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HR Budgeting: Meaning, Importance, and Process

Vantage Circle

Planning an HR budget might sound like a tedious task, but that isn't always the case. A well-planned and thoughtful HR budget ensures that there's adequate funding to support employee programs and initiatives. What is an HR budget? HR budgeting is a big part of the total rewards strategy in an organization.

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Cafe Classic: Are You Watching the Store?

Compensation Cafe

A new business year brings with it both the end and the beginning of the company’s annual management incentive plan cycle. Because if left on autopilot too long it’s surprising how many extra names get added to the incentive-eligible rolls, adding significant cost without proper review. You don’t want to get to this point.

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The 2016 #FLSA Overtime Changes: What #HR Needs to Know

HR Bartender

If you’re in the HR world, you know that the much-awaited final ruling came from the U.S. That is, unlike before, employers now can include certain non-discretionary compensation toward the minimum salary. The effective date of the new rules is December 1, 2016. I’m not going to write a big long explanation for this post.

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Does Discretionary = Discriminatory?

Compensation Cafe

DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) goals remain a key issue for Human Resources professionals. At many companies, there is still a widespread allowance for discretion in setting pay levels, variable compensation incentives, and equity compensation awards. Discretion is a precarious thing.

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Are You Watching The Store?

Compensation Cafe

The pending start of a new business year brings with it both the end and the beginning of the company’s annual management incentive plan cycle. Because if left on autopilot too long it’s surprising how many extra names get added to the incentive-eligible rolls, adding significant cost without proper review.

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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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Another New Year- Time to Think About Bonuses

Affinity HR Group

With 2019 over and at the dawn of a new decade, it’s an ideal time to think about bonuses for 2020. Organizations of all sizes and across all industries use bonus programs as an important component of total compensation. Discretionary Bonuses. Non-Discretionary Bonuses. There are many types of non-discretionary bonuses.