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Remuneration Brought Back to Basics

Erste Group Bank AGMichiel van den BergHead of Group Remuneration and Organization Effectiveness

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Outline of the session

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The Past

Considerations

2012

2014

2015

Roadmap

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Remuneration – 5 years ago

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Salary increase decision by a manager is a black-box.

Board Members did not know what direct reports earned and how salaries

relate to the market.Narrow salary bands.

Salary differences of up to 4 times between employees on

the same job.

Lack of benchmark data.No structure and no

explainable difference in total reward.

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Issues in focus – performance, reward, work environment

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Business needs and priorities change faster than annual goals assigned to employees.

Real-time discussions with employees are more valuable than year-end evaluations.

Focus, direction and intensity of performance discussions is currently more on the past than on the future.

Job, skill and performance rating instead of creating an environment to engage, develop and perform.

Discussions focus more on execution of today‘s priorities instead of the future.

Limitations in access, transparency (understanding) and availability of information/knowledge.

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Remuneration – further considerations

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01 Reward develops with the person.

Person’s experience and qualifications influences current reward position.02

See reward as an investment – rather than a cost – based on fit and potential of the person.03

Give rewards that people value (based on their needs in stage of life).04

Reward value-driven business decisions that bring both profitability and sustainable growth.05

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Target – „remuneration in a nutshell“

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Specific and annually updated „merit increase“ proposals and

guidelines from HR to business.

Salary increase is a decision by manager based on contextual

data.

From To

Descriptions in salary bands and e.g. performance/development

matrixes.Contextual salary bands.

Calculated and distributed salary budgets.

PEREX / FTE / Headcount cost management.

Salary increases for all (or at least majority of employees –

water can approach).

Salary increase for selected individuals.

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Learnings

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Transparency in the process is essential.

Easy access to required data allows for flexible decisions.

Contextual data supports discussion regarding the future fit of the person as opposed to having a strong focus on the amount of salary increase.

A specific group of managers will never learn it, regardless of guidelines.

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Roadmap

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Context

Accessibility

Transparency

Many rules and guidelines for salary increases and bonus decisions

Context data for salary increases and bonus decisions

Context data for Total Reward decisions

2011

2015-16

2017-18