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Compensation Strategy and Culture: 3 Steps to Create Alignment

Analytics in HR

The compensation strategy plays a crucial role in ensuring clarity when making salary and benefits decisions within your organization. With a clear framework for compensation, you will be able to help your organization become more competitive when it comes to attracting and retaining talent. Contents What is a compensation strategy?

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Seasonal Hiring Steady for 2015 Holiday Season, but is Pay Spiraling Downward?

Compensation Today

in 2014 67 percent of the seasonal hires will be rehired from last year’s crop of temporary workers Seasonal wages for retail, restaurant, and hospitality jobs are down by 5 percent from 2014 What’s going on? You’ll note that from this survey, seasonal hourly pay is down significantly from 2014, and for a number of reasons.

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Do Your Incentive Plans Motivate Choking?

Compensation Cafe

Could it be that we are designing and communicating incentives for our highest performance all wrong? This study specifically looked at the impact of incentives on motor and neurological performance in high-pressure situations. The real question should be what this may mean for future incentive plan design.

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Cafe Classic: Predicting the Next 10 Years of Compensation

Compensation Cafe

As someone who spends a lot of time designing and honing long-term incentive programs, I thought I’d skip 2014 and make some predictions about time frames that compensation people really have to worry about. 3 Years from now, 2017: The durations used to measure past and future performance for executive compensation.

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Update: Employee Compensation at Wells Fargo

Compensation Cafe

Compensation Cafe has covered Wells Fargo's pay practices since 2009, when the Bank canceled prefunded employee recognition and rewards events in the midst of the Recession, blaming it on federal government restrictions on bank practices following the subprime mortgage crisis. That means your compensation plan, too.). What's the Point?

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Two Types of Compensation People

Compensation Cafe

Compensation people seem to come in two types: employee judges and employee advocates. Another group (which I will carelessly label "advocates") prefers to ignore individual performance distinctions and instead would confer identical generous compensation rights to all employees. Please share your thoughts.

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Cafe Classic: There May Still Be Enough Time!

Compensation Cafe

Editor's Note: It may not be too late to positively impact those year-end compensation conversations happening at your organization. You may have already completed performance appraisal discussions, but performance should certainly be part of the discussion when 2014 increases and bonuses are covered with employees.