Satisfação dos funcionários em relação a sistemas de remuneração por habilidades e competências

Abstract

Skills and competency based pay systems were developed as an alternative way of establishing employees' salaries in companies that underwent major changes in their organic structure and that perform in a changing and competitive environment. This work had the objective to assess the degree of employees' satisfaction to this new way of rewarding their contributions to organizational results. The study started with the contextualization of the remuneration systems, in inside and outside organizational environment. Then, it was based on theories and researches in organic structure, employees' work satisfaction, traditional application systems and skills and competency pay system in the arrangement of wages. The question raised in the study was Skills and competency based pay systems are instruments really effective for establishinging the employees' salaries?. This question was accomplished through the exploratory research with people that work in companies that use the skills and competency based pay systems. The choice of people was intentional and was made based on the Snow ball practice. The research was made with communication boarding and collected data though auto-administrate surveys. The research measurement used a scale with two extremes: completely agree and completely disagree to the constructs. The results are submitted demonstrating people agreement percentage with the constructs that determine the satisfaction or dissatisfaction degree on the skills and competency - based pay systems. To a better understand enjoy the research results, the constructs answered by participants were classified in: (a) system's concepts and theoretical basis; (b) system's objectives and its links with the organizational strategy; (c) system's management principles and; (d) system's perceived equity. These categories were valid to indentify the causes of skills and competency - based pay systems satisfaction or dissatisfaction.