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Help Managers with the Challenges of Video Calls

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To preempt the difficulties, plan to provide tools in addition to administrative guidelines. Margaret O'Hanlon, CCP brings deep expertise to discussions on employee pay, performance management, career development and communications at the Café. Earlier, she was a Principal at Willis Towers Watson.

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Spring Cleaning Checklist!

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Bonuses are paid, last year's results are old news and grand plans for this year have been signed, sealed and delivered. You've been nudged many times by Compensation Cafe writers to develop a salary administration handbook, so managers and compensation staff alike have reliable guidelines for any circumstance.

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Why Don't You Invite Yourself to Your Next Executive Interview?

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And the more organized we are, the more consistently we use those guidelines. Margaret O'Hanlon, CCP brings deep expertise to discussions on employee pay, performance management, career development and communications at the Café. (No time available for navel gazing, you know.). How often do you age your data?

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5 Ways to Fight the "Peanut Butter" Syndrome

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The managers present their increase proposals and the group works together to ensure that consistent guidelines for decision-making are shared across the group and that the stars are rewarded appropriately, given a shared budget. Incentive decisions can also be peanut buttered, as I'm sure you've noticed.

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Is Pay Transparency a Gift? Agree, No Opinion, Disagree

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Now, the most important guideline for designing an employee survey is to limit your questions to issues that you are willing to act on. I know what I can do to influence the size of my incentive. The results tell you "what" employees are thinking, but give you no insight into "why." I understand how the increase budget is determined.

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Growing a Healthy Compensation Program

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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. This is the first in a series. An annual bonus may be offered to all employees, but is often based on vague measures that drive short-term results.

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A Primer on Job Architecture-Part One

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The distinction is that, with job architecture, you are working toward organizational alignment so that jobs from all over a company, or country, share a common structure based on standardized guidelines that are used consistently. One sidebar on that: job architecture may be developed for different purposes and offer different outcomes.