MODULE 3 - Global Compensation & Benefits Flashcards
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Allowances
Compensation provided to meet individual needs; includes additions to salary to cover expenses for housing, transportation, meals, or the increased cost of goods and services in an international assignment.
Acquisition
Situation in which one organization acquires assets takes over the full operation of another organization.
Balance sheet compensation strategy
Compensation approach that seeks to preserve the purchasing power of an employee assigned from one country to another country by balancing the differences various categories of expenditures between the two countries.
Benefits
Tangible payments or services provided to broad groups of employees to cover common issues, such as those related to retirement, private health coverage, sick pay/disabilities schemes, life insurance, and paid time off.
Brownfield operation
Situation in which a company or government entity purchases or leases existing production facilities to launch a new production activity.
Cafeteria compensation system
Form of compensation in which HR managers select those assignment components that work best for their program (based on cost and/or availability of town).
Commuter assignments
Assignments in which employees live in one country and work in another country by regularly commuting across borders to perform different aspects of their jobs while their families remain at home.
Compensation
All financial returns and tangible services, including salary, allowances, and incentives.
Danger premium
Additional incentive provided by an employer and the employee is assigned to a location in which there are risks of bodily harm, such as those related to work, unstable political conditions, or other dangerous environments.
Defined benefit plan
Promise made by retirement plan guaranteeing that you specified amount later date, most often the day.
Defined contribution plan
Retirement plan specifies how much money is to be regularly contributed, but no promises are made regarding the future value of the benefit; amount of benefit at retirement will depend on the investment return.
Detached worker rule
Social Security rule that stipulates that, in the case of individuals at international Simon, home-country social security taxes will apply.
Differentials
Adjustments paid to make up for differences in home-and host-country cost-of-living.
Divestiture
Situation in which a company “spins off” a business division or subsidiary.
Efficient purchaser index (EPI)
Assumes that an assignee is no longer completely new to a location and has learned to purchase local versus imported items that cost less because of his or her increasing familiarity with the location; goods and services allowances is reduced at deployment or after a certain period of time.
Employee stock ownership plan (ESOP)
Type of plan that gives employees of shares in a company.
Equity compensation
Non-cash compensation that represents an ownership interest in the company.
Foreign service premium
Basic incentive provided by an employer to convince an employee to move to or from a country; also known as mobility premium.
Global employment companies (GECs)
Subsidiaries that multinational enterprises (MNEs) sometimes form to manage high performers and other types of employees who are not readily fit within the MNE’s traditional operations.
Greenfield operation
New operation built from the ground up by an organization, often in a new country, as a vehicle for global expansion.
Hardship premium
Additional incentive provided by an employer to convince an employee to move to a country where the living conditions are uncomfortable or difficult.
Incentives
Payments in return for the achievement of specific, time-limited, targeted objective; also known as premiums.
Job valuation
Determination of the value and price of a job to attract and retain employees in a competitive environment.
Job-content-based job evaluation
Type of evaluation in which the relative worth and pay opportunities of different jobs are based on assessment of their content (e.g., responsibilities and requirements) and their relationship to other jobs within the organization.