Compensation Cafe

JUNE 5, 2018

A business mantra for decades has been “what gets measured gets managed.” Sadly, in some areas over the years, that’s become twisted to focus on the metric and not the behavior or goal underlying the metric. Knowing where we stand and how we’re doing in working toward targets is important, but these metrics must never supersede the original reason for pursuing the target. The entrepreneurial element of human nature is stifled by metric fixation.”.

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Compensation Cafe

APRIL 17, 2017

How clear is the line of sight between your performance pay programs, strategically linked performance metrics and the organizational strategy? Do your managers see these performance measures as they really are (imperfect proxies for larger, intangible strategic constructs), or do they focus on the performance measures themselves as the ultimate goals? Managers will receive bonuses tied directly to their survey scores.

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Compensation Cafe

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Editor's Note: Three cheers for Dan Walter's cogent and Classic advice on how to make pay for performance more successful in your organization. Pay for performance continues to rise. However, the failure of pay for performance is rising almost as fast.

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Kazoo

APRIL 27, 2018

As an employee incentive, cash isn’t king. As part of Kazoo’s research on rewards and recognition systems that work, we uncovered how to make employee incentives effective. Here are nine ways to create the best possible employee incentive options at your company. A sincere thank-you presented with an employee incentive lets an employee know exactly what they’ve done that you value. There is no one-size-fits all employee incentive.

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HR Daily Advisor

APRIL 4, 2016

The HR Daily Advisor research team conducted the 2016 Talent and Performance Management Survey in January, 2016. Talent and performance management are some of the most important and rigorous tasks any HR professional has to deal with. We asked participants everything from how they identify high-performing employees to how they reward those employees to what survey participants think about performance appraisals in general. Managing Shortages.

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Compensation Cafe

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Remember that time you spent weeks modeling a new incentive plan only to have it shot down? Remember that other time you explained to your managers that they needed to have frequent conversations on the new pay for performance program? It’s difficult to stand your ground when a CEO or department head pushes back on a new incentive plan. Dan has written several industry resources including the recent Performance-Based Equity Compensation.

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Compensation Cafe

OCTOBER 2, 2019

Annual and long-term incentive plans are often not as well cared for. They just exist and perform as designed and we may not dig back into them more than every couple or three years. Other times we have been warned by managers or staff that a program is ineffective, or worse. Just like the fact that most kids don’t grow up wishing to be a dentist, few compensation professionals aspire to be mavens of incentive plans. Yes, incentive plans can be harder than base pay.

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Compensation Cafe

APRIL 25, 2018

Editor's Note: There are those who believe pay for performance is the answer to all problems - and those who see it as universally destructive. The trick is to conceive and implement them in a way that recognizes their place in the overall system where performance must be improved and acknowledges the risks that this involves. With that in mind, I give you Dan Walter and his evergreen insights on the top risks to performance pay. Incorrect Metrics.

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Compensation Cafe

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

At offices around the world hiring managers and HR Business Partners go through their days stunned but resolute. Base with a 31.69% target incentive level, based on the fourteen individually weighted metrics recently established by our big data mining exercise in conjunction with our actuarially-modeled best-case scenario using the recent new pricing model from that academic team at MIT.”. He works as Managing Consultant for FutureSense. September 5, 2028.

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Compensation Cafe

JUNE 2, 2020

The best companies will plan for a new world where mid-level managers are better (and paid accordingly). Training will change and performance management will adjust with it. There will be a rethinking of the concept of “long-term” incentive plans.

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Compensation Cafe

AUGUST 21, 2018

Planning to upgrade compensation management with new software? I live in technology gulch so you'd think these issues were long dealt with here, but when we asked the members of the local compensation association for their hot topics, software topics were in the top five -- software selection and optimizing software metrics. 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.

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Compensation Cafe

JANUARY 16, 2019

Editor's Note: Do your performance management practices - in truth and not just on paper - sufficiently consider behavior in addition to results? When reviewing an employee's performance, what do you as a manager look at? You'll try to be as objective as you can, considering quantifiable metrics like deadlines met, sales targets achieved, projects launched, budget compliance and products or services delivered. How managers act.

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Compensation Cafe

AUGUST 24, 2017

We were discussing incentive plans, and my friend asked what I thought was a pretty simple question: “How do you measure results?”. I started blathering about metrics and goals, hockey-stick shaped graphs, targets, and thresholds. I had to admit that most people in my industry are kind of terrible at quantifying results. Your company’s compensation philosophy defines your high-level performance metrics.

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Compensation Cafe

MAY 23, 2016

This February, the Harvard Business Review published Stop Paying Executives for Performance ” by Dan Cable and Freek Vermeulen. The basis of the article is that we do away with all executive incentive pay and replace it with high (in cases much higher) salary. Their argument is that there is no evidence that pay for performance works and some evidence that it is dangerous. Note: We are not arguing that top managers such as CEOs should be paid less.

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Possible Works

AUGUST 7, 2020

The questions asked during a performance review can decide how the next year/quarter is going to pan out. Here are some takeaways on what to ask during a performance review discussion. Promotions, bonuses, and hikes are not the only incentives for an employee.

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Possible Works

AUGUST 7, 2020

The questions asked during a performance review can decide how the next year/quarter is going to pan out. Here are some takeaways on what to ask during a performance review discussion. Promotions, bonuses, and hikes are not the only incentives for an employee.

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Compensation Cafe

AUGUST 31, 2017

Many and various thought leaders and industry pundits exhorting us to build a more collaborative relationship with Finance. Finance and HR seem to have similar values: Invest in rewards to drive ROI and tie rewards to financial performance. We also seem to prioritize metrics in a similar way. 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

MARCH 31, 2017

Spice up your initial cafeteria offerings with the perfect blend of base, incentive, extrinsic, variable, flex, step, intrinsic, static and untrinsic elements. The long-awaited authoritative dictionary of decisions contains every remuneration formula and reward metric required for instant success in the compensation trade, says its editor, the noted Total Rewards guru H.R. Freeze the pay of the remaining lowest 5% of performers and place it in a Frozen Fund.

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Decusoft

APRIL 1, 2021

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. Merit increases are based on employee performance or individual performance.

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HR Daily Advisor

AUGUST 16, 2017

to senior management, 19.1% awarded as much to employees at the management level, 19.7% awarded it to non-management salaried exempt employees, 20.6% A peek at the maximum increase tied to a performance scale of 1–5 shows that 20.1% awarded pay increases of up to 2% to employees whose performance “needs improvement.”. 2017 General Increases (Not Tied to Performance). Pay raises of more than 10% were awarded to senior management at 7.9%

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Decusoft

APRIL 23, 2021

Fringe benefits, union incentives or employer-provided vendor discounts are all part of employee compensation programs. When designing a robust executive compensation plan , there are hundreds of factors to analyze and various success metrics to weigh. Competition in the industry.

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CCI Consulting

MARCH 11, 2021

Some industries, like hospitality and air travel, may take years to recover while others are now slowly starting to return to normal. Companies are becoming more innovative when it comes to hardship pay, one-time bonuses and discretionary awards.

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Kazoo

OCTOBER 11, 2018

Do cash and bonuses still appeal to many employees? After offering a mix of cash and other bonuses to employees: Non-monetary bonuses boosted performance slightly better than monetary ones. Monetary bonuses affected performance more when the employee had a mix of options and chose them. When an employee incentive option was taken away from the mix, the impact of the remaining bonuses went down.

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Kazoo

JUNE 1, 2018

Appreciation and employee engagement are mistakenly seen as soft benefits – making it all too easy to avoid investing in an employee experience enhancement program that, at first glance, looks more like a bonus than mission-critical functionality. Plus, they had to calculate tax implications and manage any needed currency conversions manually for each piece of recognition. This is three months faster than the industry standard.

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Kazoo

JULY 5, 2018

Offer a Spot Bonus for Taking the Survey. As an incentive to get employees to take an employee satisfaction survey, try offering a spot bonus for taking it. Engaged, satisfied employees offer better customer service, stay at their jobs longer, and perform better. About Kazoo: Kazoo amplifies company culture through its award-winning employee experience platform that delivers engagement, retention, performance management, and improved business metrics.

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Kazoo

JUNE 15, 2018

They may be formal – like an annual or quarterly bonus tied to meeting performance objectives. Or they may be informal – like a stack of gift cards in a manager’s drawer. The London School of Economic s reviewed 51 different studies and found that financial incentives not only fail to encourage employees to perform – they can even demotivate employees. Most companies have employee rewards programs.

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Astron Solutions

APRIL 20, 2021

Whether used for hiring, conducting a performance review, or conducting any number of HR-related activities, job descriptions cross your desk as an HR professional time and time again. Lay the foundation to facilitate ongoing performance management.

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CakeHR

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

The reality, however, is that poor employee engagement is a common problem in every industry, despite the many attempts made to improve it. Fixing the problem requires a systemic approach that changes the whole equation for employees, providing incentives to stay when the labor environment gives them every reason to leave. Begin With the Right Metrics. The good news is that the CakeHR performance management module makes collecting most of this data fairly easy.

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Ongig

APRIL 17, 2020

Performance Management. 100 Useful Performance Review Phrases. People Management. 8 Tips for Managing Your Team Effectively. Leadership and Management. Business Performance. HR Management and Compliance. HR Management and Planning.

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