Great Place to Work

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

By measuring various aspects of workforce management, businesses can identify areas for improvement and implement data-driven strategies to enhance performance. Improving employee engagement and performance Employees are more engaged when they see that HR policies and initiatives directly support company success.

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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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Compensation Cafe

MARCH 17, 2020

If you're starting to see those building blocks through the haze, let's take a shot at a parallel compensation case story. Let's say we're introducing a new pay program with an emphasis on pay for performance, and the first step is making everyone aware of the new program. Earlier, she was a Principal at Willis Towers Watson.

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Compensation Cafe

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

After all, we often don't make much of a communication effort when we award bonuses. So, you could say that they are also checking that your company's performance matches your competitors, although not deliberately. When it comes to bonuses, the understood link with business results is often sketchy, too.

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Compensation Cafe

JUNE 4, 2020

Your trade-off program(s) should probably fall under categories like professional growth, career opportunities, work breaks, medium-term incentives and so on. 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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Compensation Cafe

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Closing the books on merit increases may be on schedule, but there are always loose ends to clear up before you get slammed with Q1 bonus and incentive work. 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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Compensation Cafe

AUGUST 6, 2020

But otherwise, it often seems that benefits fit more comfortably into the "Total Rewards" concept than compensation does. So why should compensation practitioners bother? After all, "Total Compensation" communicates its meaning clearly, why jam it into "Total Rewards"? Where do you start?

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Compensation Cafe

OCTOBER 1, 2020

These are just a few of the scenarios that can happen in performance management and salary discussions -- but remember that we'll be doing most of these discussions on video this year. This is no year for the same old compensation communications. Picture what it's like to have someone celebrate a personal best in your office.

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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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EmployeeConnect

JUNE 26, 2017

Other than attracting new talent, great workplaces tend to offer competitive and lucrative compensation and above average increases. They also provide various opportunities to earn more based on performance such as profit sharing, bonus, and other incentives to reward top performers. Offer Competitive Remuneration.

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Compensation Cafe

MAY 28, 2019

Most compensation practitioners can tick off the obvious ones on their fingers. I'm talking about: Requiring that the design helps your company achieve its strategic business and talent management goals. Go back through Compensation Cafe archives and you find many articles on each of these plan design parameters.

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Compensation Cafe

JULY 19, 2019

I recently ran into a study on effective performance management practices that I want to share with you. Not because it says anything really new, but because it does a great job on focus and insight, attributes we can all use when it comes to performance management. Procedural fairness is defined as, ". .

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Compensation Cafe

JULY 17, 2020

Many of our colleagues would say that compensation has nothing to do with feelings. On the other hand, feelings have a lot to do with compensation COMMUNICATIONS. On the other hand, feelings have a lot to do with compensation COMMUNICATIONS. Addressing feelings through compensation communications is tricky business.

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Engagedly

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

This is where Enterprise Compensation Management (ECM) comes into play. ECM is a cornerstone of human resource strategy, focused on designing and implementing compensation plans that not only attract but also motivate the brightest minds within your organization. The answer often lies in one critical area— rewards.

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Compensation Cafe

AUGUST 20, 2019

Everything we do in compensation is communications. Change management should be the foundation of 90% of compensation communications. New incentive coming up next year? No wonder there can be so much frustration about the effectiveness of compensation communications. Here are three basics of our work.

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Compensation Cafe

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

You know, the one where you give managers a merit budget to allocate. It's like spreading peanut butter evenly, a favorite simile in the compensation industry. Remember, some companies have begun to put their differentiation efforts into incentive payments rather than salary increases. Build discipline into your reward logic.

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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. A champion is someone who will guide and influence the progress of your communications, especially with senior management and department heads. Collaborate with managers in real time.

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Compensation Cafe

DECEMBER 5, 2019

What I'm talking about is giving employees enough information to understand how compensation decisions are made in your culture. It's time to accept that your job has changed from gatekeeper (limiting access to pay knowledge until employees are "ready") to educator (describing the nuts and bolts of salaries and incentives).

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Compensation Cafe

JANUARY 26, 2021

Not a great foundation for a compensation practice! salary increases and bonuses with flimsy links to everyday work, it's hard to engage people beyond job security unless you have career development alternatives to offer. Some of the findings verify long held beliefs but many more are counterintuitive. In a time of 2.5%

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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! Performance management is the first thing that comes to mind. In fact, you'll say with deep conviction that your salaries are highly competitive.

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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? Employees and managers are proudly self-centered (just like any consumer).

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AIHR

APRIL 24, 2025

Review benefits, compensation structures, and collective bargaining agreements, which may differ and present integration challenges. Continue retention initiatives to prevent high-performers from leaving prematurely through stay bonuses, development opportunities, or inclusion in early decision-making.

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Compensation Cafe

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Check out this series on Compensation Cafe: What pay transparency means , where to start, how to talk it over with executives , and deciding how far to go. 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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Compensation Cafe

APRIL 8, 2019

Bonuses are paid, last year's results are old news and grand plans for this year have been signed, sealed and delivered. Polish your compensation philosophy. Don't treat your compensation program like a junk drawer, the place where you stash odds and ends without any clear purpose. Looking at clear skies these days?

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AIHR

MAY 30, 2022

Human resource management interventions impact areas such as performance management, talent development , DEIB , and wellbeing in the workplace. Creating incentive programs. Create recognition for a job well done through incentive programs like bonuses or extra days off. Performance management.

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Compensation Cafe

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Today, we feature a Classic truth from Margaret O'Hanlon about what ultimately enables your compensation plans to achieve greatness. Great managers are exquisitely rare. (It Instead of bemoaning the state of things, though, I want to point out aspects of their research that will help our compensation design.

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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. Here are some of the compensation decisions typically made in a turbo-charged, highly fragmented setting like Healthy Gadgets'.

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Compensation Cafe

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Any day now you're going to need to get serious about planning compensation communications. I thought I'd give you a condensed version of how to organize communications for a calendar-year compensation plan. Planning for compensation communications can seem so rigid -- don't let that happen to you this year.

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Terryberry

DECEMBER 8, 2023

However, it's not about just throwing more money at your workforce and expecting them to stay—you'll need to be strategic with your retention bonuses to implement them effectively. It differs from other forms of bonuses, such as a sign-on bonus or performance-based bonus. That's where a retention bonus can come in handy.

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AIHR

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Skills required to earn within the 75th percentile: Human resource expertise: Solid HR knowledge of talent acquisition, performance management, compensation and benefits, employee relations, talent development, and workforce planning. They design, implement, and monitor employees’ equity and compensation plans.

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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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Compensation Cafe

JULY 28, 2020

What have data and analytics got to do with compensation communications? Imagine you had to tell the Compensation Committee that the company couldn't afford one of their proposals. Many clients are surprised to learn that you "take things apart to put them back together again" when you design compensation communications.

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Compensation Cafe

APRIL 28, 2020

Margaret O'Hanlon, CCP brings deep expertise to discussions on employee pay, performance management, career development and communications at the Café. Her firm, re:Think Consulting, provides market pay information and designs base salary structures, incentive plans, career paths and their implementation plans.

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Compensation Cafe

JUNE 25, 2019

If there is no complete definition of regular rate of pay, their lawyers ask, what if the government counts T-shirts and anniversary bonuses? SHRM is publicly supporting the DOL's proposed new rule specifying that the following are excluded from the definition of regular rate of pay: Anniversary bonuses. Discounts on gift cards.

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Compensation Cafe

APRIL 19, 2017

Updating compensation practices or redesigning a plan? Why ask managers and employees about how they understand pay for performance, when you're not planning to change the performance management process any time soon? I'm sure some Compensation Cafe readers can kick in more examples. Think birthday cakes.

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Compensation Cafe

JUNE 19, 2018

This is the fourth in a Compensation Cafe series for small and early-stage companies. The size of the HR staff needs to keep up with manager demands. Healthy Gadgets' HR staff institutes a system that, they communicate, "we'll never stray from" -- no matter who is making the pay decisions: HR, execs or managers.

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Compensation Cafe

AUGUST 9, 2019

Turns out that you have to take better care of Human Resources than that, especially compensation. Want to keep things from getting rocky and make the most of your compensation budget? Or, and maybe less costly, engage a compensation consultant who has good surveys.) Get credit for your incentives.

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