HRM Group Report

Introduction

The aims of this report are to identify the key academic sources used in
constructing our presentation on employee rewards at the Llanwern Steelworks.
Once we have identified the sources that have assisted us the most we will go on
to justify their influence, how they helped increase our knowledge in the area, the
strengths of the academic source and also, any weaknesses.

As per Cooper (1989: pg 13) reviews of literature such as this “can attempt to
integrate what others have done and said, to criticize previous scholarly works, to
build bridges between related topic areas, and/or to identify the central issues in
a field.”

Non-Financial Rewards

The first academic area of research we conducted was to find out what is meant
by non-financial rewards. A definition of the term was found in Employee
Reward by Michael Armstrong (1996: pg 8) in a section discussing “The
elements of employee reward”.

This definition was key in helping us establish how non-financial rewards could
encourage Llanwern team members to take part in the ‘new activities’. The text
(although a little dated) comes from an established source in the field (Institute of
Personnel and Development) and helped us understand how non-financial
rewards could be used as part of a total employee reward system. Research in
total employee reward systems would be essential for the later parts of our
presentation.

Examples of Non-Financial Rewards

After defining non-financial rewards our presentation went on to list examples.

Many of these were found in the module text book – Human Resource
Management: A Contemporary Approach (Beardwelll & Claydon, 2007: pg 499-
500). The list of non-financial rewards as adapted from Woodruffe (2006: pg 29)
were invaluable in helping us understand which non-financial rewards could be
applied to the Corus case study.

Although the section on non-financial rewards described by Beardwell and

Claydon (2007) was short it mentioned employee motivation which is integral to
the topic of employee reward. Armstrong’s text Employee Reward linked these
theories and applied motivation theories to a greater extent (1996: pg 40-50).
Motivational Theories

Motivation theories in general were researched for the next section of our
presentation.

References

Cooper, H.M; Integrating Research, A Guide for Literature Reviews (2nd ed.),
Sage Publications London, 1989

Armstrong, M; Employee Reward, Institute of Personnel and Development

London, 1996

Beardwell, J and Claydon, T. (eds), Human Resource Management: A

Contemporary Approach, Pitman, London, 2007