R&R Are More Holistic Than C&B: We Should Rename C&B to R&R

In: Compensation and benefits review, Band 45, Heft 5, S. 286-288

Abstract

R&R is a better term than C&B. This is because C&B has a negative connotation, while R&R is positive. R&R has a historical root. In every culture, religions, we have the evidence of rewards and punishment for workers. In India we have concrete evidence of rewarding good performers, and also punishing the poor performers during Mughals' dynasty, i.e., before British India. With social reforms, however, such punishment has been abolished. Today R&R practices are institutionalized in organizations globally. However, such R&R practice in several organizations is merged with C&B. In many organizations R&R is planned and managed by their strategic level, while C&B is left to the HR functions, causing the problem of integration. Thus despite having R&R embedded in their organizational culture, such organizations fail to reap the advantages of R&R in true sense. The paper argues R&R and C&B cannot be isolated, hence it requires integration. The idea was debated in a known social media. Results of the debate are inconclusive. The author argues, as R&R is gaining more importance, and today practiced by organizations across the globe, why not we re-name our traditional C&B to R&R and brings it under HR functions, R&R being more holistic.