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Moving In Reverse Towards the Future

Compensation Cafe

Heck, if employees failed to meet their individual objectives as badly as compensation people seem to have fumbled the ball, they would get stern rebukes, critical performance reviews, remedial action plans and downgraded performance appraisal ratings. No bonuses, either! Creative Commons image "Lefty Clock" by RBertelg.

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The Time is Now. Compensation Pros Must Rise to the Challenge.

Compensation Cafe

When the vast majority of companies have incentive programs that look very similar, but prospects that look far different, we must consider whether “market data” truly reflects our markets. Do your incentive plans promote the decisions, behaviors, and actions that truly define your success? I’m just sitting in my home office.)

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Part III - Where Should We Take Employee Rewards in the Future?

Compensation Cafe

Organizations would be more effective and employees would be more engaged if at least half of benefits dollars were converted into cash, especially incentive opportunities. First, benefits go to all, regardless of performance. Typical corporate competency systems are too generic and nebulous to have compelling business value.

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Cafe Classic: Warning Light for Total Rewards Profession

Compensation Cafe

Zingheim, the winners of the prestigious WorldatWork Keystone Award and authors of some of the top selling books in our field. Editor's note: I am proud to feature as today's Classic the cautionary post written for us a few years ago by Jay R. Schuster and Patricia K. Schuster, Ph.D. and Patricia K. Zingheim, Ph.D.,

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How to ensure your performance review leaves employees feeling motivated

cipHR

Regular performance reviews should help an employee develop their strengths and weaknesses while having an incentive to improve. This can be difficult to achieve, but there are many ways managers can motivate staff during these conversations. If you haven’t, you’re probably one of the lucky ones.

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Thank You for 10, 360 and 180,000 Reasons

Compensation Cafe

He has three metaphors for every occasion and is a leading expert on incentive plan and equity compensation issues. He has written several industry resources including the only resource dedicated to Performance-Based Equity Compensation. Connect with Dan on LinkedIn.

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Finding a human capital niche: Haier’s horse race

Strategic HCM

There’s a good example of this in Paul Evans and Vladimir Pucik’s book, The Global Challenge, which also emphasises the need for differentiation supported by internal consistency, along with the balancing of dualities (local and global) in international human resource management.