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The notion that pay policy should be related to or vary with an organization’s business strategy is grounded in the research and professional literature on pay. It implies that the better the “fit” between pay policy and organization characteristics such as business strategy, the higher the organization performance. The model in Figure 1 shows that the “fit” between policy on the design and administration of pay and overall organization strategy, design and administration influence organization performance.
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Broderick, R.F. (1987). Pay Policy, Organization Strategy and Structure: A Question of “Fit”. In: Niehaus, R.J. (eds) Strategic Human Resource Planning Applications. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-1875-0_4
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