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:
- research current and emerging trends, innovations and best practice relating to reward and recognition systems
- carry out benchmarking exercises to inform proposals for market positioning
- identify the demographic risks to your organisation
- develop reward and recognition systems in line with relevant legislation and equality strategy
- manage the governance process for executive-level pay matters
- collect and prepare relevant information and recommendations to committees responsible for executive-level pay matters
- provide data and information for external stakeholders, regulators and shareholders
- manage the reward matters of unique employees
- deliver annual and on-going reward and recognition programmes
- apply reward and recognition systems across the whole organisation
- support managers with reward and recognition decisions
- assist with resolving any issues arising from these decisions
- collect reward and recognition data and align it with relevant legislation
- seek feedback on reward and recognition systems to inform their continuous improvement
- identify legislative changes that may impact reward and recognition systems
- review and evaluate the costs and benefits of the reward and recognition package
- make recommendations for change
Knowledge and Understanding
You need to know and understand:
- your organisational strategies, values, goals and objectives
- the sectors in which your organisation operates and the market factors impacting on its performance
- how reward and recognition strategies align with the organisation’s values and culture
- the sources of specialist information and expertise and how to access it
- how to identify current and emerging trends, innovations and best practice relating to reward and recognition systems
- how to carry out benchmarking exercises and use the outcomes to make proposals for market positioning
- the demographic risks that apply to the organisation
- how to address pay disparities
- how to develop reward and recognition systems to attract and retain ‘flight risk’ groups
- the range of financial and non-financial rewards
- your organisation’s balance sheet and the impact of reward costs
- how to develop reward and recognition systems
- the governance process in relation to executive-level pay matters
- the information required by committees responsible for executive-level pay matters
- the data and information required by external stakeholders, regulators and shareholders
- the methods of stakeholder management and engagement
- how to manage reward and recognition matters of unique employees
- how to deliver annual and on-going reward and recognition programmes
- how apply reward and recognition systems across the whole organisation
- the supporting techniques for managers with reward and recognition decisions
- the methods of resolving the issues reward and recognition decisions
- the types of data and its compliance with relevant legislation and compliance
- how to elicit feedback on reward and recognition systems
- the methods of analysis and interpretation of the data
- the sources of information on legislative changes
- how to review and evaluate reward and recognition packages
- the principles of agility, continuous improvement and business partnering needs
- the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) practices
- the relevant data protection regulation
Scope/range
Scope Performance
Scope Knowledge
Values
Behaviours
Skills
Glossary
Links To Other NOS
External Links
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