Compensation Cafe
MAY 29, 2018
We'll identify some of their missteps -- common to companies their size -- then discuss what they can do to achieve healthy compensation habits. Case background: In the first article , we looked at the compensation habits of a company called Healthy Gadgets, a new medical device company that began with fewer than 100 employees.
Achievers
MAY 17, 2018
Too often in human history, this meant that people with less power were simply compelled to work, and incentives — if they existed — consisted merely of being allowed to survive. After several evolutionary waves, we have a deeper insight into what truly motivates people, and today’s incentives are about far more than compensation.
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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. When it comes to bonuses, the understood link with business results is often sketchy, too. If merit increases are about individual performance, bonuses are about team performance on the organizational level. Employees remember their multiplier.
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.
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%
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. Her firm, re:Think Consulting, provides market pay information and designs base salary structures, incentive plans, career paths and their implementation plans.
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! 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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