Manage reward and recognition strategies

URN: INSHR004
Business Sectors (Suites): Human Resources
Developed by: Instructus
Approved on: 2025

Overview

This standard is about managing reward and recognition strategies. It includes planning, implementing and evaluating affordable reward and recognition systems, ensuring their fair application across the organisation and making recommendations for change.

This standard is for HR professionals who are involved in the management of reward and recognition strategies.


Performance criteria

You must be able to:

  1. research current and emerging trends, innovations and best practice relating to reward and recognition systems
  2. carry out benchmarking exercises to inform proposals for market positioning
  3. identify the demographic risks to your organisation
  4. develop reward and recognition systems in line with relevant legislation and equality strategy
  5. manage the governance process for executive-level pay matters
  6. collect and prepare relevant information and recommendations to committees responsible for executive-level pay matters
  7. provide data and information for external stakeholders, regulators and shareholders
  8. manage the reward matters of unique employees
  9. deliver annual and on-going reward and recognition programmes
  10. apply reward and recognition systems across the whole organisation
  11. support managers with reward and recognition decisions
  12. assist with resolving any issues arising from these decisions
  13. collect reward and recognition data and align it with relevant legislation
  14. seek feedback on reward and recognition systems to inform their continuous improvement
  15. identify legislative changes that may impact reward and recognition systems
  16. review and evaluate the costs and benefits of the reward and recognition package
  17. make recommendations for change

Knowledge and Understanding

You need to know and understand:

  1. your organisational strategies, values, goals and objectives
  2. the sectors in which your organisation operates and the market factors impacting on its performance
  3. how reward and recognition strategies align with the organisation’s values and culture
  4. the sources of specialist information and expertise and how to access it
  5. how to identify current and emerging trends, innovations and best practice relating to reward and recognition systems
  6. how to carry out benchmarking exercises and use the outcomes to make proposals for market positioning
  7. the demographic risks that apply to the organisation
  8. how to address pay disparities
  9. how to develop reward and recognition systems to attract and retain ‘flight risk’ groups
  10. the range of financial and non-financial rewards
  11. your organisation’s balance sheet and the impact of reward costs
  12. how to develop reward and recognition systems
  13. the governance process in relation to executive-level pay matters
  14. the information required by committees responsible for executive-level pay matters
  15. the data and information required by external stakeholders, regulators and shareholders
  16. the methods of stakeholder management and engagement
  17. how to manage reward and recognition matters of unique employees
  18. how to deliver annual and on-going reward and recognition programmes
  19. how apply reward and recognition systems across the whole organisation
  20. the supporting techniques for managers with reward and recognition decisions
  21.  the methods of resolving the issues reward and recognition decisions
  22. the types of data and its compliance with relevant legislation and compliance
  23. how to elicit feedback on reward and recognition systems
  24. the methods of analysis and interpretation of the data
  25. the sources of information on legislative changes
  26. how to review and evaluate reward and recognition packages
  27. the principles of agility, continuous improvement and business partnering needs
  28. the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) practices
  29. the relevant data protection regulation

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Scope Performance


Scope Knowledge


Values


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Skills


Glossary


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Version Number

1

Indicative Review Date

2030

Validity

Current

Status

Original

Originating Organisation

Instructus

Original URN

CFAHR10

Relevant Occupations

Personnel, Training and Industrial Relations Managers , Personnel and industrial relations officers

SOC Code

4136

Keywords

Human resources; HR; reward; recognition strategies; reward systems