Compensation Cafe

JANUARY 15, 2021

A new business year brings with it both the end and the beginning of the company’s annual management incentive plan cycle. While the left hand is busy processing performance assessments and award payouts the right hand is getting ready to launch the new cycle. Editor's Note: Are you rolling into the New Year on autopilot?

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Cezanne

MARCH 14, 2024

3 steps to aligning compensation planning with organisational goals in summary: In this blog, we look at the 3 steps HR professionals should take to ensure their compensation planning strategy aligns with organisational goals. This is the north star that shapes strategic compensation planning. Now, that might sound like a lot.

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15Five

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

I joined 15Five’s Director of People Science, Courtney Bigony and Chief Culture Officer, Shane Metcalf, in a recent webinar where we addressed ratings and compensation as they relate to performance reviews. In my book, Next Generation Performance Management , I differentiate between Performance Management 1.0 (PM

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Reflektive

MAY 22, 2017

But will the incentive of a higher salary or compensation bonus improve their work performance? Well, that’s another story. Financial incentives can undermine autonomy and intrinsic motivation Click To Tweet. Compensation Isn’t Enough. Essentially, once people receive an incentive, their motivation wanes.

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PCS

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Management can provide monetary and other incentives to outstanding personnel. These bonuses motivate them to work harder for the benefit of the company. A well-thought out staffing plan helps the HR department to evaluate and execute long-term approaches in determining the following: Positions to be filled up.

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Decusoft

JUNE 23, 2021

Incentive Structures. Incentives have always played an important role in helping to motivate employees, especially in the last few years as competition rises and more businesses are facing uncertain circumstances. The choice between individual performance incentives and team incentives is a deciding factor for many businesses.

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CCI Consulting

MARCH 11, 2021

It’s probably no surprise that the social and economic impacts of COVID-19 have forced a significant number of organizations to reevaluate their approach to compensation this year. This is especially apparent when it comes to employee compensation. Prior to the pandemic, the environment looked strong.

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HRExecutive

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

As both organizations and prospective employees increasingly evaluate dynamics around compensation , improving pay equity is becoming a key focal point in the ever-critical hiring process.  Quite often, these longer-tenured, higher-performing employees become the outliers to be remediated in pay equity management.

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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. They want confirmation that the merit budget is the same as the one their neighbor's company--as well as your local competitors--is awarding. When it comes to bonuses, the understood link with business results is often sketchy, too.

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Decusoft

JUNE 24, 2021

Employee retention and growth are the most common reasons for implementing incentive compensation plans, but they can also be used to increase sales, employee recruitment, customer loyalty, commitment, and to fulfill business objectives. Financial Incentive Plan Design. Individual Incentives vs. Group Incentives.

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Analytics in HR

JULY 31, 2023

As a department, it is responsible for managing HR activities from recruitment and onboarding, compensation and benefits, learning and development, performance management, and employee relations to separation or retirement. This may include implementing wellness initiatives to address mental health, for example.

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Decusoft

APRIL 1, 2021

What is Executive Compensation? . Executive compensation programs are influenced by a variety of factors today. As a compensation manager, your primary concern should be the alignment of pay and performance. The incentives for real performance and results are heavily weighted in executive pay.

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Decusoft

AUGUST 16, 2021

Today, several factors affect enterprise compensation plans. The alignment of pay and performance should be your first focus as an enterprise compensation manager. In enterprise compensation, the incentives for actual performance and outcomes are strongly weighted. . Enterprise Compensation Benefits.

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Primalogik

MARCH 2, 2023

Performance management tools have become essential to HR operations. Not only do they assist the HR department; they also help managers throughout the organization to guide their teams to success. Consider that only 2% of companies feel they have a great approach to performance management. Table of Contents 1.

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UpstartHR

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

Last week I was talking with some folks about using compensation to drive employee behavior, and it occurred to me that I have never shared anything about that topic here. We want to instantly think that we can drive performance or discourage behaviors through monetary incentives. Here are a few: Bonuses. Profit sharing.

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Compensation Cafe

DECEMBER 16, 2021

As regular readers know, I am someone who does a ton of incentive compensation work. I believe in incentives and their ability to align people with the culture, strategy, and goals of a company. I know incentives work when properly designed and communicated. The first is a big-ticket item that aligns well with management.

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Business Management Daily

APRIL 16, 2024

As such, employers must do everything they can to attract and retain high-performing employees, and issuing regular merit increases is one of the best ways to do so. A merit increase or merit raise refers to a pay increase based on an employee’s performance. However, the difference lies in the way the compensation is delivered.

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HR Tech Girl

APRIL 17, 2023

Building an human resources department encompasses hiring for various key roles covering hiring, compliance, compensation management, and administration. HR departments have five principal functions: meeting staffing needs, employee compensation, employee benefits, performance assessment and appraisal, and law compliance.

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Compensation Cafe

DECEMBER 3, 2015

The pending start of a new business year brings with it both the end and the beginning of the company’s annual management incentive plan cycle. While the left hand is busy processing performance assessments and award payouts the right hand is getting ready to launch the new cycle. You don’t want to get to this point.

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Decusoft

AUGUST 11, 2021

Sales managers play a unique role in your business and need compensation strategies tailored to their specific skills and abilities. Sales managers need a balance of base salary and variable incentives that motivate them to lead their team. What Is a Sales Compensation Plan? Strategic Incentive Compensation Plan.

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Compensation Cafe

AUGUST 3, 2021

Editor's Note: In this Classic cautionary tale, Jim Brennan (using the 2016 Wells Fargo incentive disaster as his beginning "case in point") reminds us of how easily even reward plans designed with the best intentions can misfire. The only thing worse than an incentive that doesn’t work is one that works all too well.

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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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Compensation Cafe

MAY 5, 2020

Comparing incentive plans to a pandemic response seems like a stretch, but great incentive plans are all about stretching. Stretching company performance. Stretching your compensation budget. Every good incentive plan project starts with a simple question. Stretching people's expectations. The list is long.

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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

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

The way things change over time affects almost every compensation situation. She has already surpassed the quota demanded last year.” Performance output objectives valid in prior periods are irrelevant going forward. “Why Well, circumstances do change with time, don’t they? S tuff changes.

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Analytics in HR

MARCH 31, 2023

From the time they apply for a job until well after they leave an employer, the entirety of their material and relational interactions shape their perception of the organization. Physical aspects directly affect how employees feel about their work, as well as their ability to focus and carry out their duties.

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Semos Cloud

MARCH 15, 2022

Total Rewards is a compensation strategy for employees of a business or an enterprise. It’s worth mentioning that successful enterprises also have Total Rewards departments to ensure that compensation policies are well-thought and meet employee needs. The compensation also includes various bonuses for an employee’s salary.

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Business Management Daily

JUNE 6, 2022

Or, it might entail scaling back on some healthcare perks implemented during the pandemic, which would go against the company’s efforts to brand itself as exceptionally committed to employee well-being. This formal, strategic blueprint spells out the company’s compensation programs. How do competitors compensate their employees?

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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! In other words, it seems like people who are saving the world in the capital markets give them credibility, so we might as well give it a try it, too.

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Compensation Cafe

MARCH 17, 2020

Otherwise we won't ENGAGE IN THE ACTIONS like self-quarantine which may be good for older citizens, but we wouldn't be at all willing to take an action like that without obtaining detailed insights into its importance, as well as discussing it with family and friends. if we are to stay well and safe.

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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

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

Compensation Cafe has covered Wells Fargo's pay practices since 2009, when the Bank canceled prefunded employee recognition and rewards events in the midst of the Recession, blaming it on federal government restrictions on bank practices following the subprime mortgage crisis. That means your compensation plan, too.).

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Compensation Cafe

JANUARY 3, 2019

It turns out that incentive compensation doesn’t just work, it can work too well at motivating the wrong behaviors. Make sure you design your incentive plan to reduce the possibility and rewards for cheating. Incentive plans are difficult to get perfect. What can we learn from this episode? The truth will come out.

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Compensation Cafe

MAY 21, 2020

For at least a few decades, this has been the way of things in the world of compensation. Most of us thought summer vacation would be a long three-months, but here we are experiencing some weird version of a six-month vacation, and we're mostly surviving it pretty well. Now is just such a time for compensation professionals.

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Compensation Cafe

JANUARY 9, 2020

When describing their annual incentive plan (STI) most organizations will highlight to eligible employees the upside reward opportunities provided by the plan. That is, the better your personal performance the greater the reward. Also, the better the company performs the greater the reward. The Dark Side.

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Compensation Cafe

APRIL 27, 2022

Editor's Note: We all have our "best way to fix a compensation problem" biases. Let's start with the more general bias, that compensation is the fix for every organizational challenge. Employees not meeting performance standards? Put in an incentive plan (a.k.a. It's called the law of the instrument. Turnover an issue?

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Compensation Cafe

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

Well, so much for the warm-hearted caffeinated, pick-me-up from the Comp Café. Today is a steaming jolt of quadruple espresso in response to the Wells Fargo incentive pay mess. I answered that if I had been asked a few weeks ago, Wells Fargo would have been on the list. I guess it’s hard to know what you don't know.

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