Employers reluctant to pay for competencies

COMPETENCE-RELATED PAY

Employers reluctant to pay for competencies

Half of employers surveyed by IRS have introduced competency frameworks but only three in ten of these have created a link with reward.

By far the most common means of rewarding levels of competence is to use existing individual performance-related pay process. But just one in 12 have "taken the radical step of changing their reward practices so that they are exclusively focused on levels of competence," says IRS.

Ways of rewarding competence

Incorporated into performance-related pay

41%

Consolidated into annual pay increase

21%

Wholly competency-related pay scheme

8%

Competency-related bonus

7%

Sample size = 145 organisations.

Source: IRS.

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Title: "Reward journal investigates competency pay", by Neil Rankin, Competency & Emotional Intelligence, Winter 2004/05.

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