Overview (1)
16 Min 19 Sec

Online community. Special reports.

Non Pay-for-Jobs Topics Example of tabulation of frequency results. Display of actual submitted data. Display of summary statistics. Display of lengthy responses. Display of extended tabulation of frequency results.

Pay-for-Jobs Topics Typical data fields. Regression results, including graphs. Summary statistics. Participant’s percentile rank. Projected 1st through 99th percentile market values. Selecting data subsets (labor pools)/pay denomination, and aging data.

Overview (2)
13 Min 46 Sec

Pay-for-Jobs Topics (Continued) Graphs. Displaying multiple fields simultaneously. Displaying graphs of pay mix. Analyzing pay data and graphing results. Support for direct pricing. Consolidating job data into grade and overall structure data.

Overview (3)
15 Min 17 Sec

Pay-for-Jobs Topics (Continued) Creating reports.

Managing reports Viewing reports and automatically distributing content-specific reports to colleagues.

Conducting Illustrative Projects
Project 1: Identifying internal pay anomalies and determining causes.
Project 2: Assessing conformance of actual pay levels against desired strategy.
Project 3: Calculating adjustments to target salaries and bonuses needed to achieve specified    salary and annual pay strategy.

Design Survey (1)
9 Min 31 Sec

Initial sponsor registration. Overview of main toolbar. Optional Internet-based design collaboration. Specifying general survey characteristics. Introduction to three methods of data collection. Optional Internet-based participant Community functionality.

Design Survey (2)
13 Min 53 Sec

First of three data collection methods- UltraSurvey itself in Collection mode. Introduction to topics, subtopics (which can be conditionally hidden), and data fields. Ensuring accurate job matching (including embedding a customized, full-fledged job evaluation plan). Second data collection method- web forms created and controlled by UltraSurvey which participants access through their own web browsers.

Design Survey (3)
7 Min 23 Sec

Specifying survey contacts, topics (including optional linkage of customizable, full-fledged job evaluation plan/s), and jobs.

Design Survey (4)
14 Min 36 Sec

Introduction to data fields, including form for viewing their options and current settings.

Design Survey (5)
13 Min 52 Sec

Setting specifications on such data fields as for text/numbers/dates, drop down lists, notes, check boxes, buttons, lists, job evaluation links, and pay denomination selectors. Covers use of subtopics (which may be made conditionally displayable).

Design Survey (6)
15 Min 36 Sec

Part 1 (of 2) on specifying type of survey results generated for each data field, including none, the basis of data subsets, actual participant submissions, and data tabulations. Shows each type of result as used in UltraSurvey’s Results mode.

Design Survey (7)
17 Min 31 Sec

Part 2 (of 2) on specifying type of survey results generated for each data field, including summary statistics and various types of regressions. Shows each type of result as used in UltraSurvey’s Results mode.

Submit Data (1)
15 Min 47 Sec

Initial participant registration. Overview of main menu, including Internet-based participant Community functionality. Overview of main toolbar. Details on entering information (other than job-related information), including navigation and data validation.

Submit Data (2)
14 Min 24 Sec

Details on entering job-related information, including job matching (using simple classifications or full fledged job evaluation plan). Benefits and method for linking survey and internal jobs.

Use Results (1)
14 Min 34 Sec

Main menu, including community functions. Toolbar functions, including special reports and introduction to managing saved reports. Introduction to using survey results. Accessing topics and data fields. Tabulation results and related graphs. Display of actual submitted data. Data subsets. Thresholds for reporting data.

Use Results (2)
17 Min 28 Sec

Introduction to summary statistics. Display of long responses. Use of extended tabulations. Regressions, including comparative analyses using built-in calculator for multiple regressions and related graphs. Summary statistics, including participant rank, market projections to any percentile, custom specifications (including pay denomination, data aging and subsets/labor pools).

Use Results (3)
13 Min 19 Sec

Graphic presentation of summary statistics (including comparisons with participant’s own data). Simultaneously viewing any statistic on any four data fields. Graphic presentations used for pay mix assessments. Display and use of participant’s internal data not part of survey.

Use Results (4)
16 Min 55 Sec

Analyzing and comparing data. Special process for linking survey jobs with internal pay. Direct pricing analyses. Graphic displays of results of analyses. Combining job data into grade composites. Normalizing (smoothing) grade data. Overall structure summaries. Graphic presentation of grade data.

Use Results (5)
14 Min 35 Sec

Illustration of “what-if” capabilities. Excel reports. Normal reports, including report viewer and ability to save reports for instant display and automatic distribution to colleagues. 

Use Results (6)
9 Min 21 Sec

Management and use of saved reports, including viewing them and automatically distributing them (and report viewer) to colleagues based on content.

Use Results (7)
9 Min 25 Sec

Special process for expanding functionality by linking survey jobs to participant’s own jobs and internal pay information.

Analyses (1)
15 Min 9 Sec

Uncovering jobs seriously at-variance with market and identifying possible explanations. Assessing conformance of internal pay levels against management’s competitive strategy.

Analyses (2)
16 Min 22 Sec

Developing target salary and bonus recommendations to achieve management’s competitive strategies for salary and annual pay. Adhoc calculations and analyses, including compa-ratios, assessing “competitiveness” of internal staffing, and assessing practices regarding internal bonus eligibility and their competitive appropriateness.

Proxy Data (1)
14 Min 51 Sec

Example of a typical user-designed data collection form. Topics and subtopics. Specifying collected information through data field characteristics. Use of calculated (vs. collected) data fields. Types of data collection methods- UltraSurvey itself, UltraSurvey-designed web forms accessed through collector’s browser, or UltraSurvey-designed Excel spreadsheets.

Proxy Data (2)
13 Min 06 Sec

How collection forms are designed and project results specified. Changing or adding topics and jobs. Specifying characteristics of data fields and resulting information they will generate (including regressions).

Proxy Data (3)
12 Min 2 Sec

Using project results. Illustrate various types of generated information and related graphs, including actual information, regressions, tabulations and summary statistics. Specifying organization subsets. Assessing proxy pay levels and financial performance. Calculate pay adjustments needed to align pay and performance.

Proxy Data (4)
13 Min 34 Sec

Specifying how proxy pay information is to be displayed. Regression-based pay projections. Nature and use of summary statistics on proxy pay levels, and related graphs. Displaying the sponsor’s own pay levels pegged to its relative performance.

Proxy Data (5)
11 Min 45 Sec

Simultaneously displaying multiple data fields at any statistical level. Using graphs to view the mix of pay forms for the sponsor and market. Assessing the sponsor’s relative pay levels against its relative performance and calculating pay adjustments to align the two.

Proxy Data (6)
9 Min 2 Sec

Creating and saving reports, viewing them in UltraSurvey’s report viewer, and automatically distributing them to colleagues based on content