Functional Area 4. Compensation and Benefits

PHR Test Content: 20%

SPHR Test Content: 14%

Definitional Framework:

Benefits: Noncash, or indirect, rewards provided to employees in recognition of and in exchange for the performance of their jobs.

Compensation: Cash-based rewards provided to employees in recognition of and in exchange for the performance of their jobs.

Total rewards: Total rewards speaks to HR’s responsibility to ensure that the organization’s total compensation and benefits programs, policies, and practices reinforce and support the short-term, long-term, and emerging and strategic objectives of the organization.

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