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Reward

The Work Foundation has a long track record of researching pay and reward issues. This includes work on pay architecture – the grading system, base pay structures and pay progression – as well as on aspects of variable rewards, such as performance pay, team pay and competency pay.

We advise employers whose pay structures need an overhaul or where the approach to grading may not reflect the new roles and tasks that the organisation needs to perform. We also contributed to the thinking underpinning Will Hutton’s Fair Pay Review and we continue to speak at events and workshops on pay and reward issues.

Related Reports

Are we heading for a fairer workplace?
A paper written by Will Hutton for the annual debate arguing that workplace fairness is key to giving businesses new legitimacy and to engaging employees.

Will Hutton
01 June 2010

Reward and reform
For most organisations and unions, designing and implementing an employee reward structure that meets both parties' needs, avoids unnecessary complexity and can accommodate government demands has proved elusive.

Stephen Bevan and Louise Horner
01 January 2003

Related Blogs

Why are wages so low?
An analysis of the various factors as to why wages are so low.

Ian Brinkley
18 April 2013

“Just holding my head above water” – the true picture of life for the public sector worker
In recent years the rhetoric from conservative politicians and commentators seems intent on driving a wedge between public and private sector workers. The truth is that economic hardships are not confined to either public or private sector.

Gavin Edwards National Officer at UNISON
26 June 2012

Coalition Government sets cap on ‘excessive’ incomes
You could be forgiven for being unfamiliar with Section 953(b) of the 2010 Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. In fact, if you are familiar with it, you really should get out more.

Prof Stephen Bevan
24 January 2012

Related News

The Work Foundation 2011 Annual Debate: The National Happiness Index - Work will either make or break it but is it a meaningless measure?
In the second year of The Work Foundation Annual Debate, we tackled a subject that remains a contentious talking point as, for the first time, the government and The Office of National Statistics attempted to measure the UK’s happiness levels. The work is still ongoing and due to be revealed in 2012.

06 January 2011