| CODE | CLS2106 | ||||||
| TITLE | Motivation and Compensation | ||||||
| UM LEVEL | 02 - Years 2, 3 in Modular Undergraduate Course | ||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 5 | ||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 4 | ||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Centre for Labour Studies | ||||||
| DESCRIPTION | This study unit enables student to examine the processes and practices associated with employee motivation and contemporary reward management. It draws from various theories and practices, and links skills, capabilities and performance to wages and other compensatory mechanisms. This unit also enables students to construct classification structures using job families based on employee skills and capabilities, in order to derive just reward solutions based on performance and merit. Study-unit Aims This study-unit covers the nature of employee motivation and the management of rewards. It examines current theory and practice and analyses motivation, performance and reward issues as well as addresses solutions to a number of challenges. The study-unit draws on a wide range of theories, models and practices deriving from disciplines including organizational psychology, management and sociology. It takes a pluralist, multi-stakeholder perspective to these areas. Learning Outcomes 1. Knowledge & Understanding: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - Evaluate the major theories of motivation in terms of employees and organisations - Analyse the concepts of merit-based pay and performance-based pay - Discuss the various forms of compensation - Identify the links between organizational strategy and compensation practices - Assess the social context of compensation practices. 2. Skills (including transferable [generic] skills): By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - Use job analysis data to evaluate jobs in relation to compensation - Link skills, capabilities and performance to wages and other compensation mechanisms - Construct classification structures using job families based on employee skills and capabilities - Build basic merit-based and results-based reward systems Main Text/s and any supplementary readings Main text: - Martocchio, J. (2010). Strategic Compensation: A Human Resource Management approach. USA: Pearson Education. |
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| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture and Independent Study | ||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Robert Delia |
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