Most
professional organizations ensure that, in their organizations they maintain and
sustain internal and external equity in order to maintain employees' moral and
sense of fairness in managing employees.
For
internal equity in the organization, internal bench marking studies and job evaluation
studies ensure fair and consistent value for each job.
For
external equity, the organizations have to scan external environment to ensure
that their employees are not unduly affected. One of the key functions in this
area is to benchmark existing salaries, benefits and HR practices with the comparable
organizations .The process of doing this exercise is called Compensation Survey.
The
Compensation Survey is generally sponsored by a company; or few companies may
initiate a joint exercise. In view of the fact that most organizations are not
willing to share their confidential data to the rival company and the process
of conducting compensation survey is very time consuming, this process is generally
assigned to specialized agency to conduct such surveys.
We
at MAP have developed an expertise and experience in conducting compensation surveys
in diverse industry groups.
The
sponsored compensation survey is based on the needs of the sponsoring company,
which may get reflected in the business, organization structure and key issues,
key positions, its benchmark companies and its analysis requirements. Based on
their needs, we develop a survey design, which is to be approved by the client
company.
Based
on this survey design, we develop a questionnaire, which again gets approved by
the client company. Thereafter client company announces its plan to its comparable
companies to do a survey by appointing the consulting company.
We
follow up with our request to the proposed participating companies to participate
in the exercise by sharing their data on our questionnaire. Our consultants assist
the participating companies in position comparison and completion of questionnaire
.Our consultants then review the data and validate it to ensure accuracy and consistency.
The
consulting team then collates, analyses and prepares the report for the client
company based on the needs of the client. The participant's copy is also developed
and dispatched to the participants.
We
also make post report submission presentation to the sponsoring
company to highlight main findings and assist them to draw effective
conclusions and action plan.