Ford Motor Company is a multinational automaker located in the United States of America. The company has employed thousands of employees across the world. Any successful company must provide its employees with a good compensation and benefits plan to remain competitive. As a result, this study focused on researching the types of compensation and benefits plans Ford Motor Company offered to its employees. The study found out that the company offers compensation and benefits plans such as base pay, variable pay, insurance (health, risk, and life), holiday pay, maternity leave, vacation, and pension. This study also determined the advantages and disadvantages of the above compensation plans and benefits.
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It also recognizes that the company can get maximum output from the employees by ensuring they are always motivated and have the best working environment. One way of achieving that is through ensuring that employees have a good organizational compensation and benefits policy. A research on the company reveals that the management of the company has put up several organizational compensation and benefits for their employees.
Compensation and benefits definition Compensation refers to the rewards that an employee earns from a company in return for the labor services they provide to the enterprise (Martocchio, 2010). They include direct financial compensation such as salaries, wages, and bonuses, indirect financial compensation such as retirement plans, leaves, and education services, and lastly non-financial services such as advancement opportunities and career development (Martocchio, 2010). On the other hand, benefits refer to the compensations that a company gives to its employees on an optional basis in addition to their usual salaries. They include disability income protection (dental, vision, life, and health), sick leave, paid and non-paid vacation, and funding of education among others (Martocchio, 2010). A study on Ford Motor Company revealed that it has been providing its employees with several compensation and benefits plans over the years. The management of Ford Motor Company has been performing several reviews on
carefully planned out and considered, the total closure or failure of the organization could be at hand in the near future. In our modern age, employers know that salary is not the only factor that should be considered and that salary alone will not lead to better or more highly profitable workers alone. This is why compensation planning is important and why pay should have some connection between performance and compensation. This is why the human resources department should consider many monetary and non-monetary factors when considering how to properly compensate and motivate employees (Dessler, 2013).
Capstone Q1-Industry Benefits Comparison: As stated above, the method used for the industry employee benefits package comparison was a comparative analysis. To organize the data it was broken into themes and coded. Presented here are the five resulting tables, including a short data analysis for each. In addition to the listed tables, a scatter plot figure was added for visual representation of the assigned values totals for each company, including every category; however total scores will be announced later.
This report examines 3 different compensation systems that our company can develop and enforce within our company for our employees. Compensation is the most important and rewarding factor for employees, so a thorough and thoughtful approach should be taken as we think about changing the way in which this company rewards it's employees for the work they do for us each and every day.
The right compensation program will depend on the organization’s business strategy and goals. To achieve these, an organization must recruit and select the best possible employees. To attract such employees, there must be an attractive compensation plan. Competitors will be offering different payment options, this may be based on pay rate or special perks, and a company’s stock options. Organizations must be aggressive yet reasonable to compete with competitors. Retaining and encouraging employees to perform at their best may be achieved through an immediate incentive award
This report reviews three different compensation strategies PepsiCo can develop and implement within all of our PepsiCo. Brands and businesses for our employees. Compensation is one of the most important and rewarding factors for our employees based on our organizational health survey conducted in 2011, so a thoughtful and thorough approach should be taken as we think about
The aim of this paper is to examine the compensation challenges within Owens & Minor and create a compensation strategy that will benefit not only the company, but the employee.
General Motors is the biggest supplier of automobiles the United States and the second largest publicly owned company in the world. General Motors has been overwhelmed in recent years with declining profits and increasing costs. "General Motors product mix in the United States, heavily weighted toward trucks, pickups, and SUVs, is on the wrong side of gas prices. It is up against a formidable and sometimes militant union whose ability to accept the full reality of General Motors problems is not assured and gravely, it is burdened by health costs, which it supplies for a population bigger than Detroit's that is, for a total of 1.1 million employees, retirees, and dependents" (Loomis, 2006). Employees and the Union are reluctant to change their rewards benefit packages. General Motors is looking for a new and better way to change the company's total rewards packages so the company can be profitability and keep employee moral high in order to produce a quality product. These changes need to be in order with keeping the union happy while being financially beneficial.
This report reviews three different compensation strategies PepsiCo can develop and implement within all of our PepsiCo. Brands and businesses for our employees. Compensation is one of the most important and rewarding factors for our employees based on our organizational health survey conducted in 2011, so a thoughtful and thorough approach should be taken as we
Employee benefits are a key aspect of an organization’s total compensation package (Martocchio, 2010). An employer’s total compensation package is defined by Martocchio (2010), as “both the monetary and nonmonetary rewards” offered by an organization (p. 7). The most visible aspect of any total compensation package, is core compensation (Martocchio,
A well-articulated compensation philosophy drives organizational success by aligning pay and other rewards with business strategy. It provides the foundation for plan design and administration and anchors current and future plans to the company's culture and values (Kaplan, 2006, p.32). Recognizing and rewarding achievement is the cornerstone of the company A’s compensation philosophy. The mission of the company is to attract, select, place and promote all individuals based on their qualifications. The company believes that performance-based compensation helps attract, develop and retain talented professionals. In addition to base pay which based upon local market conditions and targeted to be above market, the company provides the following types of potential compensation to reward performance:
Ford believed that by paying people more, he would enable Ford employees to afford the cars they were producing and be good for the economy. This new wage plan was offered to men over the age of 22 who had worked for Ford for at least 6 months, and whose lifestyles were approved by Ford’s Sociological Department (150 investigators and support staff who maintained “employee standards”). Another defining characteristic of Ford Motor Company is Henry Ford’s adamant opposition to labor unions. Ford Motor Company was the last Detroit automobile company to sign a contract with the United Auto Workers union, having done so in June of 1941.
The success of companies in today's market place is a process that involves the way business practitioners manage its workers and the financial resources and structures. The management of employees, structures, and financial resources includes the development and establishment of effective compensation strategy. Actually, the lack of a sound compensation system has negative impacts on the company's ability to recruit and retain competent and best-qualified employees. Consequently, compensating workers represents an important practice of a company's human resource management (Martocchio, 2013). Wal-Mart is not only a cultural but also a business phenomenon that operates in a competitive environment that is very unique. The company has grown steadily since its inception to an extent that it has become the number one ranked firm on Fortune 500 for four consecutive years. The success of the company is attributed to sound business practices and strategies throughout the years. Currently, the firm has over 1.3 million employees in America, making it the largest employer in the United States. In addition to being the biggest corporation worldwide, Wal-Mart's ability to attract and retain qualified employees is based on its compensation strategy.
Chapter conclusion: Benefits for employees are very important for companies. Benefits for employees include various insurance plans, paid vacation days, paid sick leave, paid days off, etc. Different companies need to establish different benefit plans based on their company conditions. In brief, benefit in one of the bridge between employers and employees.
The propose compensation and benefit system plan is about financial as well as non-financial benefit. Having a combination of financial and non-financial benefits is needed to motivate and to attract and retain employees for Holland Enterprise to accomplish its goals as a company. It is noteworthy to state that this to be operational is that employee need to able to see that the non-financial benefits are as respectively important as the financial benefits to the job positions they hold.
The main issue in case study 4-7 focuses on what the Japan company Nippon Cash Machines and their recent US merger National Office Machines should do to their Japanese sales force who has always followed a salary based payment plan and lifetime job security because they are quickly loosing market share in a highly competitive market. Therefore, the main statement for the case is as follows: