural requirements?
‘Self-serving bias’ in data collection and
analysis
Complaints against JE in favour of market
pay based on ‘tautological arguments’
Liable to import gender biases from the
market
Risks with market based pay systems
27. Avoid false scientism in market benchmarking & JE
Focus on business goals being met
Ensure your JE & pay systems meet that requirement
Balance internal & external equity in wage setting
Be market ‘informed’ rather than market ‘driven’
Use RRPs as short term measure whilst more helpful
interventions (career, learning) bear fruit
In JE management balance commitment to the core
system with process flexibility
Use JE in a ‘supportive way’ (where broad banding)
Evaluate the effectiveness of your policies
Solutions
28. Testing reward effectiveness
A six step model:
1. Set goals
2. Identify evaluation criteria
3. Select an evaluation method
4. Collect and analyse data
5. Interpret findings
6. Develop and implement improvements
Scott, McMullen and Sperling, 2006
• Organisational impact?
• Effectiveness?
• Efficiency?
• Unique, hard to imitate?
30% of workplaces use collective bargaining
30% of workplaces use personal contracts
30% of workplaces use collective bargaining
30% of workplaces use personal contracts
30% of workplaces use collective bargaining in 98 down from 60% in 1984
30% of workplaces use personal contracts
Say what graph shows and where it comes from (subscriber survey)
Top items is r/r – big change from last year’s survey when ee engagement was top, and r/r was much further down
Ee engagement still there, but keeping labour costs in check comes in a close third
So what does it all mean?
The rising concerns over recruitment and retention are linked to the apparent change in the economic outlook – poss that upturn in activity is coming.
And the worries about employee engagement could reflect the way in which the long recession, and its effect on incomes, has had an impact on staff motivation.
The continued focus on costs perhaps presents a conundrum, since it is not always easy to reconcile this with the top two concerns.
But maybe there are ways of squaring the circle, by being inventive…
Vertical alignment as in job families rather than horizontal found in JE based remuneration
Analytical matching involves analysing and describing jobs in terms of a set of job
evaluation factors, as in a conventional point factor scheme. There is often a simple job
description, often called a job or role profile to distinguish it from a conventional job description, that simply sets out the purpose and main tasks carried out by the jobholder. A grade or level structure is developed consisting of a sequence or hierarchy of grades or levels that have been defined analytically with the same set of factors used in the job profiles. The job profiles are then compared factor by factor with the range of grade or level profiles to establish which grade provides the best match and thus grade the job. So jobs are slotted into the grade with the closest matching description, rather than going through any detailed points scoring process.
Levelling is a method of job evaluation that focuses on defining the levels of work in an
organization and slotting jobs into those levels. It can simply be an alternative term for an
analytical job matching or job classification scheme that allocates jobs into a hierarchy of
grades by matching job definitions with the most relevant of the grade definitions. The
difference is that in a proper levelling scheme the emphasis is on defining and describing
how the organization is structured as a basis for considering the relative value of jobs,
rather than on simply measuring relative worth. The work levels technique is concerned
with the design of an organization, how work is structured in a hierarchy and the career
paths available. It aims to fuse job evaluation with organisational development and talent
management considerations. This can extend its purpose well beyond that of a traditional
job evaluation programme.
OD = sensible organisation design (not too many layers, sensible spans of control)
leadership development programme = linked to key competencies.
Talent = framework for career development and to facilitate mobility
Reward management – changes to pay systems, pay benchmarking
E-Reward JE survey 2007
Really arguments for grading except JE delivers on the equality point.
Schmidt and Dworschak (2006), for example, coined the term ‘mimetic wages’ to caricature the way many private sector firms will seek only to mimic or match the wages of competitors without systematic analysis and primarily as a defensive retention strategy.
Babcock, Xianghong and Lowenstein (1996) highlight the dangers with pay
surveys, of inaccurate matching of jobs and that the choice of pay comparators can carry the risk of ‘self -serving bias’ especially in formal negotiations over pay and conditions.
Brown Bevan and Rickcard (2017)
And for those saying they have abandoned ‘inflexible’ job evaluation methods in favour of ‘external market’ pay determination, the whole question of how surveys compare and measure jobs in order to gather their pay level data
, other than simple alignment of job titles , makes this a somewhat tautological argument.
Schmidt and Dworschak (2006), for example, coined the term ‘mimetic wages’ to caricature the way many private sector firms will seek only to mimic or match the wages of competitors without systematic analysis and primarily as a defensive retention strategy.
Babcock, Xianghong and Lowenstein (1996) highlight the dangers with pay
surveys, of inaccurate matching of jobs and that the choice of pay comparators can carry the risk of ‘self -serving bias’ especially in formal negotiations over pay and conditions.
Brown Bevan and Rickcard (2017)
And for those saying they have abandoned ‘inflexible’ job evaluation methods in favour of ‘external market’ pay determination, the whole question of how surveys compare and measure jobs in order to gather their pay level data
, other than simple alignment of job titles , makes this a somewhat tautological argument.
Schmidt and Dworschak (2006), for example, coined the term ‘mimetic wages’ to caricature the way many private sector firms will seek only to mimic or match the wages of competitors without systematic analysis and primarily as a defensive retention strategy.
Babcock, Xianghong and Lowenstein (1996) highlight the dangers with pay
surveys, of inaccurate matching of jobs and that the choice of pay comparators can carry the risk of ‘self -serving bias’ especially in formal negotiations over pay and conditions.
Brown Bevan and Rickard (2017)
And for those saying they have abandoned ‘inflexible’ job evaluation methods in favour of ‘external market’ pay determination, the whole question of how surveys compare and measure jobs in order to gather their pay level data , other than simple alignment of job titles , makes this a somewhat tautological argument.