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proper records. The system should control costs, comply with the statutes and be easy to<br />

administer.<br />

4.7. Wage Fixation<br />

Wage is fixed based on the value <strong>of</strong> the amount fixed by wage boards, cost <strong>of</strong> living in the<br />

locality, productivity shown and promised by workers, work to the organization, the<br />

scarcity <strong>of</strong> the skill in the labor market, the difficulties in the job that determine the<br />

number <strong>of</strong> people willing to undertake the job, the affordability <strong>of</strong> the employer, the extent<br />

<strong>of</strong> prosperity in the industry in a given period and based on the bargaining power <strong>of</strong> the<br />

workers and their unions. Wage-Productivity relationship is ordinarily taken as a rational<br />

basis for wage revision. An increase in output per unit <strong>of</strong> labor is always a ground for<br />

workers to press their claim for higher wages as their due share <strong>of</strong> the rise in pr<strong>of</strong>its.<br />

Wages may be <strong>of</strong> two types such as time rate and piece rate. They are fixed with<br />

the help <strong>of</strong> industrial engineering and Personnel departments and are administered by the<br />

payroll departments, according to the provisions <strong>of</strong> the payment <strong>of</strong> wages law at rates<br />

equal to or above the minimum wage law. Equal remuneration for equal work without any<br />

discrimination on grounds <strong>of</strong> gender has been guaranteed by the law. Wage laws insist that<br />

wage be paid in cash and not in kind. They also state that the maximum permissible wage<br />

period would be thirty days. They even specify the list <strong>of</strong> deductions permissible, subject<br />

to a ceiling. Recovery <strong>of</strong> loans, contributions towards social security measures like<br />

Provident Fund and Employees’ insurance, damages recoverable from the employees for<br />

loss incurred due to the person by the employer, etc. are some <strong>of</strong> the authorized<br />

deductions.<br />

4.8. Incentive Schemes<br />

The term ‘Incentive’ means inducements <strong>of</strong>fered in order to get better outputs from<br />

people. Incentive schemes are used to enhance the motivation level by tapping the<br />

ambitions <strong>of</strong> the employees to earn more. Incentives tend to influence individuals to<br />

stretch their capacities and personal objectives and carry out special tasks and take<br />

initiative. Incentives become necessary because people with less ability to perform a<br />

specific task but stronger will or motivation are able to perform better than people with<br />

superior ability and lack <strong>of</strong> will. Group incentives have the potential to harness individual<br />

efforts towards greater teamwork and synergy.<br />

4.9 JOB EVALUATION

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