For a variable pay plan to be successful, the following factors are important:
- There should be enough financial resources available to kick start and sustain the variable pay plan.
- The variable pay plan needs to be consistent with the prevailing organizational culture (Belcher 232).
- It is important to ensure that there is a clear demarcation between, on the one hand, an organization’s base pay and on the other hand, the available payment plans.
- The management of an organization needs to ensure that the variable pay plans have been communicated to all employees within the organization.
- There is a need to ensure that an organization’s performance results are tied to the actual payouts given to the employees.
- There should be current, updated plans, to supplement the variable pay plans.
- The variable pay plans should lend themselves to measurable performance.
- It is important to ensure that the variable pay plans contain coherent and understandable plan details.
- The management needs to ensure that the variable pay plans translate into the desired behaviors.
- The variable pay plans need to be tied to the organizational objectives.
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