Compensation Cafe

JUNE 17, 2019

Face it, those auto-messages provided by compensation and performance management administration systems don't qualify as communications, so don't even try to count them in. This year, make managers your primary communication audience. but wouldn't that be solved by having a manager that can give expert answers on his/her own?

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Compensation Cafe

JUNE 25, 2020

At the end of the fiscal year, the department has information about raises which they transfer to managers who send it down the line. Compensation departments often run on the "no news is good news" communications strategy, choosing to take the upper hand in their relationship with employees. Fewer communications are certainly less work.

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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. Interviewing executives to learn how to have an impact on the issues your leaders face. Best practices for plan design?

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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. Now you're off and running, right? Learn how to spot when a salary request is a go/no go. Don't make everyone a manager or director. Spend the money for a good salary survey. (Or,

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Compensation Cafe

JANUARY 14, 2021

Even if senior management pushes back on the costs, timely surveys are required for total compensation judgments. And by the way, do you and management agree on who your key employees are? (Sometimes, for years?) Every now and then you realize the guilt you feel about not working on it, but no one else has to know, do they?

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Compensation Cafe

JANUARY 8, 2021

If senior practitioners look for help, give it. You probably learn a lot, too, as long as you make a point of it. Observe the management style, too. What can you learn there? You may not be ready to run a project but you can support project managers, taking maintenance tasks off their hands.

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Compensation Cafe

APRIL 25, 2019

You can howl that they have you over a barrel, or you can get your mind around how unusually short the learning curve will be. Possibly because you share some combat scars and often learn from each other. Performance management creates a constricted atmosphere that just doesn't work in this situation. Incentives.

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Compensation Cafe

JANUARY 26, 2021

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. Managers and executives are just as happy with the status quo--although they'd never admit it. The findings can also make us wiser in our day-to-day work.

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Compensation Cafe

AUGUST 21, 2018

And yet a year later, employees and managers in those companies are avoiding many aspects of the software, and are gossiping about the ones they do use. And yet a year later, employees and managers in those companies are avoiding many aspects of the software, and are gossiping about the ones they do use. Gallup calls it , ".

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Compensation Cafe

JANUARY 18, 2018

Yes, survey results do have a shelf life, but you conducted that survey in part to build your relationship with employees. It's time to cement your project plans for the coming year, so I thought I'd pass along some items to consider before you submit for approval. But first, I want to share a thought I heard recently.

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Compensation Cafe

MARCH 17, 2020

The fact is, the virus' emergence gives us a case study that aligns in a perfect way with pay-for-performance communication. As of today, travel to China and mainland Europe has been cut off. you may think. And what does that have to do with comp? For that matter, what does the coronavirus have to do with comp? How did this happen?

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Compensation Cafe

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

"Employee pay has become a trending topic in media and online." Have a look at what the outside world says about our work -- at a minimum, you're bound to learn some things about Glassdoor that will come in handy: " Where Did Your Pay Raise Go? That was the first sentence in the April 15, 2014 Compensation Cafe article.

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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. If you can learn from what others have done who were in your shoes, your program design decisions could be favorably influenced.

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Compensation Cafe

MARCH 13, 2020

It also didn't mean that I was always happy with the career opportunities, but I was always thrilled with what I was learning. I was so thrilled with what I was learning that I put up with difficult work/life decisions. Editor's Note: Are your communication efforts around Total Rewards resonating with people or putting them to sleep?

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Compensation Cafe

JULY 10, 2017

How often do we hire employees based on the salary that they're asking for, rather than learning more about the obstacles they've overcome in their past positions (or what they believe they'll help your organization achieve) and why they think they qualify for the salary. Fiscal year 2106 total compensation was $860,198.

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Compensation Cafe

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Sounds like the perfect no-brainer, but there are opinion leaders who believe that college performance doesn't translate to company performance. Sounds like the perfect no-brainer, but there are opinion leaders who believe that college performance doesn't translate to company performance. How about Cornell?

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Compensation Cafe

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Editor's Note: In today's Classic, Margaret O'Hanlon uses the saga of Toyota's sticking gas pedal recall (circa 2009-2011), which became a case study for (some would say how not to do) crisis management, to examine the intersection of crisis response and performance. . What can we learn from Toyota?

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Compensation Cafe

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

You betcha, and we all have our dazed and amazed stories to tell about employees (let alone managers) who reacted in a completely surprising way to information they were given. As communicators know from their professional training, people don''t deliberate on numbers or any other information, they react immediately and emotionally.

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Compensation Cafe

JULY 28, 2020

You can use employee data and analytics to learn how to talk in a more relevant and engaging way with your employees. Many clients are surprised to learn that you "take things apart to put them back together again" when you design compensation communications. In other words, you'd customize your communications to each audience.

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Compensation Cafe

JANUARY 5, 2017

There are many reasons why pay-for-performance practices have been challenged by employees, executives and the media in the last two or so years. First, I've realized that cultural change has altered the context of performance management. Technology is at the root. I pause and reflect, therefore I am."

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Compensation Cafe

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

We also covered the headline news on employee incentives that eventually brought their CEO down. As a short reminder, the previous compensation design and management environment inspired branch employees to create as many as two million fake bank and credit card accounts over a few years. That means your compensation plan, too.).

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Compensation Cafe

JANUARY 22, 2019

According to behavioral economists, we have a lot to learn about designing cash incentives. They did for Yale , which passed the findings on to their School of Management alumni.). It is common with MBOs, sales programs and classic incentive designs. You know the problem. We are, it seems, highly risk averse.

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Compensation Cafe

JUNE 14, 2017

Over the years, Compensation Cafe writers have pointed out that a lot of money is spent wastefully in compensation on the premise that the pay-for-performance concept simply and automatically drives employee performance. Somehow it felt like time to hit the reset button, so I went looking for inspiration. Think back.

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Compensation Cafe

MARCH 8, 2018

Dig in, you'll learn fast: 2018 tax withholding calculator The IRS provides a tool that will help your employees avoid nasty surprises at the next tax filing. Learn how and where to find it to help employees determine whether current withholding choices are the best for them under the new law. and globally.

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Compensation Cafe

MAY 25, 2018

In today's Classic, Margaret O'Hanlon digs into our beliefs about what we can and cannot trust our managers to handle on their own, using the example of a particular company that does things differently. Managers are, frankly, too self serving to be trusted. When hiring people, managers just want to grab them with money.

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Compensation Cafe

JUNE 17, 2021

It is such a great way to learn in detail about the relative contribution that each job makes to our organization, and about the operational value of having the words to describe each job's contribution to employees. While the tide is turning, there are still a lot of organizations out there without job architecture.

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Compensation Cafe

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

It's worth pausing a minute to contemplate the fate of Wells Fargo 's incentive plan. Specifically, I'm inspired to get us thinking about implementation methodologies that are often overlooked, yet immensely valuable, since misguided incentives can easily wreak havoc, as we all know.

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Compensation Cafe

MARCH 23, 2015

Pay for performance is a form of change management if we do it right. Other employees have to be reminded of this and schooled by their managers -- through performance planning and feedback -- on the role they play in implementing the strategy. Why keep harping on it? Why bring this up again?

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Compensation Cafe

JUNE 6, 2019

Here's what they have shown: In our plan design simulations, collaboration with senior executives comes early so they can help you understand the nature and root causes of the performance challenges your organization is facing. Can you explain how the new plan will equip employees and managers to deal with the future today?

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Compensation Cafe

JUNE 30, 2021

Plus, there is an opportunity for each of us to learn so much about the organization's jobs and reward philosophy during the design process, and to improve employee pay satisfaction at the same time. Familiar to all of us, this is where you start--by identifying the groupings of jobs that perform similar work. Job families.

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Compensation Cafe

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

If you think that all you need from executives is a sign-off, you can run into serious problems. Part of your agenda with each executive will be to identify what you can and should learn from him/her to help polish those preliminary plans. That meeting signaled the end of the project. It's a telling true-life experience.

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Compensation Cafe

JANUARY 15, 2015

Managers dispirited about having to lead without being able to reward? Experienced designers will advise you, tell you and urge you to start with a really good problem definition. Did I ever mention how important a good problem definition is?) So here goes. Let''s look at a poor example. We need to determine whether we have enough light."

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Compensation Cafe

JANUARY 25, 2017

Learn a lot. Margaret O'Hanlon, CCP brings deep expertise to discussions on employee pay, performance management, career paths and communications at the Café. Much of what we do in compensation is logical and systematic. Once you know the steps for a process or a report, why would you spend money on a consultant? Consider this.

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Compensation Cafe

DECEMBER 18, 2018

The online Business Dictionary defines business strategy as: -A method or plan chosen to bring about a desired future, such as achievement of a goal or solution to a problem. For instance, I had a client who was the founding HR manager of a new food processing business. So, where's the disconnect?

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Compensation Cafe

JANUARY 8, 2016

You probably learn a lot, too, as long as you make a point of it. Observe the management style, too. What can you learn there? You may not be ready to run a project but you can support project managers, taking maintenance tasks off their hands. That's because of the depth of training they receive on the job.

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Compensation Cafe

MARCH 30, 2016

online, Twitter, Facebook, video, print, etc.). That's the theme of most HR conversations about compensation communications. Maybe because it's a popular practice to share the war stories behind closed doors, passing the squirms down to new HR staff. You can picture the conversations, because we've all been in them. It's too bad, really.

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Compensation Cafe

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

Our speaker is Gary Schlossberg , Senior Economist at Wells Capital Management , so we're banking on up-to-the minute information on next year's fiscal and monetary policies, as well as worldwide market trends. The Bay Area Compensation Association ( BACA ) is celebrating the holidays with a keynote speech previewing the 2018 economy.

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