A Handbook of Human Resource Management Practice

Developments in pension provision As the CIPD (2003b) comments: The last decade has seen a significant change in the nature of o ...

● Location allowances– London and large town allowances may be paid because of housing and other cost-of-living differentials. A ...

Managing reward systems Managing reward systems is a complex and demanding business. This chapter deals with the subject in seve ...

master budget. The budget is based on forecast levels of activity which determine the number of people required. The annual payr ...

EVALUATING THE REWARD SYSTEM The reward system should be audited regularly to assess its effectiveness, the extent to which it i ...

or accelerate increases if compa-ratios are too high or too low compared with the policy level. This process is sometimes called ...

visible aspects of reward management (the other is job grading) and are an important means of implementing the organization’s re ...

awards made by respondents to the CIPD 2003 performance management survey (Armstrong and Baron, 2004) was 3.3 per cent. Individu ...

high to be fully reliable and may have been inflated by those who treat service-related increments, which do not depend on ratin ...

they need guidelines on typical rates of progression in relation to performance, skill or competence, and specific guidance on w ...

REWARD PROCEDURES Reward management procedures are required to achieve and monitor the implemen- tation of reward management pol ...

Promotion increases Promotion increases should be meaningful, say 10 per cent or more. They should not normally take the promote ...

Devolving more authority to line managers may in principle be highly desirable but managers must be briefed thoroughly on their ...

force. Monitoring can be relaxed as managers prove that they are capable of making good pay decisions. COMMUNICATING TO EMPLOYEE ...

What to communicate to individual employees Individual employees should know and understand: ● their job gradeand how it has bee ...

Employee relations EMPLOYEE RELATIONS DEFINED Employee relations consist of all those areas of human resource management that in ...

mainly conducted on a day-to-day informal basis by line managers and team leaders; without the framework of employment and emplo ...

The framework of employee relations The purpose of this chapter is to provide a review of the complex subject of employee relati ...

description of the various parties to industrial relations and the institutions, agencies and officers involved. THE ELEMENTS OF ...

relations, as propounded by Dunlop (1958), states that the role of the system is to produce the regulations and procedural rules ...