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Cafe Classic: Excessively Successful Incentives

Compensation Cafe

Editor's Note: In this Classic cautionary tale, Jim Brennan (using the 2016 Wells Fargo incentive disaster as his beginning "case in point") reminds us of how easily even reward plans designed with the best intentions can misfire. The only thing worse than an incentive that doesn’t work is one that works all too well.

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Stuff Changes

Compensation Cafe

The way things change over time affects almost every compensation situation. What do you mean, the CEO bonus plan needs to be modified?” The executive compensation formula acceptable at a small startup operation in its early days before a steady positive income flow has been established may become unconscionable later.

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Workers gaining clout in salary discussions? Doesn’t look like it

HR Morning

And employees list financial compensation, benefits, and growth and earnings potential as the top factors influencing their potential retention. employees are expected to hold steady at 3% in 2017, according to a survey by HR consulting giant Willis Towers Watson. Employers are also planning 3.0% average bonus awarded in 2015.

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Cafe Classic: Compensation isn't Rocket Science. it's Harder!

Compensation Cafe

Editor's Note: In this Classic post, Jim Brennan shines a light on the challenges of rewards work and the surprising discovery that awaits many compensation pros who choose the field in an effort to escape the squishiness of other HR specialties and immerse themselves in quantitative certainty. Not so much, eh?

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Cafe Classic: Disengaging from Compensation Schemes

Compensation Cafe

Editor's Note: What to do about a reward plan that has outlived its purpose and fit? No reinforcement program or incentive plan works forever; but they seem to last forever, lingering on long past the day when their effectiveness expired. Always easier to pile on more than to prune or even dig up and dispose.

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Clearing up the confusion about compensation plans

Compensation Today

Taylor, PHR, The HR Writer You may not be surprised to hear me say that compensation programs can be difficult to understand at times. Compensation programs can be complex, leading to confusion for some employees. Employees need to know and understand your compensation and benefits programs to stay engaged and productive.

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Excessively Successful Incentives

Compensation Cafe

The only thing worse than an incentive that doesn’t work is one that works all too well. Wells Fargo is just the latest company to be ethically embarrassed and financially distressed by a fiasco involving excessively motivational incentives. The moral hazard problem is not industry-specific or even an issue about incentives.