KEY FACTORS FOR THE USE AND DESIGN OF A COMPENSATION SYSTEM IN SERVICE COMPANIES: FROM A QUALITATIVE AND DESCRIPTIVE PERSPECTIVE

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Sergio Manuel Madero Gómez

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The following work emphasizes a series of reflections on certain strategic and operative factors that they are related to the systems of compensations in services company, this analysis has become from two approaches, firstly from the qualitative perspective in which it analyzes the problematic situation, tendencies and conditions for the implementation off compensations system in companies, quantitative analysis in the implementation of different elements were observed that build a system of compensations. The investigation was development in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, a questionnaire to 24 executives of human resources in services companies were applied as a result of this analysis, descriptions and estimates of positions, has shown utility in bond payment by performance.

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Sergio Manuel Madero Gómez, Monterrey Institute of Technology, Mexico.

PhD in Economics and Business Administration from the University of Deusto-San Sebastián, Spain, he is a professor in the Academic Department of Administration at the Tecnológico de Monterrey, Monterrey Campus, Ave. Eugenio Garza Sada 2501, Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico, C.P. 64849, (81) 83-58-14-00 and 83-58-20-00, smadero@itesm.mx

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