4. Performance Management, Compensation, and Benefits

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Overview

Performance management enables supervisors and employees to work together to accomplish strategic objectives. Compensation and benefits include financial and non-financial goods and services employers offer to their employees.

Best Practices

Performance Management

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4.1 Design and implement a fair and unbiased employee performance management and appraisal system and process

Compensation

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4.2 Conduct salary gap analysis to determine if there are gender differences and adjust salaries to close identified gaps

Benefits

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4.3 Conduct equity and impact analysis of benefits, including usage/uptake of benefits

4.4 Ensure that benefits—such as medical coverage, tuition reimbursement and retirement savings—are equally accessible to male and female employees

4.5 Create working conditions that support improved reconciliation of work life and family life for women and men with care duties

4.6 Institute an inclusive employee health and wellness program to improve the health, well-being, and productivity to support all female and male employees

4.7 Establish an Employee Assistance Program (EAP) to support the mental and emotional health of female and male employees

4.8 Review infrastructure gaps to ensure that the workplace has adequate facilities to accommodate women