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Cafe Classic: Performance Pay for Gig Workers?

Compensation Cafe

Bureau of Labor Statistics surveyed the contingent workforce was in 2005! (a For time-sensitive tasks, a small early delivery bonus could be the little extra incentive your gig worker needs to make sure things are wrapped up on time. Rubric-based quality bonus: Quality bonuses can be tricky. The last time the U.S.

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Performance Pay for Gig Workers?

Compensation Cafe

Bureau of Labor Statistics surveyed the contingent workforce was in 2005! (a For time-sensitive tasks, a small early delivery bonus could be the little extra incentive your gig worker needs to make sure things are wrapped up on time. Rubric-based quality bonus: Quality bonuses can be tricky. The last time the U.S.

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Working Overtime

True Faith HR

An AP History teacher in 1995 will still be an AP History teacher in 2005, 2015, and 2025 (if they are still teaching). Kids score higher on the statewide test or on the ACT, the teacher is not going to be showered with incentives. A human resources professional can go from a specialist to a generalist to a VP of HR.

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Where Have All the Raises Gone?

Compensation Cafe

Last month The New York Times ran an article bemoaning the loss of pay raises in favor of one-time bonuses and non-monetary rewards. Aon Hewitt did not even start tracking short-term rewards and bonuses — known as variable compensation — until 1988, when they accounted for an average of 3.9 percent in the depths of the recession.

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Finding a human capital niche: Haier’s horse race

Strategic HCM

There’s also a good description of Haier in ‘OEC Management- Control System Helps China Haier Group Achieve Competitive Advantage’ (Thomas Lin, Managing Accounting Quarterly, 2005). The company also uses quality-check coupons to provide an additional incentive mechanism.

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Dr John Cascone On How We Need To Adjust To The Future Of Work

Thrive Global

Dr. John Cascone has been a Senior Vice President at FlexHR since 2005. As a part of our interview series called “How Employers and Employees are Reworking Work Together,” we had the pleasure to interview John Cascone. And what strategies would you offer about how to reconcile those gaps?

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The (Surprising) Facts About Motivation

Kazoo

The default style management has used to motivate their employees is the stick and carrot incentive. For starters, if the incentive isn’t compelling it doesn’t work. What kinds of incentives might a company use to influence employee behavior? 05-11, July 2005; NY Times, 20 Nov. What’s the best way to design jobs?