Total Compensation Plan: Duplox Copiers Canada Limited Strategy

This report details a total compensation strategy for Duplox Copiers Canada Limited, focusing on performance pay and indirect pay programs. The performance pay program aims to improve recruitment, employee retention, and individual performance through salary increments and rewar...Read More

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Performance Pay for Duplox Copiers Canada Limited
This is a strategy by which assessment of individuals and their organizations majorly
influence payment and bonuses given to employees, (Passing the big test: Calibrating
performance). Yes, I will have a performance pay program which will comprise of the
following;
Setting the culture which supports performance pay programs and management that is
ready to change towards performance pay. Setting goals for performance pay such as improved
recruitment and employee retention in the technical service department, increase the rate of
individual and employee performance and lastly improve fairness in compensation to achieve
employee satisfaction.
Who to pay for performance. All employees who work hard to attain good results will
receive a salary increment, employees at the top levels like the sales managers and employees
who are at the frontline like the technical service specialists
The timing for performance pay implementation. This will be done at different stages
where employees who do exemplary work are rewarded for example in the technical service
department. Other performance pay will be added on salaries of the technical service workers at
the end of the month
What to reward. Department such as accounting, finance and the technical service
department which perform better. All individuals who worked as a team to get exemplary results
will be rewarded.

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How the employees will be rewarded. The employees will be evaluated and if they
perform better, for example, the technical service specialists on their specific activities then there
will be an increase in term of their base pay. The pay to be awarded upon performance whereby
performance pay rate will be 30 per cent of their individual salaries.
This program will help Duplox Copier Canada limited in tailoring the employees towards
achieving the organization's mission and goals. This program will enable the poor performers to
be persuaded to attain more results so as to get better rewards and this will benefit the
organization. The average performers will end up receiving a small amount of increase and they
will be persuaded by this program to do exemplary work and in return, help increase the
organization's productivity, (Springer, 2009). The employees with outstanding performance will
end up receiving great rewards so as to acknowledge their larger contribution and this will
motivate them to continue with their superior performance. It also helps in improving the
individual performance and effort which in return improves performance, (Nikolaou 2015).
Indirect Pay Program
Indirect payments are the benefits which are given to the employees which have financial
value but is not in monetary form, (the United States, 2013). This program will help in attracting
and retaining talented employees. What to include in the indirect pay program include: Health
insurance, life insurance of employees, the retirement benefits, social security, laptops, company
cars, mobile phone for the company, housing benefits, leave policy and leave pay, overtime
payments, flexible working hours and childcare, (Hopkins &Blazek 2017).

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The indirect pay program will be the same for each employee in the company in that the
benefits will be calculated in their salaries as an extra component. Indirect pay program will go
directly to employees for their services that they render into the organization.
Indirect pay program will help Duplox Copiers Canada limited in attracting and retaining
good talents and skills. This program will help retain the passive employees who are satisfied
with their workers compensation but can leave the organizations if they are given better offers.
Indirect pay will give the employees an opportunity to grow. This program will help in
rewarding employees in a fairer way since they are the big contributors to organizations
performance.
Plan for Implementing the New Compensation System
In order to implement the new compensation system, the organization needs to set clear
and realistic goals so as to facilitate the implementation of the system, (Koss & society of human
resource management.). The pay system should be able to fit the circumstances and needs of
Duplox Copiers Canada limited. The organization should first be ready for the new
compensation system in order to facilitate its implementation. The organization should obtain
enough funding so as to ensure fairness before the new compensation program is put in place.
The organizational culture should be changed in order to fit the new compensation system. There
should be a good alignment between the human resource and the new compensation system. This
alignment should be in terms of recruitment, selection and performance assessment of the
employees, (Bolle & Shayler 2017). Strengthening and putting more attention in the human
resource system will help create a performance-based system which will help in making the
organization to be more effective.

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In moving the employees into the new plan The sales managers and the four field service
managers (supervisors) need to play a major role in performance settings by translating the goals
of the organizations into the objectives that employees need to achieve. In order to move the
employees well into the new system, the organization will have to get a high level of supervisory
knowledge. The managers pay will be linked to how well they perform their duties in terms of
managing the employees in the new compensation programs.
The new compensation plan will be communicated to everyone through training whereby
every supervisor and employee will be informed about their duties. Through training, the
employees will able to know the rules and procedures under which the new system operates and
this promotes a shared understanding between the supervisors and employees in terms of
outcomes and behaviours.
How to Evaluate the Effectiveness of the Plan
In order to evaluate the effectiveness of the new compensation plan, I will measure the
attitudes of employees in terms of motivation and engagement. The other thing is to track and
analyze the employees’ outcomes in order to determine how the new compensation plan is
affecting the employees in terms of satisfaction and performance. This will help the organization
in assessing the progress in relation to the organization success with the new compensation plan,
(McDavid, Huse & McDavid). The other way to assess the effectiveness of the plan is to look at
the employee turnover rates if there is improvement or decline especially in the part of technical
service specialists.

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