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Changing the Compensation Strategy

The compensation strategy and compensation policy are very important policies for the organization. Their correct design and proper implementation lead to the cost efficient organization. The compensation strategy can help to manage the personnel expenses costs of the organization and the organization with the best compensation strategy can lead the market, including the job market.

The environment around the organization gets more competitive and the organization has to align the compensation strategy with the current needs. The organization has to implement the high performance corporate culture and the correct compensation strategy is one of the main components. The efficient compensation strategy can navigate the employees to increase their own personal performance and the whole organization can hugely benefit from the effort put into the correct setting of the compensation strategy.

The compensation strategy has a huge financial impact on the organization. In case, the organization has a certainty about the correct setting, the investments in the human capital are efficient and the management of the organization trusts to the HRM Function.

The change of the compensation strategy is very difficult as the population in the organization can hugely benefit from the current compensation strategy and the life of the employees and managers can be very comfortable. The new compensation strategy focused on the high performance corporate culture can change this very quickly and the managers and employees can be very resistant to the implementation of the changes in the compensation scheme of the organization. Many employees can leave, but the organization has to pay the cost of the change.

The change of the compensation strategy has to use three main sources of the information:

• employee and manager preferences
• business strategy
• market practice and trends

The employees and managers are very important factor in changing the compensation strategy. They know the current status in the organization and they can pretty easily identify the points in the compensation strategy, which will support the implementation of the high performance corporate culture.

The business strategy sets the limits for the compensation strategy. It has to used as a limit for the employee and manager preferences as they can become very creative in their ideas.

The market practice has to be used to know what the job market expects and the organization has to follow it in some areas, but the organization has to find the possibility to differ itself from the other organizations on the job market.