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human resource management, with a focus on about HR and what that would mean as a
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acquiring and onboarding talent, managing career. >> Or maybe you're a career refresher,
employee performance and rewarding you've been in HR for a while, but you're
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employees. These are core areas that any wondering whether your thinking is up to
people manager needs to know, even if he or date, you want to check out the current
SEMANA 1 – Pay determination she is not in a human resources field. thinking on HR issues from one of the top
 >> Throughout the specialization, we present universities in this field.
best practices and practical tips that are  >> No matter if you fit one of these profiles or
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informed by the best scholarship and practical another one that we didn't describe, we know
learnings in the field. When you complete the that you will benefit greatly from
Video 1: RRHH para la especialización de specialization, you'll have a deeper understanding what we call the people
Manager de personas understanding of what works in the workplace manager value proposition. A value
 Welcome to our four course specialization in including a toolkit of best practices for hiring, proposition is simply a statement of benefits,
Human Resource management, HR for People managing, and rewarding employees. We've so the people manager value proposition
Managers. I'm John Budd. >> And I'm Larry designed the specialization with different kind captures the benefits we will deliver to you
Bourgerie. >> I'm Amy Falink. >> And I'm Alan of learners in mind. Maybe you're an through this specialization. And it also
Benson. We're all faculty at the University of accidental supervisor, you've been promoted captures the benefits that you will bring to
Minnesota's Carlson School of Management's to a manager position based on your job your organization and to your career after
Center for Human Resources and Labor performance as an engineer, an accountant, a completing this specialization. >> The people
Studies. You may associate Minnesota with nurse or many other things. This means you manager value proposition provides a guide to
cold winters, but in the field of human are now responsible for managing the key HR related task of effective people
resources people associate Minnesota with subordinates, lacking HR and people managers and HR professionals, and therefore
thought, leadership and educational management training, you'll want to better provides a roadmap for this specialization.
excellence. >> The Center for Human know how to manage your staff's job  Managers must know how to take
Resources and Labor Studies has been a performance. >> Maybe you are the HR person organizational objectives and determine what
leading center of research and teaching in the by default, you don't have any formal HR people need to accomplish, and then
field of human resources, what we call HR, for training but you're seen as a people person, understand how to devise and implement a
over 70 years. We have one of the very best and therefore are asked to take on human strategy for leading and motivating employees
Masters Programs in the field, and we even resources responsibilities, perhaps as a small to fulfill those goals. But this doesn't occur in a
have our own library dedicated to providing business grows. You want to gain confidence vacuum, it's influenced by organizational
information on human resources, let's go in managing a small human resources function values, external factors like the legal
check it out. [MUSIC] and understand your key responsibilities and environment, and maybe even labor unions.
 >> Among us we have over 50 years of options. >> Maybe you're a career explorer,  So it's this part of the people manager value
teaching in the human resource field, and we you have an interest in psychology or other proposition that I'll cover in the first course. >>
are very excited to be team teaching the people oriented issues. Maybe someone has Finding and hiring the right people is often
specialisation course Human Resource told you you'd make a good HR person or that cited as the number one concern of businesses
Management, HR for People Managers. This you can make more money in HR than in today, it seems we are all competing for the
specialization provides a robust introduction psychology, but you don't know what it means best and brightest workers. As you will see in
our time together, in the second course, a manager value proposition is critical to the we're having trouble deciding whether we're
critical component of the people manager success of any people manager or HR getting the most out of our incentive plans. So I
value proposition is to hire talented people professional. There's a saying in HR, people work with these companies, I analyze their
who enable the organization to achieve its join organizations but they quit their personnel data. And then I come up with ideas
strategic goals. At the outset of the course, we managers. >> We are here to help you be a of how they can improve, where they can focus
will explore the importance of linking manager that employees want to join not quit. their efforts and their resources, and so on. And
recruitment goals with overall company >> We're excited to bring to you this then this goes on to inform the research that I
strategy, we then look at a number of options Minnesota expertise on human resources not do and my teaching.
to recruit and select employees, both matter what your goals are or where you are  So what kind of research have I done? So I've
effectively, and legally. located. >> If you've only signed up for one done research on incentives, on compensation,
 Throughout the course, we will examine course that's great too, we hope this on bargaining, and I've done that in a wide
current issues in talent acquisition, such as introduction to the specialization gives you a variety of settings. I've done it for police, for
how companies are now leveraging social better appreciation for the full range of firefighters, business-to-business salespeople,
media and hiring analytics to ensure better material covered in these classes, and that manufacturing workers, retail and salespeople
quality hires. >> Once you have hired good you're tempted to sign up for the entire and others. So after I do research with
employees, the next step that successful specialization. >> We can't wait to see you in companies, kind of the deal is that we help
people managers take is to develop the full our courses. them out with whatever issue they're coming
potential of their employees. Performance across. Then I go to conferences, lots and lots
management is a process that helps managers Video 2: Acerca de Alan Benson, el instructor and lots of conferences. And I publish my results
achieved the goal of getting the best from  Welcome to Managing Employee in academic journals, and sometimes
their employees. In the performance Compensation. So first, a little bit about me. My newspapers pick it up like the Wall Street
management course we'll discuss the skills, name is Alan Benson and I'm an assistant Journal, or the LA Times, or Washington Post, or
and key processes you will need to develop professor here at the University of Minnesota's CBS News, or PBS, and some other places too.
your employees to attain department and Carlson School of Management. A little bit about So I don't have photos from all my conferences,
organizational goals. These skills will include my past. So I've been studying human resources but I do have photos from my very first one.
setting clear expectations, providing positive and compensation for a long time. I began that  Here's a picture from my very first conference at
and corrective feedback, and delivering an as an undergraduate at Cornell University Izmir in Turkey. I was invited to this conference
effective performance appraisal. >> Successful School of Industrial and Labor Relations. I did when I was a senior as an undergraduate at
people managers must also know how to that when I was at Oxford University, studying Cornell. And I was invited to speak about peak
reward employees. You begin from the abroad, working in economics. And then lastly, I level social dialog and negotiations over pay,
question what kind of person must we attract, did it when I got my PhD at the Massachusetts and other terms and conditions of employment.
retain and motivate in order to execute our Institute of Technology's Sloane School of  Reproduce el video desde :2:9 y sigue la
business strategy? We'll discuss how your Management. transcripción2:09
answer to that question can help you design  Reproduce el video desde ::34 y sigue la  And here you can see me as a panelist, and
salary structures, benefits, short term transcripción0:34 here's a picture of me giving my presentation.
incentives and long term incentives that are  So what do? So, companies come to me and  After I graduated from MIT, I started doing my
aligned to your business strategy. We'll also they say, we have this problem. We are having teaching in compensation and benefits,
help you evaluate benefits and ensure trouble identifying the star performers who negotiations, and organizational economics for
compliance. Mastering the steps in the people we're losing to our competitors or, perhaps,
undergraduate students, Master's students, If it's a for-profit organization, we might refer to  and then also on short term incentives. We
MBAs, executives, and for PhD students. this as the business strategy, and our business think of short term incentives as things such as
 So here's a picture from my very first class. This strategy will be very different if we're an commissions or bonuses, or other short term
is Communicating with Data, when I was a PhD organization that might rely on operational incentive rewards, where we try to link our key
candidate at MIT. efficiency and low costs. Versus one such as performance indicators to those immediate
 When I'm not researching or teaching, you maybe a tech company that relies more on methods of compensation.
could probably find me on the ultimate Frisbee developing new products and then bringing  Now going up from there, we also have Total
pitch. those to market. Direct Cash. Total direct cash includes base cash,
 Here's a picture of me on my very first ultimate  And depending on our organization, this will short term incentives, and long term incentives.
team over in Pembroke College at Oxford. And also depend on what it is that we need our Those long term incentives tie the long term
then since then I've been in a couple more people to accomplish. Do we need to serve performance of our organization to long term
teams at MIT and, of course, here in the Twin underserved populations? As a non-profit with rewards. Those are, examples of long term
Cities. And when I'm not playing ultimate that mission or our constituents as a incentives would be, for example, a stock
Frisbee, my wife and I like to do lots of other government organization. Or do we need our option.
outdoor things, such as hiking in Alberta and people to again bring innovative products to the  And then lastly we have Total Comp, or the Pay
Lake Superior up here in northern Minnesota. market or contain costs? These are all different Mix. Total comp includes the total value of all
Or scrambling in California, or cross country potential organizational goals. And these are the base cash, short term incentives, long term
skiing here in Minneapolis, going to define our HR strategy. That is how it is incentives, and the benefits and perks.
 or sailing, also upstate in Minnesota. that we achieve our goals through the employee  And the pay mix includes how we distribute the
 And lastly, I'd like to thank the wonderful performance. And that's going to vary a lot. And resources between them.
Coursera team here at the University of this is going to determine who it is that we want  And benefits and perks, for example, include
Minnesota. In particular, Dean Peterson, our to attract and retain. How it is that we manage things such as pension contributions, health
wonderful cameraman. And also, Amie Norden, their performance. And also how we motivate insurance and other benefits that the company
who helped with all the logistics of getting these and reward them. The kind of person who both elects to give and also those that are
videos up online. Thank you so much and I'll see would excel at a mission-driven organization required by law.
you in class. could be very different from the kind of person  Going up even further, we have the Employee
who would excel at an organization that is Value Proposition. These are all of the things
Clase 1 – Estrategia de compensación relying on keeping costs low, versus one that's that makes an employee want to come to work
trying to be very innovative. And we're going to in the morning. This is what attracts them. This
be focusing on this last part, that is how to is what motivates them. This is what retains
Video 1: Resumen del modelo de pago motivate and reward employees. them. They include not just compensation, but
 Welcome to the very first video or the very first  And so what are the tools that we have at our they also include all of the non-cash rewards, all
lesson of the very first module of our course on discretion? So we have lots of tools, and we're of the things that makes a job rewarding.
managing employee compensation. In this going to focus on particularly the compensation  We'll also go into the Strategic Messaging
video, we're going to be talking about the elements. So the first part is the Total Cash. We Model. So this model maps how you'd think
Overview of the Pay Model. include the total cash to mean both the base about compensation and the mix of that
 So first of all, let's start with the People cash or salary and also the short term compensation and then the messaging around
Manager Value Proposition. So this begins with incentives. The first module focuses on paid that compensation. So you can get the person
the organizational objectives, needs and values. determination that you want to attract, retain, and motivate.
 So let's start with money. So money, the first also has a relatively perhaps paternalistic view our employees to boost that value proposition
element of our strategic messaging model, of all of the things that the company offers to its and also to save money ourselves. We'll be
includes just the simply the size of the employees. talking more about the second part tax
compensation package. So that includes, so for  None of this means anything unless you're able efficiency throughout the Coursera course. For
example it includes whether you're allocating a to really drive the message home on what this now, I want to talk about some different ways
lot of resources to compensation. Perhaps pay mix means to your employees. You want to that organizations have tried to attract, retain,
paying the 25th percentile of the market for say, this is our pay mix, this is how we try to and motivate the person they need to execute
total compensation. Perhaps you're paying the compensate employees, this is the philosophy. their business strategy. Remember, so our
median or perhaps you're paying the 75th For example, we are an organization that tries methods for attracting, obtaining, and
percentile, that is you're trying to pay more than to prioritize pay for performance, and you have motivating those workers are going to depend
75% of your competitors. The second that messaging and then that's reflected in the on our strategic messaging model. We'll focus
consideration is the Mix. pay mix, it's reflected in the compensation on each of those in turn. So first of all, let's talk
 So depending on who you want to attract, retain expenditures. And so our strategic messaging about how companies compete on money. So
and motivate, you might shift the allocation of model and throughout what we'll be doing in here's an example of Costco. Costco is an
those compensation expenditures this Coursera course, will be to talk about not American retailer. Their compensation strategy
 to the right element of the pay mix to get that just the different elements of the pay mix and relies on them being an employer of choice.
kind of person who you want. So for example, kind of the technical nitty gritty about how to That is they want to pay a premium for workers
we might choose a pay mix that prioritizes base implement those, but also try to talk about, in order to get premium productivity. It's well
cash if we want someone to attract people who again, the money mix and the messaging. How known that Costco tends to pay their workers
are highly skilled. We might try to allocate a to tie those to who you want to attract to retain and have a compensation package, since it
larger portion of a pay mix to short term and to motivate and how this fits into the greatly exceed their competitors, both in terms
incentives and try to beat the market on short broader business strategy. Thanks, and I will see of their base cash and also their benefits.
term incentives if we want to attract people you next time when we talk about examples of  But we shouldn't really think about this as
who are confident in their abilities, and we also how we align our pay strategy to our business costing it as $1 increase in pay per hour as
want to motivate them to do their job duties strategy. directly mapping onto $1 in increased cost. That
well. is they also earn higher returns and if they have
 We might have a pay mix that prioritizes long- Video 2: De una estrategia de pago a un pago a very productive and loyal workforce, they
term incentives if we're trying to have an mixto have relatively less loss and leakage of their
organization that really focuses on the  Welcome. In this video, we're talking about inventory from their stores. And they also try to
alignment of an individual's activities to the examples of pay strategy. So first of all, what are get the most advantage of their premium pay
broader organization's goals. And that also the goals of our compensation plan? Once through a whole set of complementary
wants to have a pay mix that prioritizes again, our compensation plan needs to attract, practices. So for example, the Costco because
retention. Because tools such as stock options retain, and motivate the kind of person who we they pay more than the market, get a lot of
are particularly valuable for employees who stay need to successfully execute our business applications and that let's them be very, very
around the organization for long enough for strategy, and we also want to do it in a way selective in who they bring into the
those options to vest. that's tax efficient. That is we're spending all of organization. Once they've identified as
 Or you might have an organization that really this money on our compensation plan. We want somebody who they think would be a great fit
prioritizes the company culture and is more a to make sure that we're allocating our pay mix for Costco, they then invest intensively on
egalitarian when it comes to the pay mix but it in such a way that we can get as much money to training them. They are able to do this because
when someone joins Costco, Costco since it pays Institute. SAS Institute tends to unlike other long term incentives. And the way that they
above the market has very, very high retention software companies, they rely very little on would model their pay would be to again match
rates. And so by training them, they know that short term incentives and long term incentives, the market on base pay, but then to try to be
they can make those investments because and rather they focus on their benefits package very aggressive in their use of long term
they're going to stick around for a long time. and base pay. They see these very generous incentives. And Microsoft was one of the early
 After that, they also have intensive cross benefits as allowing their employees to focus tech firms that offered their employees very
training across the different units, that is again, directly on their work. They're pioneers in aggressive long term incentives. Their intentions
they can afford to use cross training because offering such benefits as on site daycare and a for offering very generous long term incentives
again they tend to stay. Then also they have to reduced work week. And when the company's was in part as a retention tool, that is individuals
use workteams in order so they can get a bigger founder was asked whether he sees this as who left the organization before their long term
sense of the organization and of Costco. And paternalistic, he sees us being really just being incentives. Their stock options vested would be
since they have people who are trained across good to the employees. So that their employees foregoing that income, and also it's conveyed a
 the different tasks of running a retail store. And can give their best to the company. since of shared destiny for early Microsoft. And
because they are intensively selected and they  Another example is competing on short term so if we look at these organizations altogether
are intensively trained, they make relatively incentives. Lincoln Electric is a manufacturing we should need to be reminded that these all
good candidates for management. And Costco is company headquartered in Cleveland. And their have different implications for their messaging.
also famous for our promoting from within. And base pay is relatively similar to their  Now one of Microsoft's competitors for
then we also have Walmart, so interestingly competitors, but interestingly their short term software engineers could be Netflix.
Costco competes directly in the same space as incentives can typically constitute two-thirds of  And so Netflix is an example of a company that
Walmart. Walmart's business strategy relies on their total compensation package. That is they tends to pay very high base pay. One of Netflix's
cutting costs and operational efficiency. And for very intensively use piece rates and they also informal mottos was that at an average
them, this also translates into keeping have a bonus program that rewards people for company the average employee gets an average
compensation costs low. And so their producing products of high quality, for being raise. But at Netflix the average employee gets a
complementary practices rely on operational highly reliable, for being innovative and so on. very generous severance package. That is they
efficiency in all aspects of the business including  And so Lincoln Electric because their total pay tend to pay far above their base pay to try and
their selection. They need to be able to select, package tends to be more than their attract and retain the very best workers. And
identify workers cheaply to train them at competitors, they can also be very selective on they're motivated just to keep their jobs.
relatively low cost. And also to standardize work who they bring in. And likewise for those who Another way to put this is that we might think
practices so that changes in their work force are do stay, they attract some of the most about short term incentives as being a method
minimally disruptive. Let's go on to competing productive workers in their industry. And they for attracting or obtaining and motivating the
on pay mix. So if we look at Costco, Costco also are successful in motivating them and very most productive workers. But in some
again, pays much higher base pay rates than retaining them as well. sense base pay can work the same way, that is
their competitors. And they also have very  Early days in Microsoft, Microsoft used to try to your incentive for staying at a company like
generous benefits and again this attracts is very target the market median in terms of base pay Netflix, is just the ability to continue to collect
helpful for them to attract the kind of person back when there were companies such as IBM that very high, very competitive base pay.
who they wanted to attract, entertain, and and Hewlett Packard and so on. And they're  Another thing that's interesting about Netflix's
motivate. competing for that talent and Microsoft was a compensation model is that they offer
 But that's not how all organizations compete. relatively young company. So they had a mix of employees a lot of flexibility. And how they
Another example is a company called SAS base pay, benefits, short term incentives, and
allocate that very, very high base pay across the short term incentives at Lincoln Electric then  A third reason has to do with staffing, training,
different benefit structure and incentives. they can at Lincoln Electric's competitors. and development.
 Interestingly at Netflix, Netflix allows it's  The message behind Microsoft is that we have a  For our workforce planning needs, we might
employees to purchase stock at a 50% discount. shared destiny, and we're also going to use long want to know what kind of tasks that we need
And also their options invest immediately term incentives as a retention tool. And then this job to do. For training purposes, we might
 and so what's interesting about Netflix is that lastly, Netflix. Netflix is an organization that need to know what kind of knowledge, skills,
Netflix is essentially allowing their employees to needs to adapt. Also imparts that same freedom and abilities we need to impart upon our
exercise a lot of freedom or responsibility over with responsibility onto it's workers when they employees. And for developmental purposes,
their paycheck. And likewise, freedom with choose the allocation of their compensation we might need to know what are some of the
responsibility is one of Netflix's informal models, practices criteria that we'd use as part of our job
that is Netflix as an organization that has to evaluation. A job description will give us all this
adapt with the times, adapt with business information.
practices. It's had to reinvent itself from a mail  So what's in a job description?
order DVD company to a company that offers Clase 2 – Trabajos de punto de referencia  So let's start off with an example of a
streaming video to now a company that also compensation and benefits manager. So what
develops content. do you see here? The first thing that you should
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 And as these business needs changes, so do see is, of course, the job title, the compensation
their workforce. And just as part of the deal of  Welcome back. In these set of videos we're and benefits manager. The second thing that
Netflix says that we have to have this flexibility. talking about how to benchmark pay, starting the job description will have is the job summary.
We're also going to allow our employees to with producing a job description. So when we're In this case, a compensation and benefits
have that same sort of flexibility in terms of the producing a job description, what we're talking manager plans, directs, and coordinates an
way they're compensated. about is performing a job analysis. You should employee's pay. You should think about a job
 So once again, I'm messaging for all these think job analysis, making a job description. summary as kind of like the Thanksgiving
different companies varies. Costco tries to Making a job description, performing a job description of what it is that you do when your
communicate that we want to be an employer analysis. So you might be thinking, well, if a job aunt asks, so sweetie, what is it that you do in
of choice, we want to be the first company that analysis is just producing a job description, why your job? And then, of course, you give your job
people to come to. Because we're an employer don't they just call it job descriptioning? Well, summary and they give you your yes dear.
that offers a very competitive total that just sounds ridiculous, right?  The second part is the job tasks or the job
compensation package. SAS is trying to message  So why write a job description? The first reason duties. This is essentially a description of the
its employees that they want relatively few is to benchmark pay. We need to figure out different, itemized description of the different
worries so you can focus on your work, and so what it is that we're trying to do or accomplish things that you do in your job. For example, for
they have a compensation package that with this job so that we can go off into the labor a compensation and benefits manager, one of
concentrates on benefits. Lincoln Electric market and find an accurate benchmark. their primary job duties might be to perform a
communicates that it wants to have a star  The second reason why we want to write a job job analysis, which, again, you should think is
culture, an organization where the very most description is for compliance purposes. You producing a job description.
productive people would want to come to work. might want to know, is this the kind of job  They also will potentially set an organization's
Those people who would be attracted to Lincoln where we need to pay them a wage and give pay structure, determine the competitive wage
Electric, because they can earn more on their them overtime? Or is this the kind of job where rates, and develop modified compensation
we can just give them a salary? plans, or select and manage the benefit
vendors. Again, you should think about these  And lastly, one of the things that you'll typically sure the job description is up to date. Well in
job tasks as the primary job duties of that see in a job description are the knowledge, this case, you might start from internal models.
occupation or that job that you're trying to fill. skills, and abilities. What job descriptions do you already have?
 And this is going to be also important for  In this case, a compensation and benefits  A second step would be to use external models,
compliance purposes, because depending on manager might be required to have knowledge like from a website, such as the Bureau of Labor
those job duties, this can determine whether or of the principles of compensation, knowledge of Statistics, or professional associations or trade
not you'd be allowed to, for example, pay this laws and legal codes and statutes related to associations. That'll tell you what a typical job
job salary. compensation, skill in using productivity description would look like.
 Next, we go on to requirements. Requirements, software, such as Excel, or ability to  Then lastly, you would check with the
in the case of our compensation and benefits communicate effectively. We typically think incumbent job holders and with management.
manager, might be bachelor's degree in human about knowledge as things that you can easily Take these documents and you would say, you
resources, management or related field. Or a train or teach people, things that you actually conduct an interview and you would say, which
Coursera certificate of course, or commensurate know. Skills is essentially being know how, and components of this job description look similar
experience. You might also say our preferred these different things that you're able to do. to what you do, which parts don't look similar?
qualifications. A master's in human resources or And then lastly, ability is these things such as Can you think of any job duties that you perform
related field, sufficient amount of experience, or physical strength or mathematical ability or that are very important to your job, but aren't
a professional certification. Again, we want to intuition. These things that are harder to teach. reflected in these documents? Now again, if
develop accurate descriptions of these job  There's also some other things that a job you're revising one of these documents, you
requirements so that we can communicate to description might have. One thing that it might might start from your internal model. But if
potential job seekers what kind of requirements have are reporting relationships. Who does this you're starting fresh, you might start perhaps
or educational qualifications or experience they job report to? How many people report to this from one of the external models, and then
need to apply for this job. It's also going to be job? And another thing that this might have is check that with your job holders, and then
important for compliance purposes because whether this job is exempt or not exempt under generate your internal document.
some of the requirements of the jobs might be the Fair Labor Standards Act. We'll talk about  So what laws should you consider? First of all, if
bonafide occupational qualifications, things that this more when we get to our Coursera module your paying this job a salary as opposed to wage
this job actually really truly needs to do in order on compliance. and overtime, or if you have job requirements
to perform the job well. And also it could be  Some job descriptions might also have a job that might effect women, minorities, or other
important, the educational requirements could code for internal or reporting purposes and also protected groups, then you don't want to miss
be important when we're determining whether pay range. Probably, the most typical thing is to our compliance video, which is also included as
we can pay this job a salary. say that pay is commensurate with skills and part of our HRN specialization.
 The next component that a typical job experience, but it could also give a range of
description will have is the job context. This, different possibilities. Video 2: Paga estándar
simply put, relates to what kind of environment  So how do you write a job description?  In this video we're talking about how to
the job is located in. So, for example, for a  So typically, when you're writing a job benchmark pay.
compensation and benefits manager, this might description, you might not be starting from  So first of all, what is benchmarking pay?
be the corporation headquarters over in St. scratch. You might be in an organization, for Benchmarking pay is the process of matching
Paul, our neighbors over in St. Paul, Minnesota. example, that is trying to write a job description our jobs to our external benchmark jobs for the
because operations are expanding, or because purposes of determining pay. You're probably
it's been three years and you just want to make already used to benchmarking lots of other
things. This is essentially the essence of we're going to talk about the different methods  So let's say that you've chosen your source of
comparison shopping. So for example, let's say that we can use for adjusting our benchmarks to data, whether it's a government website such as
that you're interested in buying a three our particular situation. So the first step is to the BLS, or trade association data or some
bedroom, three bathroom house. So what start off with our job description. Once again, external resource. Then you will have some list
would you do? Well, you want to find external the job description is going to tell us what jobs of jobs, and from that list of jobs, you have to
benchmarks that look very similar to that house we're looking for, all right. So this is kind of like decide which one of those appear to make the
that you're trying to buy. You might find some if you are in a scavenger hunt, this is the list of best benchmark. To do that, we don't
houses that are one bedroom one bathroom things that you're looking for. And where are necessarily want to use their job titles. We'll
houses. You might find some houses that are you going to search for it? Well, there's a lot of want to actually compare based on the
five bedroom five bathroom houses. But as you different resources. One of the government individual description, the job summary, the job
know, neither of these are very good websites such as the Bureau of Labor Statistics. tasks, the requirements, the context, the KSAs,
benchmarks. They don't look similar to the The Bureau of Labor Statistics goes through a lot which one of those descriptions look most
house that you're trying to buy. Rather the of effort to administer surveys all over the similar to the job we want to benchmark? It's
house that you are most interested in as using country for all sorts of jobs in all sorts of kind of like for the house, this is the house that
as benchmarks would be those three bedroom, industries. And they generate information has the same number of bedrooms and
three bathroom houses that look most similar to regarding the pay and forecasted future pay of bathrooms, the same square footage, and the
the one that you want to buy. And this is different jobs. Another option is to go through same neighborhood and so on.
essentially the essence of benchmarking. We different websites such as jobstar.org,  And so if we're going to our benchmark here,
want to find those same jobs based on our job salary.com or glassdoor.com. These websites we might have a list of jobs such as general
descriptions in the external market that looks also compile information about what people are managers, HR generalists, and bookkeeping
similar to the ones that we have at our paid in the labor market. Another source of data clerks. Might say well the general managers do a
organization. are trade association surveys. Trade association lot of duties, have a lot of job duties, that aren't
 So how do you benchmark pay? Well, the first surveys will typically cover their different consistent with what our compensation benefits
step is to start off with your job description. members. Their members would submit data on managers do.
Kind of like the house that we're trying to buy. how they pay their workers. The trade  Likewise, there's a lot of things that are
 The second step is matching our external association will compile these and disseminate compensation benefit managers do, that our
benchmarks. This is our process of going off into this information back to their members. general managers do not do. For bookkeeping
the market and figuring out what are some of  So let's take a look at what one example looks clerks, it might look like not only do our
the comparable job descriptions out there and like. This is an example of Compensation and compensation benefits managers perform
how much do those houses cost? How much did Benefits Managers from the Bureau of Labor different tasks, but they also have certain
they recently sell for? Or in the case of the labor Statistics. As you can see, the Bureau of Labor requirements. Our job, for example, might
market, for example, we're looking for an Statistics will tell you, give you a summary of the require more education than the typical
administrative assistance, we go off into the job, the description of what they do, the work bookkeeping clerk. And so from this
labor market, find a similar job description, and environment, how you become one, the pay, information, it looks like our job description is
figure out how much administrative assistants the job outlook, some of the occupations, and most similar to our benchmark job description
are being paid. Step three is to make more information. for HR Generalist.
adjustments. Typically when your benchmarking  This information can be used in the basis of  But, of course, this is all relative, you might be
something, whether its a house or a job, you're creating a job description and also for looking at a different resource, and you might
not going to find the perfect benchmark. And so benchmarking pay. have a different list of potentially
benchmarkable jobs. So, for example, you might data a lot, because this is talking about above our benchmark. That'll bring us to
have another resource that has HR Generalists, compensation benefits manager specifically. $112,800. We also need to have a minimum,
Compensation Specialists, and Payroll Clerks. You might also put a little bit of extra weight on, and so we might also take our benchmark and
Well, in this case, if you're looking at the job for example, a local survey, because it's specific subtract 20% to give us kind of our entry-level
description between them, you might find the to our geography, or the Salary.com data compensation for our compensation benefits
most similarities among the Compensation because we like their job description. managers. In that case, that's a benchmark
Specialists. So let's go back to the example of  And so now that we have the weights, we want minus 20% will be $75,200. So here we
the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The Bureau of to calculated a weighted mean. So to calculate essentially our basic building block for building a
Labor Statistics has hundreds of different the weighted mean in this case, 94,000 dollars salary structure. We'll have our benchmark
occupations with these different benchmarks. per year, what we would do is we would take data, which will give us $94,000, plus or minus,
And again, as I mentioned, one of the things the median pay, we would multiply that by the are some value to give us our pay range.
that they'll have is compensation data. Let's weights that we chose, and we would add those  So, what if you can't find a good benchmark.
zoom in on the job summery there. As you can all up together. So for example if we took the Well, that's why it will be important to
see in 2012, it says the median pay for this job median paid times the weight, we'll generate understand surveys in greater details in how the
was 95,250 per year. That means that half of this third column here. We'll add those all up labor market works, so we can figure out how to
compensation benefits managers were making together and we get $658,000 and $1 and then adjust our pay. All right, see you next time.
more than that number, half of them were we'll add up the weight, and we'll get 7. We'll
making less than that number. So what do we take that $658,000 and divide it by 7. And that Video 3: Encuestas y mercado laboral
want to do with that information? We want to will give us $94,000. That's our weighted mean.  All right, in this video we're talking about
take that $95,250 and we can put it in our That's our mean where we put extra emphasis, surveys and labor markets. So first of all what's
spreadsheet. So we have our job title that we're we give an extra bump to the benchmarks that a compensation survey? A compensation survey
benchmarking against, Compensation and we thought were best. is a survey designed to show how comparable
Benefits Managers. We have the source of that  So what do you do with that number? What do employers pay for comparable jobs.
data, and we have the median pay. And since you do with that weighted mean? Well, that's  So what is that mean? Or what would a day
the Bureau of Labor Statistics isn't the only our benchmark number. What would we do for ideal survey look? With ideal survey it would
resource that we want to use, we can also do matching the market? That means that our job's have comparable benchmarks. That means that
the same thing with many other resources. We middle pay should be the middle of our they would have the same industry and the
might have a local survey with of HR managers benchmark's pay. So what does that look like? same geography and the same jobs. That's
that will tell us they make about $90,000 a year.  So eventually this is going to be used to create because, even if you're trying to for example
We'll have benefit managers from Salary.com, it our salary structure. So, for example, for pay a compensation of benefits manager, a
says that they make, $95,491 per year. administrative salaries, we'll have compensation certain to try benchmark their pay, their pay
Professional Association data, there's benefits managers, and the midpoint of our might be different in finance versus
Salary.com data for other jobs, and so on. compensation managers should be the same as construction, versus small stores, or they might
 This isn't to say that all survey data is created the midpoint for our benchmark data. So that's be different in big cities versus small cities.
equally. Remember, we want benchmarks that where it is, $94,000.  The ideals at survey would also have the right
are matched very well in job duties. That match  From there, we're also going to want a range. information. They'll be matched in the
very well in geographies, and other kind of ways  So for example, if we want to have some percentiles that you're interested in. So for
that our data can be comparable. So that being flexibility, you might say that the most that we'll example, if you're interested in paying the
said, we might like the Bureau of Labor Statistics pay our compensation benefits managers is 20% market median, a computational survey what
the median worker has paid. If you're interested to allegations following a wage leader which demand? Well, if we're learning labor market
in paying more than 75% of your competitors, also could potentially put you at risk of violating we can actually count the number people it is
then the ideal survey would also tell you what the Sherman Antitrust act. Next let's look to who hold those jobs in our labor market. We
the 75th percentile of the market pay is. Also, labor markets. A labor market is a market in can count how many philosophers there are in
the ideal survey would also give you the whole which firms demand labor and workers supply our labor market. We also know how can give a
pay mix. They won't just tell you what your labor. And why learn about labor markets? Well, rough idea of how much they're paid. As we can
competitors are paying in terms of base pay. But first of all in the grand scheme of things labor enumerate them, we can count them, that's our
that'll also tell you what your competitors are markets are what determine pay. There's a quantity. And we can tell how much they're
targeting in terms of their short term incentives, second really important reason, too, in that we paid. But of course, if we've been out into the
their long term incentives with the stock options can't always find perfect benchmarks for our labor market, we know that not all people in
and their benefits. jobs. And so understanding how labor markets those jobs are going to be paid equally. They're
 Also the ideal survey would comply with work will help us understand when we'll need to going to follow some distribution. And that
antitrust laws and the ideal survey probably adjust our pay upward or downward based on distribution is what we'll get from administering
doesn't exist. And if you want a survey that has our benchmarks so we can come up with better our salary survey. We'll get a survey, and there'll
the same industry, the same geography, the approximations. be a lot of people who are paid they're near
same jobs and has all this information, that's  So what do labor markets look like? Well, first of each other in the middle, although there are a
probably going to be pretty hard to come by. So all, a labor market will map wage on the y axis few outliers, either high, people who are paid
let's double down on antitrust laws, those are and the quantity of labor, how many people are less.
pretty important. on those jobs, on the x axis.  And so you might ask, why is that a distribution?
 So first of all the first when we're administering  The first thing the labor market, of course, will Why aren't all people who are in that job paid
a salary survey I might be concerned that we have is the supply of labor. The supply of labor is the exact same wage? Well, that's because
would be colluding with other employers. And upward sloping because to attract more workers workers aren't commodities are those workers
this is the basis of the Sherman Antitrust Act, into that job, you're going to have to pay them not all lawyers look exactly like every other
but employers also need to know how they more. You're only going to get so many lawyer, not every doctor looks likes every other
need to pay their workers in order to be philosophers if you don't pay them very much. doctor. They have different specialties,different
competitive. And so the Department of Justice There's also a downward sloping demand for geographies or cost of living. And all these
and the Federal Trade Commission's created labor. The intuition behind that is that as things
these Antitrust Safety Zone guidelines. The first demand for labor, as you get more people who  are taken to account when we looking at
element for that guideline is to have a third are entering those jobs, employers are willing to anyone labor market bench marking survey.
party do that, such as an academic or a trade pay less and less for each additional person to  Also employers can pay two people who look
association. do those jobs. You only need so many shoe like differently as well. This can speak also to the
 A second element is to make sure the data are shines or philosophers or academics in the organizational strategy. So for example, an
at least three months old. That way you're not world. Now here's one of the keys to organization might choose to pay their workers
updating your information or your understanding labor markets, you don't actually more than the median worker and their bench
compensation based on benchmarks in real see labor supply and labor demand directly. All mark data, so that way they can be more
time. Third you want to make sure there's we do is we know the world that we live in, we selective in who they bring in and they can also
enough data and that it's aggregated. That way observe the intersection of labor supply and have higher retention.
you're not able to directly match your pay on labor demand. What do we mean we observe  And so kind of the big idea here is that when
any one benchmark employer, that could lead the intersection of labor supply and labor we're talking about doing a survey, we're talking
about taking a little piece or a little sample from  And so then what happened? Well, as you know side factors, those are things such as how
this broader labor market. We're trying to figure about this time about in 2010, there's also the attractive the job is. Or there's migration to the
out what the wage is in this competitive labor recession the rest of the country. And so one of job and how expensive is to acquire those skills.
market. And so next up we're going to the things that was happening was more  So as a practical matter, how do we adjust for
determine what it is that determines labor workers were being attracted to the oil field of supply side factors? Well, for talking about a
supply and labor demand and how this could North Dakota. Then what happened? workforce that is more educated that probably
inform how we make adjustments based on our  Well, that's something that shifted the supply means we'll need to pay more for those
survey data. Thanks. outward. Supply shift outward, that would put workers. That's because to you to get a work
some downward pressure on wages. Of course force that's relatively educated compared to
Video 4: Población activa y demanda laboral in practice, wages didn't go down very much your bench mark, that's expensive for those
 Next up, we're talking about labor supply and yet, because demand was shifting up even faster workers to acquire more education and more
labor demand. So first of all, again, what do your than labor supply could keep up. But as more experience and so on. It would require greater
labor markets look like? people are becoming trained in these skills, pay to attract those kinds of workers.
 Let's take a tangible example, oil field workers in become oil field workers, and as people were  Another thing is compensating differentials if
North Dakota. So once again this is a labor moving to North Dakota, that was shifting labor your job or the job that you have in your
market, we have a supply of labor, those oil field supply as well. And this had that effect of also organization is less appealing for other reasons,
workers. You have a demand for labor that is all boosting the quantity of labor in the labor maybe it's a job that requires a lot of frequent
the different oil and gas companies that are market. But then what happened? Well, then at relocation for work, or a lot of business travel or
hiring them, and indeed we could count how the beginning of 2015, all prices started to fall, is perhaps relatively dangerous then you'll also
many oil field workers there are in this labor and as oil prices started to fall, demand for their have to pay more than your bench marks. So
market. We could also say something about the labor also shift it back down. So, while as the the typical examples are more hazardous,
different wages they are making. initial demand boost was based on high prices relocation, our less attractive work
 What happened after 2009? Well, in about and then technology that made them highly environment. So that's some of the supply side
2010, there was a technological innovation productive, the following demand was driven a factors that we might need to look out for when
called fracking, which made the oil field workers lot by lower prices. And as prices for oil went we're looking at our job. We're looking at our
a lot more productive, that is oil and gas prices down, employers didn't demand as much of benchmark jobs. And, for any differences, we
are very high and every oil field worker was able their labor, and so as employers supplanted lots have to adjust what our benchmark rate is
to produce a lot more of it. So, what happened? of their labor, that shifted the demand curve left based on those differences between our job and
Well, that's an example of something that would and downward. our benchmark job.
drive up demand. You had all of these  And so what did that mean? That meant that  The demand side factors. Price and productivity
employers, all of these drillers who were there was less overtime, they weren't willing to are going up in our industry as they were in oil
scrambling to use new technology to produce a pay as much for those workers. So that means and gas drilling. Then we'll have to probably pay
lot of oil very cheaply. And as those employers the price of their labor went down. It also more than the power benchmarks. Also, if you
are scrambling over those workers, that means that they were reducing those hours, it's need a worker who is more productive than a
prompted an increase in wages. That's that price less. Equivalent of the quantity going down. typical worker in your benchmark you could
going up. And it also attracted people to start  And so, in other words, when we think about probably expect you'll need to pay more.
working more. They were working overtime, demand side factors, demand side factors are  Another piece of practical advice. Again, we
and they were coming in to switching their jobs those factors that drive the productivity, and were talking about benchmarking. We wanted
and to becoming oil field workers, and so on. the price of their labor. We think about supply to try to benchmark so we could get the closest
comparables that we possibly can. That's why
we're benchmarking based on our job duties
and our job descriptions as opposed to just
simply the titles. As the titles won't give us a
very good description or won't give us a very
good idea. The kind of job we're trying to match
compared to the actual lists of the things that
person would be doing. And the better that we
can actually match our job to those external
benchmark jobs, the less we'll have to worry
about adjusting for all of these differences
between our description and the description of
our benchmark jobs.
 And so the Bureau of Labor Statistics and many
other websites can also help us forecast wage
growth based on supply and demand factors.
And they'll also be very helpful in adjusting for
things like education. We can see, for example,
how much a Compensation Benefits Manager
who has a master's degree or make more than
just a bachelor's degree or less.
 So thank you so much.
examen look something more like this. So what do we  And so, there you go. So now you are a full
1. job duties see here? So the first thing that we'll see is of engineer. And then, after doing your job well,
2. job analysis course our different job titles. So for example, at once again you get raises, but after a certain
3. when some external job matches best on job the lower end of our structure, we'll have our point, you can't go any higher. You've reached
title and other external job matches best on job Junior Engineers, followed by our perhaps just the cap of an engineer's salary. And at this point
description, then it’s better to benchmark on job our Engineers. And then, our Senior Engineers you can't get anymore raises by doing your job
titles rather that job description and then there could be lead engineers or well or by having longer ten year rather the way
4. sin experiencia uno gana menos de la media de principal engineers or so on. that you and a raise is by getting another
pago  The other things we'll see are grades so these promotion to a senior engineer.
5. administrar las encuestas uno mismo are, again, the hierarchical ordering of the  And so, in our next video we'll be talking about
6. labor supply wil increase different jobs in our hierarchy. how we exactly set these grades. How we set
7. NO labor supply shift left  We also have our salary midpoints so we want those benchmarks and how we set those
labor demand will shift right this to be roughly the midpoints for where most ranges. Thanks. See you soon.
people would be earning for these different
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benchmarks. And then, lastly, we have our referencia internos
ranges. We have both the minimum salary that  Welcome back. Today, we're talking about
Video 1: Terminología de la estructura de
you might make as a junior engineer, and also salary structures and internal benchmarks. And
salario the most that you might make as a junior
 Welcome back, in this lesson we are going to be so in our previous video, we looked at this world
engineer. And to get a higher pay, you would in which you can actually observe all of the
discussing salary structures starting off with the have to be promoted into the next grade. And
discussion and an overview of our basic salary different benchmarks for all of the different
so, let's look at this from the employee's grades that you have, but that's kind of an ideal
structure terminology. So first of all, what is a perspective. So suppose that you've just
salary structure? The salary structure is a circumstance. Often times, we won't be able to
graduated from college, you have your observe the benchmarks for all of our different
hierarchical set of jobs and their associated pay engineering degree and you come out and you
ranges. And so, what does these actually look grades. So for example, we might be able to
join this organization. Well, where are you going adequately benchmark an engineer and a senior
like? So let's say that we're benchmarking an to start? And actually you're going to start at the
Engineer, then we're going to be looking up into engineer, but we won't be able to adequately
bottom. So you might start off at the minimum benchmark also the lead engineer and the
the labor market. And perhaps getting data from for a junior engineer. The organization might
a salary survey, and then we'll have our principle engineer and so on. And so what are
have some flexibility to start you at a higher you supposed to do? Well, so let's take an
benchmark pay rate for that Engineer. But then, level, if you negotiate that. But if you come into
of course, not all Engineers in our organization example where we are able to benchmark two
the organization you might typically start off at of these jobs in our hierarchy, but we're not
are going to be making the exact same pay rate. the minimum.
So instead of what we might have is our able to benchmark those middle engineers. And
 And so, let's say that you join the organization we're going to see what we're supposed to do.
Benchmark grade or our midpoint, be and of course you do your job very well, well
determined by our salary survey and then we're So the first thing that we're going to do is we're
then you might get raises. And as you gain going to establish control rates. That is, for
going to add and subtract the 20% to determine tenure and get raises over time, then you might
our range. And so, that is just an example for those jobs that we actually are able to
be considered a good candidate for a benchmark, we're going to essentially calibrate
one grade but if we had a full structure, it would promotion.
our whole organizational hierarchy, in our pay  So let's give a rehash. So the first step is going to junior engineers, we're saying that our survey
hierarchy. be to pick the jobs that we're going to data, if we're just taking a sample from the labor
 And from these control rates, we're going to fit benchmark. Typically these are going to the jobs supply and labor demand of junior engineers,
a pay policy line. That is, we're going to take the for which we can easily go off and we can find this can map onto our structure. And then
data that we have available, and we're going to good survey data to find out what the medium likewise, when we do the same thing for our
fit a line, and then we're going to fill in the gaps pay is for those jobs. They're typically going to senior engineers,
using that pay policy line. And that pay policy be the largest grades or the most standard  then we're also just taking a sample of labor
line is essentially a method for mapping our pay grades within our organizational hierarchy. The supply and labor demand from that senior
grades and our job grades to median pays. next step we're going to do is we're going to engineering labor market and then putting it
 So let's take an example from a slightly bigger benchmark pay at our control rates. That is, onto our structure as well. What does that
pay structure. So suppose we have seven we're going to figure out what the medians are mean? Well, that means that a lot of the same
different levels. And here we're just going to put given those surveys. rules that apply to labor supply and labor
our midpoints for our salary structure. So  The third type is going to be we're going to fit demand also apply when we're talking about
suppose that we're able to find good our pay policy line through regression or some our structures. So for example, let's ask this
benchmarks for levels 1, 2, 4, and 7. But we other method. And then fourth, we're going to question, why is it that senior engineers have
don't have very good benchmarks for 3, 5, and set pay for our non-benchmarked jobs using higher pay? Well, of course they're higher up on
6. So again, our first step is to establish our that pay policy line. the job hierarchy. But another way to look at it
control rates, which are going to be the rates for  And then lastly, we're going to determine our are from the labor supply perspective and the
those jobs that we can benchmark. And then ranges based on whatever our firm policies are. labor demand perspective. From the
we're going to fit our pay policy line. And so one  And so all together, these five steps are how perspective of labor supply, it's expensive for
method for doing this is called regression. you'd create a structure from those jobs that engineers to acquire greater skills and
 Regression is just simply a method for fitting a you are able to benchmark. experience. Those skills that might make a
best fit line through our available data. So we're  So let's look at the big picture. So in our programmer or an engineer, or what have you,
going to use regression to fit a line through previous lesson we also talked about how pay more productive are relatively scarce, and
those jobs that we can actually benchmark. was determined by labor markets. And so if the they're expensive to attain.
 And then we're going to fill in the midpoints pay is set by labor markets, well, how can it be  On the demand side, employers are also willing
from that regression line. And this is an example set by a structure? But really these two are very to pay more for those skills. Just because a skill
of what it might look like. So those predicted complementary. So for example, let's say that is expensive to obtain or it's rare doesn't per se
values from that regression would establish the we looked at a labor market, and we graphed make it more highly paid. But rather it's that
midpoints for the structure for the specific both the pay for senior engineers and also the they're both scarce, and also that employers are
grades, and then we can add and subtract pay for junior engineers. And remember, we willing to pay a lot to get it, that makes those
maybe ten or 15% from those different grades said that pay is set at the intersection of labor jobs pay more.
to establish our full structure. supply and labor demand. And then we said,  In the next step, we're going to be discussing
 Another method is simply to use the midpoints. when we're doing a survey, all we're really doing how to establish criteria for raises and
So for using midpoints, all we're doing is we're is kind of taking a little sample from the promotions from our salary structures. All right,
taking the jobs that we can benchmark, we're intersection of labor supply and labor demand see you soon.
fitting lines between them, and then we're filling to determine what people are usually paid in
in the gaps from there. the labor market. And that's essentially what
we're doing here. So we're saying that for our
pay mix and it's the main way the organization on these different ratings. And so, here's an
gets to communicate this is the thing that we example of a raise schedule.
value. This is how you progress with the  So, here we'll notice that the people who get
organization. This is how you get promoted. This the largest raises are those who are relatively
is how you get raises. low within the ranges, so they have a lot to
 And so, first of all, so let's talk about our climb and they also have the highest
different raise criteria. And let's go back to our performance ratings. And so, those employees
new engineer who's just out of college and just who have outstanding performance ratings but
joined our organization, is that they come at the are also relatively low within that range are
Video 3: Criterios para aumentos salariales y
bottom of the Junior Engineer's pay structure. going to get raises of 5 or 6%. In contrast,
ascensos  And, of course, they're going to come and there's going to be some people who don't get
 >> All right. So now we've talked about all the they're going to be interested in what it is that any raises in this context.
terminology for a salary structure, our they need to do to get raises and ultimately  So, one group of people who won't get raises
midpoints, our control points, our grades, our promoted. are those who are above the maximum salary
ranges. Now, I want to talk about how we  And so, that's going to be determined by range. So, they don't have anywhere to climb.
actually determine what those should be. That whatever the organization's policy regarding And so, regardless of whether they have an
is, what are the criteria for our raises and raises are. outstanding performance rating or an
promotions within the organization?  So, one method is to tie the raises based on a acceptable performance rating, they're not
 First of all, we have to remember that the pay tenure schedule. So, for example, what we have going to be eligible for a raise. The other people
structure isn't everything. The pay structure here is when you come into the organization, who aren't going to be eligible for a raise are
determines base cash. Base cash is only one of you might earn a wage of $10 per hour. And those who get performance ratings of below
four elements of the payment, along with short then, as you stay with your organization, then expectations or unacceptable. And, again, it
term incentive, long term incentive and our eventually he'll get raises up to a rate of $15.50 doesn't matter where they are on the salary
benefits and perks. And even then, our paymex per hour, if you stay as a junior engineer. schedule, whether they're relatively low or
is only one part of the full employee value  And so, what does this communicate to our relatively high, those who have low
proposition. Also included in the book, employees? This communicates that we value performance ratings under this kind of a policy
employee value proposition, isn't just their pay, tenure, that we value loyalty, and we value would not get a raise. And so, let's look at our
their total comp, but it's also all of the noncash being in the organization for a long time. And promotion criteria. So, again, with our raises be
awards and all of the other things that makes it's those people who are in the organization for communicate the different things you have to
people come and excited to work for the a long time who are going to get to the top of do in an organization to succeed and to do well
organization every morning. their wage schedules. But this isn't the only and to get a raise. Let's look at the things we
 So, before you design, you have to know our method that we can use for determining raises. need to do to get promoted into a higher grade,
three Ms. And remember, these are our money, Here's another method. So, let's say that we and therefore, as we go from being at the top of
our mix and our messaging. The salary structure wanted to tie raises to our performance ratings. our old range to the bottom of our next range,
communicates how employees progress in the And so, this is an example of a method of we'll also be eligible for larger raises as well.
organization. And this is important because the communicating to employees that we also value  So, there's a few different ways that we can
salary structure, even though it determines just both your tenure, because that let's you climb in rank-order our jobs. So, one method is through
base pay and base pay is only one element of the organization, but we also value your score the jobs, which is where the grades are
the paymix, it's of course a very big part of the
determined by the tasks that employees and would also be eligible for a higher cap. And, minimums and the maximums of the ranges.
perform. indeed, the people who'd be making the most in And so, what I want to talk about today in
 Another is determined the skills, such as the this kind of a structure will be those who are in particular is a process of implementing broad
skill, their certifications, their licensures or the the highest grade which would be those with band which are becoming increasingly popular
job requirements. either a Master's with a lot of extra coursework in companies. In a way that gets all five, that is
 And the last one is the competency-based or a pHD and who also have a lot of experience, achieves pay flexibility, job flexibility, allows for
ranking which are determined by demonstrated 16 years or more of experience. These people a specialization within your career ladders, but
behavioral competencies. And each of these would be making a salary of $64,174 per year. also allows more frequent promotions and also
communicates something different about what And so, again, kind of the big picture is that we a stronger structure. Now, let's return to our
it is that we value whether it's the jobs that you want to establish our raise and our promotion engineers. So here, again, at our organization,
perform, the skills or the licensures or the criteria to communicate what it is that our people enter the organization as a junior
certifications that you have, or the behavioral organization values. So, thanks and I'll see you in engineer and then maybe after three years if
competencies, such as the ability to lead people. next class. they do their job very well, they could get
 And so, let's look at an example of a skill-based promoted to become an associate engineer.
structure. So, here we have a structure from a Video 4: Banda ancha And then, after perhaps, another three years of
public school district in the United States. And  Welcome back. In this video, we're talking about doing their job well, they could become
what you'll notice here is that you have, its rank broadbanding. promoted to become a senior engineer. And
ordered by years of service. And so, the longer  So what is broadbanding? Broadbanding is the we're going to try to, again, accomplish all those
you are within your particular grade, then the process of consolidating many grades into fewer things that we want to accomplish. We want
more pay you'll get. And the grades themselves bands with wider ranges. And so, this process is them to enter as a junior engineer still but we
are determined by your highest degree of a process that can take away some of the want to provide them more frequent small
educational attainment and, additionally, how structure and the frequency of promotions. But promotions that way we can use promotions as
many extra credit hours you have. also gives us kind of a maximum amount of an incentive and use promotions at a motivating
 For example, let's say that you had somebody flexibility to because those ranges are very wide. tool providers since that one is career
who had a Bachelor's degree with no extra  So more advantages. So first of all, the advancing.
credit hours and they're just entering our school advantages include more pay flexibility because  And then, also, we want people to specialize
district. And this would be someone who would those ranges can be still made very wide. More into either technical or managerial tracks. That
be paid a salary of $34,048 per year. And as they lateral job flexibility, because there's no need to way some of our excellent star engineers can
grow in tenure in the organization, they can, if worry about how grades snap on to each other continue to excel in using their talents and
they don't get any additional educational if you switch from one job family to another job perceived on their technical track. And others
attainment, they can make up to $38,787 per family. And also, they allow for a various who perhaps are very good in terms of soft skills
year. Now, at this point, after eight years of specialization in terms of your career ladders and managerial skills and people skills, might be
service, they wouldn't be eligible for future because we have more of that lateral job able to instead choose a managerial track where
increases. Rather, to get additional pay, they flexibility career advancement. So what are they're actually leading projects as opposed to
would also have to do additional coursework. some of the disadvantages? So one job duties that are more specific and germane
So, let's say that they did 15 credit hours of disadvantage is rare promotions because you're into those technical engineers. And we're going
additional coursework. Then, this person, if collapsing the grades. And also, some loss of to try to accomplish all of those. And so, just to
they'd entered in at zero years of service, would structure because again those grades were revisit what our structure looks like, again
be making about $900 more when they entered essentially putting some bounds on the people are entering into our organization as
junior engineers. They might spend three years Associate Engineer 3, which has the job code of multiple career ladders and we've also
there. After another three years they may get A6 to a Senior Engineer 1, which has a job code preserved that sense of structure that's so
promoted to become an associate engineer and of A7. So now you're up to A7 and then again important to our sense of internal equity and
lastly to a senior engineer. you're eligible for promotions up to A8 and A9 fairness.
 And then, now what do we want to do? So let's and so on.  So once again, those are the broadbands and
say we're revising this process and now instead  So that could be one person, another person thanks again for listening.
of entering just as a junior engineer, we're going might say, I've spent my three years at a Junior
to break that down into a very narrow grade, Engineer and I enjoyed the technical side but I'd
and so first of all we come in as an A1 junior prefer to spend my time doing more of the
engineer. And then, instead of after waiting people and the project management job duties.
three years for a promotion, again, we want And so, instead of taking a promotion to A4 you
people to be promoted more frequently and so accept a promotion into again a job that we'll
after one year you might be eligible to be call it B4 which is precisely along the managerial
promoted to an A2. Now, once again, you're still track.
a junior engineer. They might be referred to as a  And so, you come in as B4, B5, B6 until you
Junior Engineer 2 instead of a Junior Engineer 1, become eligible for a promotion, again to a big
for example. And then, after another year, promotion to the senior job levels, B7, B8, B9.
you're eligible for another small promotion up  So now what we've done is we've again allowed
into A3. And then, at this point, now that you've for more frequent promotions and we've also
spent three years, you've achieved kind of what allowed for some flexibility in terms of
we wanted to achieve in terms of more frequent specialization. And what we're going to do, the
promotions. Now, we also want to give some intuition behind broadbanding is we're going to
people the flexibility to either specialize in terms still preserve that flexibility in terms of pay by
of a technical track or managerial track. And so, grouping in all of the levels four through six into
now there's going to have to be a choice of associates. All the levels A7 through A9 and B7
whether they get promoted to from A3 to A4 or through B9, into its own larger band.
from A3 into B4 and B4 is going to represent a  Let's see what this looks like in terms of our pay
separate hierarchy, a separate career ladder for structure.
those who are interested in pursuing a  create some more flexibility in case someone
managerial track. So let's say that you enter the decides they want to transfer from being an
organization as an A1 then you proceed to A2 associate engineer to an associate project
and A3. And you decide that you would prefer leader or vice versa. So you still have that
to have your career advanced in technical flexibility as well and so this is an example of
direction. And so, then you might become broadbanding where you've accomplished our
promoted to A4. So now you're an Associate goals. We've had more frequent promotions,
Engineer. we've had some flexibility. In terms of the job
 And then, you're can be promoted to A5. Then, transitions and lateral transitions. You can
another year promote to A6, and then you'd be change the ranges to make the pay more
eligible for the next big promotion, from maybe flexible, as well. And also we've allowed for
SEMANA 2 – Pagar por desempeño we talked about criteria for raise and So what we're going to do is we're going to
promotions what we can do is we can make it so distribute that bonus pool that we budgeted
Clase 1 – Aumentos y ascensos we get a larger raise when we have a higher for this purpose. To these three employees
performance evaluation and also when we're on the basis of their accumulated points.
lower in our pay range for that grade. o So let's go through an example of our doing
Video 1: Pagos relacionados a las evaluaciones
 And so typically when we're talking about tying of calculations. So let's say that Susan gets
de desempleo pay to raises we're talking about tying 1,000 points and her division as a whole is
 Welcome back. In this video, we're talking evaluations to those different evaluations allocated $200,000 bonus pool. Maybe that
about tying pay to performance evaluations. So specifically that assess current productive skills. was because her division had $200,000 in
what are our options for tying pay to That is we're thinking about tying our cost savings, for example. So let's also
performance evaluations? performance evaluations to different measures suppose that employees in her division, if
 There's going to be a lot of options because that try to capture the things that makes you added all of their points together, you
performance evaluations can be tied to any employees continuously valuable as opposed would get 100,000 points. So then you would
element of the pay mix. to having done a particular contributions in the take that $200,000 in that bonus pool
 So again, the pay mix includes our cash, base past or having high future potential. divided it by the total number of outstanding
cash, our short term incentives, our long term  And again, those raises are reflected with points. And you figure that each point is
incentives and out benefits and perquisites. moving up within our pay grades. worth about $2 of that bonus pool.
 But remember except for tying our performance  The other method is to tie our performance o And so therefore Susan, who was awarded
evaluations to our base pay we're talking about evaluations to things like short term incentives. 1,000 points based on her contributions and
tying them to raises. When we tie evaluations of things a short term based on her performance evaluation, those
 If we're tying our performance evaluations to incentive we're usually talking about rewarding 1,000 points to be worth a total of $2,000
short term incentives, we're usually talking people for their prior accomplishments. from that bonus pool. So an advantage of a
about tying them to bonuses, we're tying them  So one method is the simply a tie fixed bonus to bonus pool is that it helps budgeting because
to long term incentives, we're tying them to the different performance evaluations. So for in this case the firm knew that they were
option grants. example, if our employees ratings for going to allocate $200,000 to that bonus
 And if we're tying them prerequisites, we're outstanding they might get a $2,000 bonus, and pool. And it also can create cooperation
tying them to things like maybe reserved a smaller bonuses for lower performance among employees so they can improve the
parking or perhaps a nicer larger office. ratings. size of that divisions bonus.
 Or if we're tying performance evaluations to  Another method which is popular for budgetary o So for example, if that division was tying that
non cash awards, we might be talking about reasons, is to instead allocate points or claims bonus pool to something like cost savings,
employee reward program or perhaps better job on a bonus pool based on ones performance then they can encourage employees to get
assignments. evaluation. together to try to figure out ways to make
 And so we're going to have a lot of different  So let's look at an example of how that works: more money therefore, maximizing the size
options again for tying performance evaluations o Say that we have a bonus pool and we have of that bonus pool.
to the different ways that we can pay people. these three different employees. One o One of the disadvantages of a bonus pool is
 But let's start off with tying our performance employee has 2,00 points, one employee it can also create competition. That's
evaluations to base cash. Well one method who has slightly worse performance has because the more points my colleagues
again is to tie our performance evaluations to 1,000 points and then a third employee has have, the larger number of outstanding
our base cash through raises. So for example, as slightly worse performance gets 500 points. points in our total. That means that each one
of my points will be worth a little bit less as it  There's also non monetary awards. And so these  Next up, we're talking about should pay even be
becomes diluted. would be things like parking spaces or a rewards based on these performance evaluations at all.
o Another disadvantage is that it can also be program or a recognition or so on. And this will Thanks, I'll see you next time.
bureaucratic to administer. And it also be something that we will talk about in the last
potentially could be misaligned to business lesson of the course. And so just as an example, Video 2: ¿El pago debería de depender en las
objectives and that's why we want to make we can take an example of Microsoft. So evaluaciones de desempleo?
sure that our bonus pool is aligned to our Microsoft again is an organization that again  Welcome back. In this video, we're going to be
business objectives enough the way that we requires very highly skilled employees and asking the question, should pay even depend on
distribute points awards employees for their programmers, and so on. And they're also very performance evaluations?
contributions to meeting those objectives. known for their system of performance
 That is, should our pay be determined by
 So next, let's get to tying performance evaluation. The way that Microsoft employees
something that looks like this? That is, imagine
evaluations to long term incentives. So as we're are evaluated, they're rated on both they're
you have a meeting with your boss, and the
tying performance evaluations to base cash to current skills, and those performance ratings
boss comes in and says, I think that you were
reward employees for their accumulation of contribute to their raises and to their
very reliable, you did very high quality work, but
productive abilities. When we're tying it to short promotions. Then they're also rated on their
you didn't generate as much new business and
term incentives, we're tying to prior future potential to the organization and the
you didn't exhibit as much leadership as we
accomplishments. We're usually using more highly you're rated on your future
would have wanted. Then, in that case, can we
performance evaluations and giving long term potential to work within Microsoft, the more
really have a conversation that'll be both
incentives like stock options to pay them for you'll be given stock options. Which again are
developmental but at the same tie those
their future potential within the organization. going to particularly valuable for employees
different elements to the way we pay
And so one example of how these could work is who do end up staying at Microsoft to realize
employees? And that's a big question.
that for employees who have outstanding that potential.
 That's because performance evaluations really
performance ratings or perhaps have a rates  And then Microsoft also gives bonuses in
have two main purposes. One is kind of the big
have outstanding future potential for their work proportion to one's short term wins over the
bucket of developmental purposes. That is, we
within the firm. We'll give them larger option prior year. And again, these are a way of
want the boss to be engaged with employees, to
grants than we would to those who perhaps motivating employees who seemingly had some
have a learning conversation with them,
have ratings for less potential within the firm. contribution to the organization in the most
regarding how they can do better in the future,
 And remember, the reason why we might do recent past.
how they can better align their efforts and their
this is because long term incentives such as  And so just to give an overview again, we objectives to the goals of the organization. And
stock option are especially valuable to workers usually think about salary as good evaluations so it really serves a very important
who plan to stay. And on of the pejorative terms lead to raises and we usually tie those to parts developmental purpose, certainly for the
for short stock options is golden handcuffs of the prior evaluations that measure current employees and for the organization as a whole.
(esposas). That's because if you leave the skills. Short term incentives, they're tied to
 But of course, the second purpose of these
organization too early, then you're forgoing bonuses and we're usually rewarding prior
performance evaluations is that we're
(privarse, renunciar) any of the options which accomplishments. And then when promise
potentially also tying them to raises and
have invested. And if this terminology sounds evaluations are trying to measure future
bonuses, to option grants, and so on, so all
familiar to you, you can always just look ahead potential then we might give them something
these different pay elements. But even for
and look at our video on stock options. like an option grant.
organizations that say we don't tie evaluations
to pay, it often times will still be tied to things
like promotions, which so implicitly make those like pay, that we might also want to include you have both the primacy and the recency bias
evaluations about pay. when we are using performance evaluations. working for you. And the same thing can be said
 Also, when we're seeing if people are eligible for  Another challenge is also different evaluation in performance evaluations as well.
potentially job changes or lateral transfers biases. We're all human, and when we're trying  Our most recent interactions, perhaps that are
within an organization, or when we need to to rate employees, we kind of bring all of those done very close to the actual performance
perhaps engage in layoffs, or we might be behavioral biases and baggage with us. evaluation themselves, are going to be very
terminating employees, then we might be  And so the first two I want to discuss are the salient in the rater's mind. And also the very first
referring to those performance evaluations to halo and the horn bias. interaction with that person could be very
try to establish some criteria for who gets laid  The halo bias is our bias to look at somebody salient in that person's mind and could color all
off or who gets terminated or who gets who's great in one dimension, and to allow that their future evaluations.
promoted or so on. to bleed over into other dimensions. So for  And the last set of biases I want to discuss are
 And we think about those as generally being in example, Bob is great with people and so I think the spillover and the anchoring bias.
this bigger bucket of judgment purposes. And he's pretty good with numbers, even though  The spillover bias has to do with the bias that
the problem is that when a performance these things could be completely uncorrelated. we have that our ratings from previous years or
evaluation becomes about judgment, becomes  The horn bias is kind of the halo bias's cousin. So previous evaluations can spill over into our
about or tied to things like raises or promotions for example, Bob is terrible with numbers, and current evaluations. So for example, if I rated
or terminations or so on, it's really hard to also so I let that bleed over to my bad evaluation of somebody as a five out of five in the prior year,
use that same conversation for development as his people skills as well. then that five of five rating, I might allow it to
well.  And we are able see in the laboratory and when spill over into my current evaluation as well.
 That is, we think about the purposes of we do research with firms that people actually  And very closely related to that is the anchoring
development and judgment to be in conflict do allow the halo and the horn bias to affect bias. The anchoring bias means that when we
with each other. And indeed, when we think their evaluations. have some sort of number in our head, we tend
about, again, a developmental conversation,  The second set of biases I want to talk about to anchor from that number and then only make
developmental performance evaluation would have to do with timing. So the primacy bias and small adjustment as we see appropriate, as
require the manager to be very candid about the recency bias. The primacy bias kind of goes opposed to rethinking those items
their suggestions and the employee to be very back to this idea, first impressions matter a lot. independently. And the anchoring bias cause is
receptive to have the right kind of learning That is, when someone does something well prior to the root of that spillover bias, where we
conversation. initially in our first interaction with them, we only adjust from a prior year's or a prior
 But on the other hand, if those scores are being tend to look at all of our future interactions in a measurement period's evaluations. And it's also
tied to things like pay or promotion or favorable light. The recency see bias is the flip related, of course, to the halo and the horn bias.
terminations, then it leads the managers to side. We tend to remember the last thing that Whereas we think and we get anchored on
want to be evasive. happened. I think if, for example, a job those very high, very low ratings, but then we
 They don't want to give employees bad ratings interview went well, then probably the most only make small adjustments from there.
that could potentially affect their pay or their important moment is that very first interaction,  Another concern about performance
career. And likewise, employees are going to where you have that primacy bias, that first evaluations are the so-called evaluations death
want to be defensive as well. And that's going to impression. Maybe the second most important spiral, and this can be especially salient when
make these purposes of having a candid, open moment is that very last impression, the very we're tying performance evaluations to pay.
developmental conversation very difficult to last thing that happened within that
balance with the more judgmental purposes, conversation. And if you have those two, then
vinculación de evaluación de desempeño con el  So designing performance evaluations to do regardless of where you are in the organization
pago what? First of all, we want to design evaluations or who's doing the ratings, you should expect
 So the first step is ratings inflation. So there are that can develop employees, get accurate data that someone who's getting a 5 is also someone
several cases about companies that try to that can be used for things like compensation, who solves problems that their customers might
implement performance evaluations and tie promotions, and so on, and also develop not even know about.
them to pay, and managers, in an effort to avoid evaluations that avoid conflicts and avoid bias.  So when do we actually use these behaviorally-
conflict, would try to rate their employees as And how are we going to do that? anchored rating scales? We're typically talking
highly as possible. That way they avoid conflict  The two main steps are going to be good about evaluating performance based on these
and they maintain a good working relationship benchmarks and good communications. behavioral inputs. If we know what employees
with their subordinates. But after this ratings  And the first thing we're going to look at are should do to be successful, we can actually
inflation, ratings start to lose their meaning. benchmarking inputs. When we're talking about measure what it is that employees do and that
That is, everyone comes to see the highest benchmarking inputs, we're talking about usually involves jobs where employees have
ratings as an entitlement. benchmarking employee behaviors. more supervision.
 And when the organization is trying to tap the  And so for here we're going to introduce a new  That is, to actually implement BARS, we'd have
very top performers for something like a term. This is a behaviorally-anchored rating to have a manager who's actually in a position
promotion, then it becomes very hard to tell, scale, or BARS for short. So BARS is a scale that to observe how that employee interacts with
because everybody has a very high rating. maps behaviors onto a specific performance their customers. Are they able to engage in kind
 And so the second step is that those ratings rating scale. of a problem-solving conversation? Do they
start to lose meaning.  So let's see how that works. So let's take an make efforts to learn about their customers'
 And then third, because everybody thinks that example of a BARS for customer service. So here problems or so on?
they're getting this message that they're doing you'll notice that there are five different scores,  And so some of these behaviors might be very
their job well, the purpose of development also a rating of 5, 4, 3, 2, or 1. And each of those difficult to actually measure based on their
declines. scores are tied, or they're anchored, to a very outputs, because different clients could defer,
 And so in kind of the final stage is that as specific set of behaviors. That is, to get a rating they might not collect data on the outputs, even
performance declines because the development of 5 on customer service, this is a person who though you can observe what the behaviors
declines, pay rises more quickly than is must discover, probe, and solve problems that those employees are doing, or so on.
sustainable, because ratings inflation is causing customers don't even know about. And to get a  And so again, if we can observe those behaviors,
people to become eligible for very large pay score of 1, you would have to have little attempt then we might be thinking about benchmarking
increases. to understand customer problems. on inputs, that is, using something like a
 And so how are we going to combat these  And so what are we doing here? By tying each behaviorally-anchored rating scale.
biases and this death spiral? That's going to be score to something that seems like something  Next we'll talk about benchmarking on outputs.
the subject of our next video, when we talk more of an observable, objective behavior, When we're talking about benchmarking on
about designing effective performance we're trying to make it so it's more easy for a outputs, we're not talking about trying to
evaluations. manager to justify a score that corresponds to a measure what it is that employees are doing or
certain behavior. And also something that could their behaviors. We're talking about measuring
Video 3: Diseñar evaluaciones de desempeño l be more objective and more comparable across what it is that employees actually contribute,
 Welcome back. In this video we're talking about perhaps different managers who might have what it is that they produce, what they output.
designing performance evaluations. different biases or might have different  And one of the methods for this is a
tendencies to rate people differently. That is, management by objective, and so that's a
method for benchmarking employees' ratings to whose outcomes would be very easy to quality measures that we'll have data for, these
their achievement of prespecified goals. measure even if we aren't necessarily directly output data for. And then, so we'll have a
 And when we're talking about management by supervising them. Well, in this case, since we separate section of our performance
objectives, an example could be, again, a 5- can measure those outputs, we might be more evaluations for those where the outputs are
point rating scale. So here, to get a rating of 4, likely to use a technique such as management easily measured even if the inputs that we know
the objective would be to meet 100% of the by objective. correspond to good outputs are not measuring.
new business target. And to get the highest  And so how do we design our MBOs? Well, we  The second set of best practices I want to
ratings, you'd actually have to beat your target can typically use the acronym SMART to help us discuss are regular communication.
objective. design them. That is, management by  And specifically, we want to specify to an
 And at lower levels of meeting that new objectives, those objectives should be specific, employee the desired behaviors and objectives
business target, you would get a lower level. measurable, attainable, realistic, and time- in advance of when they're actually measured.
And so how is this different from a behaviorally- bound. So for example, when we said that to get We also want to meet with our employees
anchored rating scale? Well, you'll notice that, the score of a 4 on our MBO, we had to regularly and to explain scores. Kind of the
again, you're not measuring their behaviors, not generate $10 million in new business, that $10 golden rule of performance evaluations is that
measuring what it is they try to do or their effort million is a specific number, $10 million. It's also they should not be a surprise when the formal
or whatever they're trying to do to get new measurable. Presumably we can measure how performance evaluation comes in. That is, if the
business. You're only measuring whether an much new business they bring in. We want it to manager is communicating expectations and
employee actually achieves this outcome or this be attainable and realistic. That is, it's not too communicating what behaviors or what
objective. And so typically we're talking about much of a stretch goal. Hopefully it won't be objectives correspond to what scores, then it's
measuring based on outputs, or using a impossible for an employee to generate $10 taking some of the subjectivity out of those
technique such as management by objectives, if million in your business. And then also you want ratings and therefore making them more
we know what employees should accomplish to it to be time-bound. That is, that employee has expectable and more predictable to employees.
be successful, not what behaviors they should perhaps one fiscal year, beginning January 1st And that also helps the manager have more of a
use in order to be successful. and ending at the end of that same year, to learning conversation, a more developmental
 We're also typically going to benchmark on actually obtain that $10 million in new business, conversation, while still having these
outputs and use techniques such as MBOs when and so it's time-bound. evaluations be used for judgmental purposes as
we can measure what employees accomplished.  And we don't necessarily think of BARS or MBOs well.
That is, for example, if we're talking about an is being one or the other, or all or nothing.  So for example, a manager could say something
airline flight attendant, then it might be very Typically we'll have multiple ratings. Some of like, I see that you scored a 2 out of 5 on this
easy to see that an employee's behaving them will be behaviorally-anchored and some of dimension. Let's work together to see if we can
courteously, but we might not be actually them will more closely resemble measure by figure out ways to bring that score up in the
measuring outputs such as customer objectives. And so for example, it might try to future.
satisfaction. And in that case, we'd want to use measure things like customer service or  So in summary, tying performance evaluations
something like BARS as opposed to teamwork or leadership or reliability as to pay and to promotions and to terminations
management by objective (cuando se observan behaviors that we can observe and that we and so on, can harm the developmental purpose
los comportamientos, pero no el resultado might tie to the behaviorally-anchored rating of those performance evaluations.
final). scales. And then separately we also might have  We also know from a lot of experience that
 But if we're talking about a job such as a separate set of objectives for them to pursue raters will often try to avoid conflict by giving
salespeople who would have a lot of autonomy, such as new business, business retention, and very high evaluations.
 And we can reduce bias and conflict by trying to  Or, revenue, the amount of revenue that  And so what, so whether we use team
benchmark our performance measures and salesperson might bring in. incentives, or individual incentives or
communicating them in advance of the formal  Units such as the number of units sold, satisfied tournament or rank based incentives, will
evaluation themselves. customers. So scores on customer satisfaction depend a lot again our money, our mix and our
survey, that might be administered to that messaging.
Clase 2 – Incentivo a corto plazo salesperson's customers. Or good evaluations  And so when we have an individual incentive,
from either from the bosses or from peers or that means that I paid for my own personal
from customers and so on. And once again, measured performance. And in that case, if my
Video 1: ¿Incentivar o no incentivar? (¿Cuáles those key performance indicators or inputs. teams performance goes up well that doesn't
son los incentivos a corto plazo?)  And a lot of the outputs are those short term really effect me and so I might not try to help
 Welcome back. In this lesson, we're talking incentives. my teammates per say I may not try to help my
about Short Term Incentives and in this video,  So based on those profits or the revenues or the peers because I'm not being paid for that but at
we're talking about what are Short Term units sold or those evaluations we'll be the same time I won't really care if it goes up or
Incentives. awarding non-discretionary bonuses such as down either.
 So, Short Term Incentives include bonuses, those commissions that sales person might be  In contrast, if you have a team based incentive,
commissions, piece rates and other incentives entitled to. for example, we have for example a
that are targeted on rewarding and incentivizing  The discretionary bonuses (pago extra que la manufacturing plant where there are four of us
specific key performance indicators. empresa acuerda pagar) as the boss might say, who are working at a work station or one
 And what is a Key Performance Indicator? Well, you know, your contributions to the working it, then you might be paid based on the
a Key Performance Indicator, is the performance organization were really great, so we would be performance of my entire team. And in that
measure that can be used to determine our giving you these discretionary bonuses on top of case if my team does well then my pay goes up
Short Term Incentives. your other compensation. But then also your as well too. And in that case I might be more
 So one way to think about it are our KPIs, our commissions, and your other incentives as well. likely to help my teammates do better.
Key Performance Indicators our inputs. And our  So we're talking about Short Term Incentives.  kind of the opposite of a team-based pay is a
outputs are those Short Term Incentives such as We're talking about both performance rank or tournament based incentive. That's
the commissions, or bonuses, or so on. measures, those KPIs (indicadores claves de where I'm paid for my relative rank. So for
 And remember Short Term Incentives are just desempeño), and also rewards that could be example, there's in a famous example of the
going to be one element in the pay mix. distributed on the individual-level, the team- sales team might have the very top salesperson
 And again the main purpose of Short Term level, the-division level, or the firm-level. So for might get a very fabulous vacation or a new car
Incentives are to motivate workers to work example, for an individual-level KPI might or a fabulous reward. The second placed person
towards those KPI. include a salesperson's personal sales numbers. might get a much smaller award. And those who
 So Key Performance Indicators could be  Or it could be based on the team's sales are relatively poor sales people may not get any
measured in many different ways. So, in the numbers of the division or the firm. And also the short term incentives or might get terminate in.
typical line 2, either the objectives of the reward can be distributed specifically to that And so and this ranked tournament based
individual, the group, or the organization. individual for that own individual's sales. Or it incentives, if my teammates do well and that
 They include things such as profits, so for could be to the entire team with each share means my pay goes down because my rank
example, for a salesperson, the profits of the going to the members of that team, or divisional among my team looks worse.
margins that associate in the products that they or firm level there as well.  And so we have to think about based on these
sell. individual team base or rank base incentives
what you know again based on what happens to little risk, for things that are outside of my, or
my pay base and how they do is going to affect my teammates, or my colleagues control. Video 2: ¿Los trabajos debería utilizar
how I'm going to allocate my effort as well.  So for example, if I'm a phone salesperson and incentivos a corto plazo?
 So again under individual base incentive I don't my product was doing okay until a competitor  Before we ask this question, we should point
really care what my peers are up to. came out with another phone. Well then that's out that in most jobs, short-term incentives are
 And also the risk that is being born (si se tiene not only going to affect my sales, but it's also not a big part of total compensation. Rather, if
talento) for things that outside of my control is going to make it harder for the other people in we're looking at the pay mix as a whole, most
relatively moderate. So what will I do? Well I will my organization to sell the phones as well. And people are getting the majority of their pay
pretty much keep to myself. so even if my sales look relatively low, by virtue through base pay, not through short-term
 Under a team based incentive plan, I'll want my of being the number one salesperson in a bad incentives. And so let's look at some examples.
team mates to succeed, because the better they year, you know that I was doing my job  If you think about nurses, or we think about
do, the more I'll be paid as well. relatively well. And so what will I do? Well under perhaps office workers, salaried office workers,
 One of the disadvantages to this is that if there's a rank based or tournament incentive, you these are jobs where most people aren't getting
some factor that's affecting my teammate's would really compete with your peers. It's kind the majority of their pay through short-term
performance, that's outside of my control and of the opposite of the team-based incentive incentives.
outside of my teammate's control, for example where you try to teach them best practices.
 But on the other hand, short-term incentives
business seasonality. Then this is going to affect  Under our rank based incentives you'd are prominent pieces of total compensation
all of our pay to a very high degree. This can potentially want to sabotage their work or you package in some other jobs.
magnify the effect of those things outside of our certainly wouldn't want to share your best
 So for example, in a factory, a worker might be
control affecting our pay. practices. You'd pretty much want to keep it to
paid a piece rate that is a certain commission for
 And so what will I do? Well some of the things yourself.
every unit that they produce.
that the organization wants us to do is to  And so again when we're using Short Term
 Or in agricultural work, people might be paid
cooperate, which we'll do. And we'll also try to Incentives we want to think about our money,
per basket or bushel of produce that they pick.
teach our team mates our best practices. our mix and our messaging.
 And in some jobs, we might see incentives, but
 But of course one of the disadvantages to these  If we're using Short Term Incentives, we want to
their use is relatively controversial, such as for
team based incentives is that I'm baring more explain why it is that we're using an individual-
teachers.
risk and then also have an incentive to free ride. based incentive or group-based incentives or
 And so what makes these jobs that use short-
That is I'll want to sit back and let my team tournament-based incentive, and where does
term incentives different from jobs that don't?
mates work really hard and because my that communicate for our value and for the
Or in other words, what is it that seems to make
teammates are working hard I'm going to be culture as of our firm?
a job a good candidate for short-term
paid a lot because my team is doing well, but at  So designing incentives. If we want teamwork,
incentives? And what is it that makes a job
the same time I'm exerting less effort. again don't use tournament incentives. You
seemingly a bad candidate for short-term
 And then lastly there's the ranked based and want competitiveness. Once again, don't use
incentives?
tournament incentives. While in this case team incentives.
 And to answer those questions, we want to look
actually my peers to do poorly. Because if I'm  So next step we're going to ask, should I use
at kind of the typical problems of short-term
only being paid for being number one, then the incentives? And we'll be asking questions like,
incentives. That is, these are the typical reasons
worse they look, the better I look in comparison. given my job, would this job be a good
why a job might not actually be paid with using
 One of the nice thing, about these tournament candidate for Short Term Incentives? Thanks,
based incentives, is that, I'm bearing relatively and I'll see see you next time.
short-term incentives, and instead might be what low performance is. And we need to be both the skills that are on the test and also
paid more in terms of a base salary. able to define what high performance is. those other things, those values that we want
 So the first problem is the alignment problem.  A fourth problem is the control problem. So teachers to be imparting to their students.
So what's the alignment problem? The what's the control problem? Well, that's where  We also have metering control problems as
alignment problem is that the performance your success depends on factors that are well. So for example, when we're giving an
measures aren't very well aligned to what it is outside of your control. And our big lesson here exam, we may not know what scores are grade
that we want to get out of our workers. And so is, don't use incentives for measures that appropriate. So for example, if we have a new
kind of our lesson is, don't pay for A while workers can't control. Workers tend to be more exam, and it's being rolled out to perhaps a very
expecting B. So we might see this in examples risk averse than their firms. And so when you're small population, then we might not know
like gaming, gaming an incentive plan. paying them incentives for things t hat are whether those scores are good scores or poor
 There is a famous example from a company outside of their control, you're pushing more scores, because we don't have any experience
called Lincoln Electric. And in that company, risk on those workers. And it's also potentially using that particular exam.
they used to pay typists by the keystroke. What very demotivating to get a cut in pay because of  It also could be difficult to meter an exam
the found were that some of the most things that you never really had control over. because of the control problem. That is, the
productive typists were just spamming one key  And so if you're able to solve these problems, teachers don't have control over what students
on their keyboard over their lunch break. then that job that you're looking at might be a know when they enter their class. So for
Actually, this wasn't a very productive activity. good candidate for a pay mix that is heavily example, if the students have their teacher and
 The second problem is the measurement weighted toward short-term incentives.  they have their teacher for a full year and at the
problem. That is, you can't measure what it is  And so let's try to look at some more examples. end of the year only 60% were reading at grade
that we want to measure. And the lesson here is  So the first example I want to get back to are level, it could look bad. But if I told you that
that you shouldn't pay short-term incentives for paying teachers for the test scores of their before, when the students had come into that
things you can't easily measure. And kind of the students. So here, the alignment problem could person's class, 0% of them were reading at
example from Lincoln Electric, again, would be, be that we want teachers to teach both grade level. Well in that case, even though 60%
we want those keystrokes to be high quality. technical skills and also soft skills like creativity reading at grade level isn't what the teacher
But at the same time, we can't really measure and cooperativeness, and so on. And that goes wanted, it's still a very big improvement. And so
easily what it is that makes a keystroke high along with our measurement problem which is, by that measure, according to the metering
quality. technical skills are easy to measure. We can problem, well, maybe the teacher actually did
 The third problem is the metering problem, and give, for example, a test at the end of the year do a good job by helping some of those students
that is that you can't define success. Perhaps to see, to gauge students' learning on those catch up.
this is a job that you haven't had before in the technical skills. But it would be very hard to  But then you also had the control problem,
past. And so you can't tell the difference administer a test that actually measures the where the teacher never really had control over
between a good output and a poor output. In students' creativity or their ability to cooperate the quality of the students when they came into
other words, we find it hard, difficult to with others. that class.
benchmark these jobs and to find success. Kind  And so since it's difficult to measure those other  Let's take another example from factory piece
of our lesson here is that we want to benchmark things that we also want teachers to be rates. So in a factory, if you're paying a piece
low short-term incentives, or low target imparting to their students, we end up having rate, that is, a dollar value for every unit that
incentives for low performance, and high short- an alignment problem when we design these they produce, then quality might suffer. That's
term incentives for high performance. And to do tests. And that leads to things such as teachers because you're paying for quantity, but you're
that, of course, we need to be able to define teaching to the test, as opposed to teaching expecting both quantity and also quality. And so
if we look at the measurement problem, we're that are outside of the worker's control, problems as they arise themselves. And again,
saying that we can't, and so kind of related is because they're only getting those poor inputs this is, in itself, a very productive, potentially
the measurement problem. We may not be able from somewhere else. very productive activity.
to keep track of the numbers that workers  And so kind of the big idea here is, again, short-
produce. And it might also be very difficult to term incentives are only one element of the pay Video 3: Diseñar incentivos
measure the quality of the items that they mix. And is also, we can include multiple  Welcome back. In this video, we're talking about
produce as well. That's why, to solve the different short-term incentives as part of our designing short term incentives. First of all
measurement problem, we also might have to whole short-term incentive package. So for remember, when we're designing these short
have some sort of a way of using serial numbers example, a piece rate where we're just paying term incentives we're talking about taking key
or something to track the quality of the items as workers per unit they produce might have performance indicators and mapping those onto
they come down the assembly line. That way we quality concerns, as workers allocate their effort pay. So here we're going to put our key
can solve that alignment problem. Now we get more toward quantity of production. And so one performance indicators which can include
to metering control. Our metering problem thing we can do is, we can incorporate piece profits, revenues, units produced, units sold,
might be that for a specific task, we can't define rates into a plan that also includes bonuses for evaluation scores or so on. And we're going to
good performance. So let's say that a worker quality. map that onto a graph with our key
perhaps gets a new piece of technology a new  Another big idea is that if we're introducing an performance indicators on our x axis and our
piece of equipment, and we find out that there's incentive, we also want to give workers the pay on our y axis.
a 2% defect rate on the items that they're ability to fix their own problems. So for  And just to start off, imagine that your pay does
producing. Now is that a good performance? example, in some cases, not depend on your performance. Well in this
Well, we don't necessarily know, because we  there could be a problem that seems to be case we can represent this through a flat line,
don't have experience with that item. We don't outside of a worker's control. But after the that is regardless of what your performance is
have experience with that new piece of capital. incentive is introduced, it's discovered that on those key performance indicators, he'll be
It could be the case that that 2% defect rate is worker could have at least some ways of earning the same flat pay rate.
very high or very low. But we just don't know, actually managing some of that risk. So for  So let's look at how we can kind of twist the
because we don't have good data on that yet. example, there's a famous example of a rules here. So the first thing we can do is
Also, we have the question of control. Again, the company called Safelite Auto Glass. When they implement a pure piece rate. So here, as our key
control problem here would be that employees introduced an incentive to their workers for performance indicators go up, so too our pay
don't necessarily have control over the installing and repairing auto glass, they found does as well. And it goes up at the same rate,
workmanship of their inputs. So for example, if that there are some things that seemed to be that's why there's a straight line.
we're paying workers for the quantity that they outside of the worker's control. So for example,  So another thing that we can do is have some
produce and also for the quality of the items whether the customer was actually present combination of a bit guaranteed rate or a flat
that they produce, it could be challenging. after they called in the representative from rate for lower levels of performance. And then
Because perhaps the materials, perhaps the Safelite Auto Glass. also have a piecerate region that is after you've
steel that they're getting is defective or of low  But after the introduction of the incentive, some reached a certain performance level, then you
quality. Or if they are assembling cars, it could of the most savvy workers began to phone start to become eligible for a piecerate. One
be that the suppliers are giving them poor ahead to make sure that the customer was common thing that you'll see in organizations is
engines to put into their cars, and that's leading ready to have their car serviced. And so this is that they'll have a guaranteed pay rate for the
a lot of these cars to be returned to the just an example of how when introducing same amount of time. But after the employee
manufacturer. And again, these are for things incentives, you want to enable workers to fix gains experience or after the organization has
had some experience implementing that they produce. And also they'll also have a ceiling than 20 boxes in one day, they might not be
piecerate then they'll phase out the guaranteed meaning that their pay can't rise above a certain eligible for any short-term incentives. But for
rate by reducing it. level. So firms sometimes use ceilings to protect someone who meets the quota, who has
 That way they have a guaranteed pay rate that the firm against very large payouts typically for medium performance, who picks 30 boxes in
becomes lower than it had before, but also the things that are outside of their control. But one one day, they get their base pay and the also
piecerate kicks in sooner. That way the people of the potential disadvantages to using a ceiling may be eligible for an incentive of $20. And for
who are performing at the higher levels of Is that it does not encourage employees after the people who are the highest performers who
performance would still be eligible for the same they've reach that level. They typically don't pick the most boxes in one day, they might be
pay rates that they were before. only want to see ceilings are used in situations eligible for say $50 bonus. So we want to define
 So I have a guaranteed pay rate region. Well one where the firm thinks of that extremely high what low performance, medium performance
way we begin to think about this is thinking level of performance. But only be a result of and high performance and the dollar values that
about the purposes of a base pay as providing things that were outside of the employee's are associated with those. And so now a
insurance to workers. Remember workers tend control, then we also have accelerators. So question for you. So what is the target incentive
to more risk overs than their employers. And accelerators are represented by a set of lines or the target pay mix in this setting?
that means that workers for a given level of that are increasing in their slope. And the  So here what we would do is we would figure
expected pay would tend to want to avoid the reason why we use accelerators is essentially to out what is their base pay, $60 per day. Was the
risk of things that are for example outside of provide insurance at those lower accelerators or target in short term incentives for medium
their control. And so we can think about the those lower multipliers for those lower levels of percentages thus $20 per day. And so the pay
base pay as serving an insurance purpose, performance. But then we want to scale up and mix at target, it would be $60 base and $20 in
where as the piece rate region serves as an increase the rate at which we're paying those short term incentives. Or in other words, a 75,
incentive purpose, so those are piece rates. picerates, are paying those incentives as the 25 pay mix where that 75, 25 is the ratio
Another method that we can use is to give performance increases. And we call that an between base pay and short term incentives at
bonuses. Bonuses, in contrast with piece rates accelerated region. the target performance.
or commissions, or other forms of incentives are  So let's look at an example from strawberry  And so how would we represent this? Well, we
discreet jumps. So for example, let's say that pickers. could represent this in terms of a commission
you meet a quota then for meeting that quota  So the first thing we'll want to do for our schedule or an incentive schedule. So once
he might get a big bump in pay. That pay strawberry pickers is to benchmark their short again, we have our base rate at $60 per day.
corresponds to one's bonus, we can use it in term incentives. Our incentive, our piece rate will be set by that
combination. So for example, let's say that we  And so suppose that for our strawberry pickers schedule below. And we'll define our quota to
reach our quota, say that we are a factory flow we're paying them a base rate of $60 per day. be 30 boxes per day.
and you have produced 100 units in 1 day. Then And then we also want to pay them a short term  And so here what we did was we took our target
by producing 100 units in 1 day, we might be incentive. And so how are we going to do that? incentives, and at those different levels of
instantly be eligible for a bonus. And then also, Well first of all, again this goes back to the performance and we just put a straight line
we'll start earning a piecerates for every item metering problem, we want to define low between them. And so that would mean that
that we produce in addition to those 100 units performance, respectable performance, and between 0 boxes and 20 boxes, we're
that we produced. high performance. communicating that we pay a short term
 Some incentive plans also feature ceilings. So  So here our target short term incentives for incentive of $0 per box. And then we want those
you'll have some sort of a piecerate region at those low performing workers might be some additional 10 boxes to be worth a total of $20 or
which the worker earns a given rate for units number below 20 boxes. If they produce fewer in other words, $2 per box. So our second rate
tier will have our, we'll be paying $2 per box.
And then for an additional 10 boxes after that Video 2: Stock options = ¿Opciones sobre
we'll want to scale that up. So our target acciones?
incentive will be 50, a total of $50 and so that 
mean, that implies that we're paying an 
additional $30 on top of those boxes and the 
other was $3 per box. We might further 
accelerate our incentives, pay $4 per box on the 
next 10 boxes, then after that, you might say 
that the ceiling at 50 boxes picked which we saw

paying piece rate. And so this is what that
incentive plan would look like on our graph. And
so here we can say that between 0 and 20 boxes Video 2: Ejemplos de incentivos a largo plazo
picked, there is a flat base pay that's paid out 
but there's no short term incentives. And then 
between 20 and 50 boxes picked, that's an 
accelerated region. That is we're paying $2 per 
box on the first 10 boxes, then $3 per box on 
the next 10, and then $4 on the 10 after that. 
And then after a few boxes are picked we're no
longer paying a short term incentive, and so
then we've reach the ceiling. So we reach the
pay floor, then we have an accelerated region
and then lastly we have a ceiling.
 And remember all of these design
considerations assumes that the jobs that we're
looking at are good candidates for a short term
incentive. Thanks, and I'll see you next time.

Clase 3 – Incentivos a largo plazo

Video 1: Variedades en incentivos a largo plazo








SEMANA 4 – Alinear el reclutamiento y la Video 1: Incorporación es el comienzo de tu Video 2: Conversar con el nuevo contratado
selección a la estrategia de la compañía relación de trabajo antes de comenzar
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Clase 1 – Introducción al curso  
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Video 1: Acerca de Stacy Doepner-Hove y la  
 
definición de incorporación / inducción


Video 2: Crear las herramientas para que la 

 incorporación sea más fácil
  Video 3: Trabajar con tu equipo actual
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Video 2: Incorporación como parte del

compromiso del trabajador
Video 4: Instalar un ambiente de bienvenida


Video 3: Presentar al nuevo trabajador 
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Video 3: El retorno de la inversión por hacer el 

proceso de inversión bien 
 Clase 3 – Estableciendo el escenario para el 

nuevo contrato
 Clase 4 – Más allá de la incorporación

 Video 1: Alistándote para el nuevo contrato
  Video 1: Crear un espacio de trabajo de
  compromiso
 
Clase 2 – Construir una gran experiencia de  
 
incorporación
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Video 2: Desarrollando a los empleados






Video 3: Dirección del desempeño y el nuevo


contrato





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