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Variable Pay

Suman Shankar, Associate Director, Cerebrus Consultants and Zubin Mulla, Assistant Professor at Tata Institute of Social Sciences addressed challenges and questions on Variable Pay.

Variable Pay as part of a smart compensation strategy is on the rise in India ensuring better focus on performance.

Simran Oberoi, a Knowledge Advisor with SHRM India, answers some of the frequently asked questions on Variable Pay programme.

Using 'Carve-Outs' approach can help organizations live up to their aspirations to truly pay for performance and avoid creating an expensive and ineffective entitlement mindset about pay.

The best variable pay programmes are those that reflect the company’s particular business model and culture, rather than those which are copied from ‘best practice’ or industry standards.

Study shows that many companies aren’t executing their pay-for-performance strategy successfully.

"Pay for performance is a concept embraced by many but executed poorly by most,"says expert.

Variable pay is increasingly been used as an effective tool to communicate the linkage between individual performance and organization’s business objectives, as well as to drive and reward higher performance.

You spend a lot on incentive plans, so you'd better make sure youre getting your moneys worth.

Incentive plans should motivate employees to perform at a higher level, not encourage them to engage in questionable behavior.