Managing, rewarding & engaging employees



Mercer’s talent-related capabilities include our Broad-based Performance and Rewards and Workforce Strategies services within our Human Capital business.

Broad-based performance and Rewards

Through our Broad-based performance and Rewards consulting, we help leading organizations achieve the greatest return on their compensation investments. Leveraging our extensive global team of compensation experts, globally consistent methodologies, proprietary Web-based software tools and global data resources, we work with clients to design and implement practical, tailored solutions that strategically allocate total compensation resources, align with business strategy and link employee rewards to business performance.

Mercer’s Broad-based Performance and Rewards consulting focuses on:

• Aligning reward programs with business needs and priorities

  and employees’ values and preferences within corporate cost constraints

• Maximizing the return on reward program investments by holistically considering pay, benefits and careers as part of the total rewards strategy
• Supporting the globalization of business operations through consistent total reward programs and processes

Principal capabilities within Broad-based performance and Rewards include:

• Compensation strategy and design (including incentive plans and reward program governance)
• Mercer’s Total Rewards that Work^TM strategy and analytical tools that consider employees' pay, benefits and career opportunities

• Work measurement and pay administration
• Sales effectiveness and sales compensation design
• Compensation management co-sourcing

Workforce Strategies

Through our Workforce Strategies consulting, we help organizations build effective workforces that drive better business results. Our integrated approach relies on systems thinking, fact-based decisions and a focus on the people and practices that uniquely create value. We leverage our proprietary tools and methodologies and global experience to give each client a customized, actionable blueprint for shaping and keeping the right workforce to execute their business strategy, optimize their workforce investments and implement shifts in talent management practices to build a sustainable competitive advantage through their people.

Mercer’s Workforce Strategies consulting focuses on:

• Building effective workforces to drive globalization, growth and business success
• Quantifying the impact of workforce programs on business results
• Developing the talent management processes to support leadership, workforce and business design objectives

Principal capabilities within Workforce Strategies include:

• Human capital / talent management / people strategy
• Human capital metrics and measurement
• Workforce planning
• Organization, role and competency design and analysis
• Leadership assessment, development and succession
• Performance management
• Learning and development
• Site selection and employee mobility
• Career planning and management
• Engagement, employment brand and culture change
• Retention and turnover management
• Attraction, sourcing and selection
• Diversity compliance (pay equity) and management