During the spring semester of 2019, a capstone team from the Cornell Institute for Public Affairs (CIPA) partnered with staff from the Global Livingston Institute (GLI) and Staffable Africa on designing a remuneration survey for organizations working in the sectors of social impact and social enterprise in Kampala, Uganda.
Summary
This survey is intended to better understand the status quo of employees’ remuneration in organizations with social missions in Kampala, Uganda. The information collected through this survey will help current organizations with social missions understand remuneration structures of similar organizations in Kampala, and potentially redesign their own compensation and benefit structures to improve and maintain competitiveness.
The survey was designed to be as specific to the employment landscape of Uganda and Kampala as possible. The team conducted extensive research on labor regulations and laws in Uganda when designing the survey questions. Although Uganda has employee benefits and retirement plans regulated by law, there was still uncertainty on whether organizations have instituted such benefit plans, since previous data collected by researchers showed a low rate of organizations following regulations and establishing retirement plans. Thus, the renumeration survey may allow GLI and Staffable Africa to obtain a more accurate picture of compensation and benefits that are actually offered by organizations working in the social impact space in Kampala.
The team recommends that GLI and Staffable Africa contact every potential participating organization to collect more information about the definitions for the position titles used by organizations in Kampala. The current definition chart provide by the team was originally designed by Mercer, a professional remuneration survey consulting company. However, some of the definitions might not apply or may not be specific enough for organizations in Kampala. in addition, GLI and Staffable Africa should consider the level of detail to include 1n the initial survey, as well as the follow-up survey. Response rates might drop significantly if either section of the survey is too long.
