Mercer Learning – courses for HR professionals

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• Total rewards framework and pay philosophy
• Key principles for organizing and structuring compensation elements
• Overview of 3P compensation concept - pay for position, person & performance
• Understanding of basic compensation terminologies and how to use survey data
• Compensation analysis and review
• Focus on pay for position – overview on job evaluation, grade design and pay structure design
• Implementation guidelines

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• Understand the differences between a role and a job
• Learn the steps to role analysis
• Fundamentals of job evaluation & principles of conducting evaluation interviews
• Science of structure & Mercer's point of view on future of job evaluation
• Application of organisation sizing & impact on job evaluation outcomes
• Detailed understanding of Mercer IPE methodology
• Practice exercise of conducting evaluation across all 5 factors & 13 dimensions of IPE
• Overview on applications of job evaluation across HR & organisational processes

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In the era of big data, MS Excel is one of the key tools for different types of analysis. Mercer’s Excel workshop was specifically designed with HR professionals in mind. In this workshop, you will develop skills on how to manage HR data efficiently and perform various calculations with ease and confidence.

• Compile and analyze Compensation and Benefits data from multiple sources
  
• Determine salary mid-point by data regression, minimum and maximum of salary ranges and pay adjustment
• Algorithm, logical and text operations, sorting and filtering, charts and lookup functions in MS Excel

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Learn the scope of HR analytics and how it benefits the organisation. We will walk you through a road map for effectively leveraging metrics and analytics in your organisation. Focusing on interpretation, deriving solutions and/or actionable insights from data, you will learn about data visualisation and how to tell a story with data.

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How do we update our compensation plan? Do you look internally or externally? Understand the objectives and rationale for conducting analysis and updates of compensation plans. And learn insights into the tools and data requirements. Understand Mercer’s approach and process for measuring external competitiveness, internal equity and the relationships between performance and compensation. We will look at the implications of the measurement findings for making changes in the compensation strategy, policies, programmes and actions.

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Hands-on practical skills needed to perform actual salary structure design by looking at the market data, internal progression requirements as well as grades. This workshop is designed to supplement theoretical and technical knowledge of grade levelling, salary structure design and addressing challenges in implementing pay ranges across levels for attracting and retaining the modern workforce.

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• The purpose and context of variable pay and pay-mix
• Applying basic short-term incentive design principles to your organisation, and calibration of results to rewards
• What are key performance considerations
• Reviewing the returns on the incentive spend

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• Analysis of sales role and how to determine if they should participate in the sales incentive plan
• Setting of target pay levels, determination of mix between fixed and variable pay and establishing upside earning opportunities
• Selection of right performance measures

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Learn about various tools and software that can help you facilitate data analysis. Experience working with real life data and learn how to transform data into usable format before conducting any analysis. Understand the different forms of textual data in Human Resources and basics sentiment analysis.

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Framework and Guiding Principles for Total Rewards Strategy

• Understanding the need of designing a Total Rewards structure in view of workforce of the future
• Connecting Total Rewards strategy with organisational strategy
• Learn to develop an effective Total Rewards strategy for the diverse and segmented employee workforce
• Reviewing different components of Total Reward

Design of Total Rewards Vehicles, Implementation and Communication

• Vehicles of Total Rewards structure
• Mercer’s approach for Total Rewards program implementation 
• Effective communication of Total Rewards programs
• Practical case studies and exercises across implementing Total Rewards components that fits in your culture

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Job evaluation drives a broader organisation objectives from talent development, organisation design, compensation framework design, performance management framework. This workshop aims at providing perspectives on various applications of job evaluation using Mercer’s IPE, including how to calibrate jobs, create job matrix, market benchmarking, design internal grade levels, title frameworks, link to reward program design, etc.

The focus shall be to equip you to apply the IPE methodology as a foundation for the HR interventions in your organisation and help you through case studies and group discussions.

Note: This is an advanced level and a basic understanding of job evaluation and Mercer’s Position International Evaluation system (IPE factors & dimensions) is required.