How to Ensure the Success of Your Variable Pay Program
Evolving from a base pay environment to variable rewards is a significant cultural change for your organization, and there are a myriad of environmental, design, implementation and communication challenges that must be identified and addressed. If you're thinking about a new variable pay program but aren’t sure what to do, or if you have a plan operational but it‘s not motivating employees in the way you’d like, this presentation can help, as it offers a specific methodology to use and a series of structured steps to follow. The speaker demonstrates his pragmatic eight-step variable pay design approach, 10 criteria for success for variable pay, and variable rewards template that can be tailored for your organization.
Learning Objectives:
- The issues and challenges to address and resolve when evolving your organization from base pay to variable rewards.
- Proven tools for designing, implementing and communicating an organization-wide variable pay program: a step-by-step methodology, template, and 10 success criteria.
John A. Rubino, CCP, CBP, GRP, WLCP

John A. Rubino, SHRM-SCP, CCP, CBP, GRP, WLCP, is founder and president of Rubino Consulting Services, a global human resources consulting company based in Pound Ridge, New York. His areas of expertise cover all areas of Human Resources program design. An internationally acclaimed speaker for SHRM and WorldatWork, John is the author of numerous human resources articles, and is frequently quoted in professional publications. He holds BA and MBA degrees, as well as a lifetime Achievement Award from WorldatWork. John works with a wide variety of organizations and his consulting practice takes him all around the world; in fact, he has visited one hundred and nine countries!
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