Compensation Cafe

JUNE 16, 2020

What happens when you disappear raises, slim down bonuses, freeze salaries and/or jack up benefit costs? Career development no longer has to share the total rewards spotlight, and it becomes the go-to form of employee recognition. You may think that addressing career development is no big deal. Speak clearly.

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Analytics in HR

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Are you interested in a rewarding career in HR? Or maybe you’re already in an entry-level HR position and wondering which specialization to pursue for higher pay? This article will explore 21 high-paying HR jobs that offer salaries ranging from over $100,000 to well above $400,000 per year. Let’s dive in.

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Business Management Daily

APRIL 25, 2023

Development opportunities, competitive compensation, and attractive benefits packages are also perks the best talent actively looks for. While you definitely need to be competitive with your compensation, many other factors serve as incentives for employees to apply for positions. Boosted levels of employee engagement.

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Zenefits

DECEMBER 20, 2021

The Society for Human Resource Management discovered that compensation and pay is the second-most contributor to job satisfaction. This means that company compensation packages, benefits and all, matter more than ever. Employees are increasingly looking for fair compensation. What is fair compensation?

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Compensation Cafe

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

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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Genesis HR Solutions

JANUARY 31, 2020

Is the line between “employee appreciation” and “employee incentive” a little blurry to you? Even as an HR expert, I find these two terms are intertwined—and in many cases, used interchangeably. Employee Incentive Programs vs. Employee Appreciation: What’s the difference? Tip #1: Don’t default to giving money as an incentive.

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Vantage Circle

AUGUST 16, 2021

Incentives are a proven way to influence employee behavior and ultimately improve business output. Now there are several types of employee incentive programs that companies commonly use. A study showed that travel incentives are the most popular incentives among employees. Monetary Incentives. Let's get started!

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Astron Solutions

DECEMBER 7, 2021

.” They’re talking about your organization’s CEO, and you can see that there’s some clear dissatisfaction among the employees at your organization when it comes to how they’re compensated versus how much your executives get paid. Specifically, we’ll cover the following: What is Executive Compensation?

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Talentia

MARCH 13, 2024

Employee value proposition (EVP) is an equitable agreement between you as the employer and your employees that extends beyond compensation and benefits, encompassing values and trust. Compensation and benefits The first pillar includes the monetary and non-monetary rewards that employees receive in exchange for their skills and experience.

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Compensation Cafe

MARCH 17, 2020

The government has an easier time than we do in HR because most Americans are pretty willing to ACCEPT that local governments are on our side. If you're starting to see those building blocks through the haze, let's take a shot at a parallel compensation case story. Earlier, she was a Principal at Willis Towers Watson.

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Analytics in HR

MAY 30, 2022

Successful development projects require specific planning to maximize the effectiveness and potential of both people and businesses. Organizational development interventions are not the same as ad hoc transformation efforts, for example, when a company makes change decisions once a problem arises and on the go.

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Compensation Cafe

JUNE 19, 2018

This is the fourth in a Compensation Cafe series for small and early-stage companies. Suddenly the company size becomes a game changer for everyone, including Human Resources. Suddenly the company size becomes a game changer for everyone, including Human Resources.

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Compensation Cafe

MAY 22, 2020

In this Classic post, Margaret O'Hanlon introduces us to a couple of "laws" touted in Economics that offer lessons we'd be wise to add to our compensation (and broader HR) toolkits! Margaret O'Hanlon, CCP brings deep expertise to discussions on employee pay, performance management, career development and communications at the Café.

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Analytics in HR

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

So, should HR professionals pay more attention to how pay transparency works, the pros and cons of a pay transparency strategy, and how to implement a pay transparency policy? Why HR should prepare for pay transparency. This results in better candidates and fair pay.”. The answer to all of these questions is an unequivocal yes.

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Compensation Cafe

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Here are three tips you can use any time during the year, but most of all during merit increase and incentive award periods. The compensation communication cycle takes many weeks -- too long to be disconnected from your audiences. Treat compensation as part of the business cycle. Get yourself a champion (or champions).

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Compensation Cafe

JUNE 25, 2020

Compensation departments often run on the "no news is good news" communications strategy, choosing to take the upper hand in their relationship with employees. How long will it work for compensation departments to play it close to the vest in a world where information changes hands every nanosecond? It's barely working now.

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Compensation Cafe

JULY 28, 2020

What have data and analytics got to do with compensation communications? Oddly enough, these numbers can help you give your communications a more personal tone, make them more user friendly and enable you to bridge the gap between HR-speak and employee-speak. In other words, you'd customize your communications to each audience.

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Compensation Cafe

MAY 14, 2018

If you're an HR office of one, busily juggling everything from beneficiary forms to incentive awards, it's hard to believe that you share any pressures with other HR managers. and you can go home many more weekends feeling confident that you're an effective HR leader. This is the first in a series.

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Compensation Cafe

APRIL 9, 2018

What, if anything, does that have to do with our compensation work? You know, just like if you have a new compensation change or improvement, why don't employees and managers just buy it and applaud your innovation? They don't automatically appreciate the glories of HR's next great idea, no matter how great HR thinks it is.

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Compensation Cafe

MARCH 22, 2021

Editor's Note: How is your compensation program's relationship with your employees going. In her Classic post, Margaret O'Hanlon shows us how to rethink this relationship by considering how employee compensation is a lot like dating. And once we start going steady, our goal -- in HR-speak -- is to build Engagement.

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Compensation Cafe

AUGUST 9, 2019

Human Resource management may end up as a department of one, but it often it starts out as just one more thing for the founding executive team. The PEO gives you a handbook to distribute, and your benefit providers give you Summary Plan Descriptions (SPDs) to hand out. Get credit for your incentives.

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Compensation Cafe

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Do we really have grassroots support for compensation philosophies? Compensation or total rewards departments that have a philosophy statement often report that they don't know where it is, or whether it is up to date. However, we seem to undervalue stating our compensation philosophy in the rush to get work done.

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HR Management

JUNE 6, 2023

The HR department of organizations is always on its toes to find various ways and means to retain employees. Employees benefit from insurance benefits such as health insurance life insurance disability coverage retirement plans Insurance coverage provides financial security in times of crisis or uncertainty.

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Compensation Cafe

APRIL 28, 2020

Hungry for up-to-date data on how your competitors are handling the Human Resource components of the Covid-19 pandemic? To whet your appetite, here are some of the key findings: 22% of participating North American companies are cancelling salary increases and 17% are deferring or postponing increases.

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Compensation Cafe

APRIL 16, 2020

Odds are there are going to be a range of tough, candid compensation communications in the coming months. Compensation has often taken this "shelter in place" approach to employee communications. After all, Human Resources is having shortages of our own. Annual planning. Career development.

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Compensation Cafe

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

An interesting finding: HR professionals tend to confuse "pay transparency" and "pay equity." The outcome of a pay equity study is an analysis of what causes pay inequities and plans for fixing those identified. Pay equity is studied through metrics that illuminate your practices. Ready to get started on communications?

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Vantage Circle

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Extrinsic rewards are a type of incentive that motivates people by rewarding them with something tangible — such as praise, fame, or money — for achieving a specific goal. The incentives must be extraordinary in order to spur your team's competitive nature to finish a task that requires extra effort or has a short deadline.

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Compensation Cafe

JUNE 25, 2019

Nonetheless, I'm intrigued that the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) recently announced that they are supporting a proposed update to the Fair Labor Standards Act's (FLSA's) definition of "regular rate" of pay. As we all know, the FLSA specifies that nonexempt employees must be paid at least 1.5 Discounts on gift cards.

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Compensation Cafe

APRIL 19, 2017

Updating compensation practices or redesigning a plan? Like any other Human Resource effort, there are good, better and best options about the way you go about it. Lots of planning, ingredients and technique. Again, clear predictors of what will keep happening unless you plan to do something about it.

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Vantage Circle

APRIL 20, 2023

However, while individual performance is frequently rewarded with raises, promotions, and bonuses, team performance is frequently overlooked or undervalued. It can foster a culture of collaboration , improve job satisfaction , and ultimately drive better business results by recognizing and incentivizing collective effort and success.

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Vantage Circle

AUGUST 2, 2023

Employee perks refer to additional benefits, incentives, or advantages provided by an employer to their employees, beyond the basic salary and standard benefits. Festival Bonuses: Many Indian companies offer bonuses during major festivals like Diwali. What are Employee Perks? What Do Employees Want?

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Compensation Cafe

JUNE 6, 2019

Today's article is the second in a series on the Virtual Reality (VR) of compensation plan design. Last time , we visited some best practices for preparing to start a plan design project. Just ask the Compensation Cafe staff!). Remember, plan design is about getting people to do new things.

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Semos Cloud

JULY 11, 2023

HR leaders increasingly find that achieving and communicating equity in a company’s Total Rewards offering is one of the most vital challenges on their plates right now. Tony Guadagni , senior principal in the Gartner HR practice, states that: “Employee perceptions of pay equity aren’t rooted in compensation.

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Vantage Circle

JANUARY 16, 2023

As an HR professional, starting the new year by finding, curating, and planning for the upcoming events in the coming months is a not-so-fun start. The Comprehensive 2023 HR Calendar That Needs To Be Pinned Up. If the numbers are really bad, it means that the culture needs a major overhaul, and you should plan accordingly.

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Compensation Cafe

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

71% of us in HR report that 2020 is the most stressful year of our career, so I know I'm asking a lot. But years like 2020 are also the ones that show how effective HR is at strategy. HR and management are beside themselves because the employees seem intractable in their anger and frustration. 2020 has just been too much.

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Compensation Cafe

JUNE 17, 2019

It got me wondering when, and from where, will the cutting edge improvements in compensation communications be coming? So are we just going to let compensation communications be left in the dust? So are we just going to let compensation communications be left in the dust? What if you could innovate without changing your budget?

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6Q

JUNE 4, 2023

In fact, a survey by the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) found, on average, companies lose 13 percent of their workers annually due to voluntary turnover. For instance, the human resource department could be making bad hiring decisions and end up bringing on board the wrong people.

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