Saturday, April 6, 2013

Concept and Definition of "Reward Management" and "Scanlon Plan"


Concept and Definition of Reward Management
Tags; Reward Management | Human Resource Management | HRM | Motivational Theory | Scanlon Plan
Reward management is about the formulation and implementation of strategies and policies that aim to reward people fairly, equitably and consistently in accordance with which help organizations to improve performance and achieve their objectives.
This top design, implementation, maintenance, communication and evolution of reward processes with the value of the organization.
Reward management therefore, involves the analysis and effective control of employee remuneration and covers salary and all benefits. Much of the literatures are available to evaluate the concept of reward management.
The early discussions to reward management arrived in the early 1970s, with Scanlon Plan. Joseph Scanlon laid down a model for paying reward to employees and workers of the organisation,
About Scanlon Plan
Sir Joseph Scanlon’ formulated the plan for reward for the employees, popularly known as Scanlon plan is a model for business organization. This type of organizational structure is a gain sharing program, and seeks to involve employees more directly in the processes of corporate decision-making in order to benefit from suggestions and contributions from employees. Employees are rewarded for their input and assistance through profit sharing plans, which disperse some portion of the economic benefits generated by a more engaged workforce to the members of that workforce. These plans work best in environments where employees have relatively stable, long-term attachments to a single corporation.
In sum, The Scanlon Plan (SP) is a systematic approach to enhancing organizational effectiveness through a formal participation program and a financial bonus. It has met with varying degrees of success. The present study is an investigation of factors that account for this variation in success. SP success was found to be positively related to the average level of participation in decision making reported by employees, to the number of years a company had had an SP, managerial attitudes, chief executive officer's attitudes, and expected level of SP success; but not related to company size.
Pay is a key element in the management of people. The importance of pay begins with pay administration that deals accurately and swiftly with payroll-related matters. Much of the information used by pay administrators is shared with the human resource function. Pay evaluation systems also impinge on human resource territory. Free market organizations are particularly concerned with performance-related pay as a motivating factor but this trend appears to be ideological rather than rational since practical PRP schemes that deliver the results intended are extremely difficult to construct. Current evidence shows that performance pay is likely to demotivate more people than it motivates.
Reward Management
(according to http://www.cornwell.co.uk)
Reward management involves the analysis and effective control of employee remuneration and covers salary and all benefits. It assesses the nature and extent of rewards and the way they are delivered as well as considering their effect on both the organisation and staff.
Cornwell consultants take a holistic approach to reward management, treating every element of reward as an investment. We help assist organisations to review each part of reward to determine:
·         Its purpose
·         An organisation’s ‘return’ on investment
·         The most appropriate areas for investment
Working closely with IDS our consultants have access to one of the largest private and public sector salary databases in the country. This association and our involvement with strategic remuneration bodies helps our consultants identify and advise on emerging trends and practices in addition to establishing appropriate levels of pay at national and regional levels. We also conduct bespoke salary surveys focussing on specific sectors or roles.

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