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

HR Morning

employees are expected to hold steady at 3% in 2017, according to a survey by HR consulting giant Willis Towers Watson. The survey found that virtually all respondents (98%) are planning to give employees raises next year, with salaries for exempt (i.e., Employers are also planning 3.0% average bonus awarded in 2015.

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Stuff Changes

Compensation Cafe

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. “I Every element of human resource management is time-sensitive.

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Chick-Fil-A Is Awarding $24 Million in Scholarships to over 12,700 Employees

HR Digest

As the sector faces a quit rate approximately double that of the wider economy, and nearly 40% of restaurants claim they are understaffed, more restaurant chains are offering bonuses and perks in an effort to retain employees. These perks and incentives have ranged from increased compensation to same-day pay to vacation reimbursements.

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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.

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Cafe Classic: Don't Blame Incentives

Compensation Cafe

Editor's Note: Incentives are a tool. Incentives are not the cause of bad reinforcement programs, any more than forests should be blamed for the existence of warfare. Because incentives are powerful, they should be designed and implemented with great care. Jim Brennan expounds. It was a hell of a good place to write tickets.”.

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Total CEO Pay Rose 6% in 2016, Willis Towers Watson Study Finds

HR Daily Advisor

The analysis found total pay for CEOs increased 6% in 2016, up from the 4% median increase in 2015. The analysis, based on 365 S&P 1500 companies with consistent CEOs that filed proxies disclosing 2016 pay by the end of March, found that CEO salaries increased 2% in 2016, following a 2% increase in 2015.