Saba COMPENSATION User Manual

Data Sheet

Saba Compensation

Beneﬁts

 Find and reward the most valued employees,

not just “high performers”

 Ensure spending is compliant with policies and

guidelines

 Increase retention by targeting spending on

pivotal talent and areas identiﬁed as risks

 Drive better business results by improving

employee engagement

Features

 Compensation dashboard with talent metrics

helps managers make smarter decisions

 Supports centralized and decentralized

processes for base and variable compensation management

 Automated reminders and clear

communication lighten the burden on HR

 Unsurpassed ﬂexibility regarding plan design

and eligibility

 Employee input into compensation preferences

furthers engagement

 The industry’s strongest global capabilities,

including support for 26 languages, multiple currencies and geographically conﬁgurable policies

 Choice of delivery models; in the Cloud or

on-premise

Compensation decisions are among the most critical decisions your organization makes. The ability to make the right decisions can be the difference between languishing as an under-performing organization struggling to retain and engage its workers, and standing out as an employer of choice with a high-performance culture. Unfortunately, many pay-for-performance initiatives have failed due to challenges incenting the right behavior, limitations in the information available to decision-makers, and a lack of insight into workforce needs and plans.

Saba® Compensation is an innovative solution that drives smarter decisionmaking by providing a comprehensive view of employee success. Saba Compensation goes beyond simple pay-for-performance processes that focus solely on a formal review score. Instead, Saba empowers managers with multiple measures of employee success, both formal and informal, so that money is spent where it is needed most. This approach improves performance, productivity, and talent retention rates, ensuring your organization’s competitive advantage.

The Compensation Dashboard empowers managers and compensation professionals to make smarter decisions.

Make Smarter Decisions

Saba Compensation ties base and/or variable compensation directly to multiple measures of success, enabling the organization to incent the speciﬁc behavior and achievements necessary to reach organizational goals. Formal performance review information alone is just not enough to make smart decisions — the organization needs to fully understand the value of that employee to the business today and in the future. With the inclusion of Saba Impressions for real-time performance feedback from an employee’s network, Saba becomes the only solution that can weigh both formal and informal performance feedback to arrive at the ﬁnal performance score. In addition to this valuable metric, Saba Compensation goes beyond pay-

Data Sheet n Saba Compensation

for-performance by also providing access to a number of additional metrics that can help better inform decision-making. These metrics can include:

 Competency proﬁciency

 Potential rating

 Flight/retirement risk

 Position criticality

 Completion of development/learning

 Mentoring activity

 Community membership and participation

In addition, Saba Compensation provides granular eligibility rules and conﬁguration options that enable any element in the employee proﬁle — including conﬁgurable sections that organizations can deﬁne themselves — to be used in determining plan eligibility. Managers are also empowered with advanced support during the allocation process, including market comparisons, ability to view their allocations by plan or by team, real-time allocation updates, and the ability to set aside budget for future use. They can even choose to delegate budget distribution to their management reports, providing your organization with comprehensive support for decentralized decision-making.

Motivate, Not Just Measure

Measuring performance and making compensation-allocation decisions accordingly can help motivate and retain your workforce. But are you motivating the right behavior in your workforce? If compensation decisions are based on incomplete information, and are only looked at once a year,

the answer is probably no. With Saba Compensation, multiple measures of success provide input to the manager at any time of the year. This “always on” compensation directly motivates employees to adopt and engage in ongoing processes such as goal setting, development planning, competency development, and mentoring programs.

In addition, motivation is further enhanced by empowering employees to weigh in directly. Only Saba enables employees to choose which rewards, such as a monetary bonus, stock, or extra vacation, would appeal most to them. This information not only furthers engagement, but also can be leveraged by the Compensation department to better inform plan design.

Flexible to Support Your Business

Saba Compensation delivers unsurpassed ﬂexibility to lighten the load on Compensation and HR. What can be a confusing, complex process is made simple for managers via ﬂexible plan designs and allocation tools, clear communication regarding plan milestones and employee eligibility, and automated reminders and notiﬁcations. Global process governance is also supported, which enables different units or geographies to vary their policies and processes, as well as simultaneously plan in multiple currencies.

Saba Compensation leverages the strength of Saba’s people systems to deliver a compensation process that is tightly linked with your talent strategies. Don’t make your important compensation decisions in a vacuum and risk disengaging or losing your most critical talent. With Saba, your organization can make smarter compensation decisions that drive your organization’s success.

Saba n Power Up Your People

Saba is the premier provider of people systems that enable today’s people-driven enterprises. By combining learning, people management and collaboration technologies, Saba delivers solutions that help mobilize and engage people to drive new strategies and initiatives, align and connect people to accelerate the ow of business, and cultivate individual and collective knowhow to achieve exceptional results.

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