Class 13

who are signing bonuses awarded to?

Top executives, upper management, middle management, and professional staff

Why organizations offer Signing bonuses?

• Beat competition

• Skirt internal salary equity practices

• Compensate you for foregone income

3 common procedural techniques

• Mediation

• Fact Finding

• Interest Arbitration

Mediation

• Widely used

• Used in collective bargaining process

• acts as a facilitator for the parties in the negotiation

• Relies heavily on their communications and persuasion skills

Role of the Mediator

• Assist the bargaining parties reach a settlement

• Narrowing parties differences over open issues

• Build trust levesl to obtain confidential bargaining information to better understand motives and limits

If interest based bargaining is used, the mediator will:

• Serve as a facilitator

• Assist parties in generating options

• Suggest the formation of subcommittees if appropriate

• Offer suggestions

• Be alert for signs that the process is reverting back to adversarial negotiation

The mediation Process in Collective Bargaining

1. Gain acceptability

2. Probing for potential compromises

3. Drive toward settlement

Fact Finding

• Gather facts

• Make reports or announcements

• Recommends appropriate settlement

• record success

• Resolve certain disputes

Interest Arbitration

• A settlement is imposed

• Common in the public sector; Rare in the private sector

• Commonly used in the public sector in the absence of the right to lockout and strike

• Rarely used in the private sector

• Hired to impose a settlement

• Empowered to set the terms of the contract

4 types of Interest Arbitration

1. Voluntary

2. Conventional

3. Compulsory

4. Final offer

Voluntary Arbitration

Parties agree to utilize if they can’t reach an agreement on their own

Conventional Arbitration

The arbitrator is free for craft an award without any restrictions

Compulsory Arbitration

Parties are required to use it if they can’t reach agreement on their own

Final Offer

The Arbitrator must choose either the Union’s or management’s last, best & Final offer

two arbitration that are used in the public sector

Compulsory and Final offer