NEW AND IMPROVED REWARDS AT WORK 1 Running head: New and Improved Rewards at Work New and Improved Rewards at Works HRM 533 Total Rewards Dr. Mary Ann Wangemann Strayer University June 7, 2012 …show more content…
Employees who are required to do extensive travel will probably need more assistance than an employee whose job requires them to work out of the office or another facility near where the employee resides. Another innovative benefit for this specific job can be to offer to pay a certain percentage for childcare if the employee has children who attend day care or after school programs. This benefit can be very attractive as the cost for childcare continues to increase. In most cases, tailored benefits can make work life less stressful and a lot easier for employees whose personal life may keep them very busy. Many experts argue that tailored benefits can be worth as much to an employee as a pay raise. Different benefits appeal to different people. In order to understand people needs, employees must take in consideration age, gender, marital status, family size, health and level of education. In taking all of these in consideration, the company is able to design attractive benefits packages that will attract, retain and motivate employees. Innovative benefits helps to build value within the organization. If employees feel the company cares about their by well- being by consistently adding or making changes to benefits programs, they will in turn get more out of employees because employees should exceed the expectations of the job to earn pay while getting good
provide more money to the government with the increased tax revenue from all of the new
Also, companies save $150,000 to $250,000 in wages after a study was conducted between two companies (Employer-sponsored day care can be profitable, new study shows). In addition, corporations can us flex spending accounts to manage the cost of onsite childcare facilities by using pre-tax dollars for the child care (Offering child care as benefit?: pros and cons). There is a program by Congress called the “Childcare Credit” better known today as the “Right Start Child Care,” which provides employers a credit of 25% of the employers qualified child care expenses. It also guarantees the employer 10% credit of qualified child referral cost. The cost covers building or operating expenses, training of child care facility; and an outside day care facility to the company’s employees (Connell,
between the needs of the company and the needs of the employees, and should be enforced in a
Today people are looking for benefits what will help them manage their work-life life-styles better. Today, with the help of technology, employer is now starting to be more capable of offering flexible options with great results.
The term compensation refers to all forms of financial returns and tangible benefits that employees receive in exchange for their time, talents, efforts, performance, and results (Bernardin & Russell, 2013) Presumably, employees are motivated by the compensation they receive in all combinations to include their benefits packages. Naturally, employees want to be able to take care of their family to include having good medical coverage and other related benefits. Equity is said to occur when a person perceives that the ratio of his outcomes to his inputs is equal to other’s outcome/input ratio (Salvendy, 1976). Of course, employees want more money, and companies want more work out of each employee. With the cost of benefits like health insurance continuing to rise, companies have to take the higher cost of benefits into consideration when implementing pay
Offer a competitive benefits package that fits your employees’ needs. Providing health insurance, life insurance and a retirement-savings plan is essential in retaining employees and bonuses. But other perks, such as flextime and the option of telecommuting, go a long way to show employees you are willing to accommodate their outside lives.
Verizon Wireless may be losing at least one competitive advantage as a result of lack of knowledge about how employee benefits packages in the wireless industry compare. Studies have shown that valuable employees and top talent candidates are highly influenced by employee benefits packages considered to be good (Paterson, 2013). The leadership team’s determination and call for organizational growth, translates to both retaining current employees and enticing new candidates to join, an area in which a top employee benefits package is a major contributor. With this consideration, and factoring in the problem of a lack of updated information, it was determined that there was a critical need for a current benefits package comparison. The
--Finally, some opine that employee pay should be tied in part to the compensation of the owner/chief operating or executive officer of the business, with the lowest paid employee being paid no less than a certain
An onsite Daycare is a place directly located at the employers of parents with toddlers or babies who need full time child care while their parents are at work. It allows the parents the advantage of being close to their children while still being able to maintain stability with their careers.
From an employee's perspective, the mandatory benefits should be funded. Mandatory benefits such as health care, workers compensation, social security, family and medical leaves, retirement plans, etc. Some of these benefits are not only offered
want a higher minimum wage. Today minimum wage workers are in charge of making money for
The bivariate results show that each of the aggregated childcare use variables have positive significant relationships with PQECEC. On average, the less difficult the cost, availability, access and quality, the more positive users’ PQECEC. The four multivariate analyses also show that a significant positive effect of welfare state defamilization indicators become non-significant while aggregated childcare use variables are still highly significant and positive, supporting our previous
Employers elect to build and run their own child care facility at the workplace. This options is the most convenient and attractive for employees. In one study, at two separate facilities, the child care centers reported long waiting list, even if the cost was higher or the same as the local economy. Furthermore, employees who could have used a family provided care, at substantial less cost, chose to utilize the on-site care (Connelly, Degraff, & Willis, 2002). This option has all of the benefits of the FSAs and a few added benefits. However, this option comes with some inherent
Employee Benefits: The Company should consider and perform a cost benefit analysis for offering better benefits for employees.
Most health care analyst believes that health benefits provided by employers are provided as part of the overall compensation paid to workers. Because of the rising cost of the health care benefits, employers’ shares of