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Cafe Classic: The Compensation Cookbook

Compensation Cafe

Editor's Note: Here, for a little midweek fun, we bring you Jim Brennan and his long-awaited, utterly authoritative and instantly gratifying dictionary of compensation decisions. The Compensation Cookbook will solve all your problems. Imagine having the solution to every pay issue in one volume!

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Cafe Classic: The Compensation Cookbook

Compensation Cafe

Editor's Note: In today's post, Jim Brennan serves up his Classic tale of The Answer to our compensation design and practice challenges. . The Compensation Cookbook will solve all your problems. No compensation chef should be without this essential guide to serve up the ideal menu in your café, restaurant, or eatery .

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Cafe Classic: A Look at Self-Directed, Social Network-Leveraging Performance Management

Compensation Cafe

Editor's Note: Interest in re-imagining performance management has only increased since this Classic post was originally posted. Their success with this approach led Morning Star to create its own Self-Management Institute, which provides a lot of information and a suite of webinars on topics related to employee self-management.

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Companies Continue to Invest in HR Technology to Manage Workforce, Towers Perrin Report

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However, only 15 percent of respondents are decreasing their technology spend in 2008, and the remaining 55 percent are maintaining their technology budgets at 2007 levels. This year, 40 percent of respondents indicated that talent and performance management systems were their top service delivery issues.

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Cafe Classic: More Savvy Insights into HR Emails

Compensation Cafe

As you might imagine, Ames' & Flynn's 2007 research indicated that low assertiveness produced minimal returns. Same thing goes for HR communications, especially about performance management. It's an eternal worry for the neurotic -- er, I mean effective -- leader. . What got me excited was the researchers' visual.

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Reskilling and Upskilling Our Workforce Are Essential as Talent Gaps Expand

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What’s more, their struggle has been worsening; the 2013 findings were the highest proportion of employers expressing concern about talent shortages since 2007. Compensation Learning Management Performance Appraisal Performance Management Performance Reviews Talent Management Training'

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Even More about Gig Workers

Compensation Cafe

From 2007 to 2016, the share of the workforce reporting 1099 income has only risen by one percent. Margaret O'Hanlon, CCP brings deep expertise to discussions on employee pay, performance management, career development and communications at the Café. Here are some facts that The New York Times shared.