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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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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. over the last five years!

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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.

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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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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% But pay raises for U.S.

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Comprehensive ‘Total Rewards’ Survey Details Employers’ Use of Various Programs

HR Daily Advisor

The relative popularity and effect of 176 different types of employee rewards programs were detailed in a survey by the Human Resources (HR) association WorldatWork. The post Comprehensive ‘Total Rewards’ Survey Details Employers’ Use of Various Programs appeared first on HR Daily Advisor.

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