TRAINING
Building Agility for the 21st Century Enterprise
PERFORMANCE-BASED PAY DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION
📅 June 27, 2025
🕘 9am – 4pm PHT
🌐 Online via Zoom
🔗 Learning investment: ₱3,500 per participant
OVERVIEW:
Your people give their best shouldn’t your pay structure do the same?
Traditional compensation models often lack the flexibility and incentives needed to unlock true high performance.
This comprehensive learning session is designed to guide You, HR professionals, managers, and business owners in the strategic design and implementation of performance-based pay systems tailored to the Philippine context.
You will gain a solid understanding of pay-for-performance principles, legal compliance under Philippine labor laws, and practical frameworks for aligning compensation with individual and organizational performance.
Ideal for companies looking to enhance performance and retention, this session offers actionable tools, templates, and techniques to implement a successful performance-based pay program.
The training is provided virtually through the Zoom platform and shall include lectures, real-world case studies, and interactive exercises to create fair, motivating, and legally sound incentive structures that drive productivity and employee engagement.
Participants who submit and pass the required hands on exercises shall be awarded a certificate.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
At the end of the training, you will:
- Understand the theory and strategic value of performance-based compensation in the Philippine context and emerging global economic and business realities.
- Learn how to ensure incentive schemes comply with local labor laws including guidelines, legal mandates, limitations on commissions and bonuses, and learning from recent Supreme Court decisions related to performance-based pay.
- Learn how to structure incentive pay that motivates performance.
- Establish clear, measurable, and relevant KPIs across departments with clear indicators; setting realistic targets; alignment of team and individual KPIs to business goals.
- Navigate the practical challenges of rolling out and managing pay-for-performance systems.
COURSE OUTLINE:
Topics include crafting effective key performance indicators, designing equitable bonus systems with templates, and navigating cultural and legal challenges in compensation.
Module 1: Performance-Based Pay: Distinction with basic pay, variable pay and traditional pay models.
Module 2: Philippine Labor Law and Regulatory Compliance
Module 3: Designing an Effective Incentive Scheme and Fair Pay Structures
Module 4: Aligning KPIs with Organizational Goals.
Module 5: Managing Performance-Based Pay Implementation
SESSION REVIEWS:
✔️ A comprehensive training and directly applicable to our business needs. -John S.
✔️ Excellent training! Always expertly delivered by Dr. Amante. Attended Velocity One’s learning sessions with him. -Carmella P.
✔️ Recommend this webinar. It was full of actionable advice. -Cecilia A,
LEARNING FACILITATOR:
Maragtas SV Amante, PhD.
Dr. Maragtas S.V. Amante is Professor at the University of the Philippines School of Labor & Industrial Relations (UP SOLAIR) in Diliman, Quezon City.
From 10 February 2011 to 09 February 2017, he was the Vice President for Administration of UP, with responsibilities over strategic HR management, performance management, compensation & benefits, labor relations, utilities management and procurement.
From 2008 to 2010, he was a professor at the College of Economics and Business, Hanyang University in Seoul/Ansan, South Korea. He was U.P. SOLAIR Dean from 1998 to 2001. He has more than 25 years experience in teaching, research and consultancy work in the areas of industrial relations, economics of human resources, and compensation.
Dr. Amante graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from the University of the Philippines’ School of Economics in 1983. After graduation from the U.P., he was recruited into the staff of the University of the Philippines’ School of Labor and Industrial Relations. He was granted an Asia Foundation fellowship to pursue a master’s degree in policy economics, which he finished in 1986, from the University of Illinois in Urbana Champaign in the United States.
His interest in Japanese human resource development led him to pursue doctoral studies in Japan, where he obtained his Ph.D. degree in 1993, from Keio University in Tokyo. In 2002-03, he was a research fellow at the Seafarers’ International Research Centre (SIRC) in Cardiff University, in Wales, UK. From 2002 to 2005, Dr Amante was a consultant and facilitator with the ASEAN Secretariat and the Japan Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare. He was closely involved in a series of meetings and dialogues held in various ASEAN capitals, to develop a common regional framework of industrial relations in East Asia. He is a research correspond-ent with the Institute of Developing Economies (IDE), Tokyo and was a visiting scholar with Shanghai Open University in June 2018.
Current research interest: emerging patterns of work, performance and pay, and new forms of employment relations.
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