Reward & Recognition

Designing effective reward and recognition strategies to motivate and retain employees

Course Overview

This course provides learners with an understanding of reward and recognition and how compensation, benefits and non-financial recognition contribute to employee motivation, engagement and retention. Learners will explore total reward frameworks, pay benchmarking, gender pay gap reporting, flexible benefits, non-financial recognition programmes and the psychology of motivation. The course is suitable for HR professionals, managers and reward specialists.

Learning Outcomes

• Understand the components of a total reward framework
• Apply pay benchmarking and market positioning principles
• Understand gender pay gap reporting obligations
• Design effective flexible benefits programmes
• Apply non-financial recognition principles to improve engagement
• Understand the psychology of motivation and its link to reward
• Comply with equal pay and national minimum wage obligations

Course Structure (3 topics, 9 lessons)