Compensation Cafe

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Now, the most important guideline for designing an employee survey is to limit your questions to issues that you are willing to act on. Nonetheless there are additional compensation-related survey questions you can consider that will demonstrate your commitment to how compensation communication leads to pay transparency.

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Compensation Cafe

APRIL 8, 2019

Polish your compensation philosophy. Don't treat your compensation program like a junk drawer, the place where you stash odds and ends without any clear purpose. Since many (if not all) compensation practices are not documented anywhere, recognize that you can't rely on the status quo. Few things happen automatically.

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Compensation Cafe

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Do we really have grassroots support for compensation philosophies? Compensation or total rewards departments that have a philosophy statement often report that they don't know where it is, or whether it is up to date. And the more organized we are, the more consistently we use those guidelines. Wondering where to start?

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Compensation Cafe

OCTOBER 13, 2020

What does that mean for Compensation? You can imagine that the department can continue to work remotely as long as we have shared access to good surveys and well-documented administrative guidelines. After all, we're used to working in small teams across geographies. Earlier, she was a Principal at Willis Towers Watson.

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Compensation Cafe

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

It's like spreading peanut butter evenly, a favorite simile in the compensation industry. 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.

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Compensation Cafe

AUGUST 24, 2020

Editor's Note: One good email and a meeting will not turn your compensation plan design into reality. I've written a lot about implementation on Compensation Cafe, including a series that starts with this article. It's also the minimum you need to invest in any kind of compensation plan rollout. Why keep harping on it?

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Compensation Cafe

MARCH 14, 2019

Well, the Compensation Cafe's predictions have come true. Margaret O'Hanlon, CCP brings deep expertise to discussions on employee pay, performance management, career development and communications at the Café. Both the CEO pay ratio and median employee have become topics of conversation in the Finance media world.

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Compensation Cafe

MARCH 8, 2018

How to solve common Life Science job leveling and salary data questions Life Science jobs evolve so quickly, anyone trying to make compensation decisions would be thrilled to get advice. They may come in handy for decisions about Engineer compensation, too.). Margaret is a Board member of the Bay Area Compensation Association (BACA).

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Compensation Cafe

MARCH 16, 2017

outline the role that compensation and rewards professionals have in reducing and eliminating pay equities in the U.S. I think most Compensation Cafe readers would agree. ". I have looked forward to the day when our profession would finally share a conversation about Compensation's future. And it doesn't shirk on the details.

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Compensation Cafe

APRIL 2, 2019

And, as Margaret O'Hanlon explains, it's also a good time to clean the cobwebs and accumulated dust from your compensation programs. Maybe it's because the lighting in most offices is far from warm, but the impulse doesn't seem to be as common in Compensation departments. Tips and inspiration follow. Yearly audit?

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Compensation Cafe

JANUARY 22, 2019

Employees find an easier version of performance criteria; or they notice loopholes; or they unearth other ways to make plan payout guidelines easily serve their own self-interest to "win, win, win" -- and thus diminish the plan design's goals of driving performance to achieve business results.

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Compensation Cafe

AUGUST 15, 2018

In case you haven't felt that way recently, SHRM has highlighted three recent, trending employee practices that warrant detailed compensation administration and policy guidelines. In addition to manager FAQs about how to handle various compensation discussions (e.g. Well, of course you do, you work in Human Resources!

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Compensation Cafe

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

Understanding what you mean by "the right people" for the job is also a solid foundation for creating a career development approach for your company. 2016 compensation communications? She brings deep expertise in compensation, career development and communications to the dialog at the Café.

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Compensation Cafe

JULY 23, 2018

It would be good to look into these process issues and provide explicit guidelines now before your labor market gets any tighter. 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

JANUARY 16, 2017

And what if Alice is moving for a career development opportunity? Unless your company has a compensation program that pays no attention to geographic differentials between your various locations, relocation will require you to make a pay differential decision for Alice's base salary.

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Compensation Cafe

SEPTEMBER 17, 2015

Same increase guidelines, too, no doubt. Get yourself a copy of Everything You Do (in Compensation) Is Communication @ www.everythingiscommunication.com, the convenient website where you can download our popular eBook. She brings deep expertise in compensation, career development and communications to the dialog at the Café.

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Compensation Cafe

MARCH 23, 2015

I''ve written a lot about implementation on Compensation Cafe, including a series that starts with this article. It''s also the minimum you need to invest in any kind of compensation plan rollout. Or you could acknowledge that your Compensation function has its own goal, far out in the distance, that is strategically essential.

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Compensation Cafe

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Managers are often confused why "Compensation needs this information, isn't it just about numbers?" Notice: The information you'll provide are process guidelines that keep managers aware of what is going on -- a solid strategy since the salary data means so much to them. So preempt that reaction. Remind them of the approval process.

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Compensation Cafe

JUNE 16, 2016

Possible members in addition to Compensation include: Legal, CFO or member of her/his staff to act as liaison and/or other executive decision makers. Payroll, IT, HR Business partners, Benefits, Training, Career Development -- colleagues needed to provide input or whose work will be affected by your decisions.

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Compensation Cafe

APRIL 29, 2021

Managers/supervisors are often promoted from front-line positions without much training in compensation practices. Is Compensation making its best effort to support managers who want to give promotions? First-time managers face this scenario, and Compensation should be better at clarifying things right from the start. .

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Compensation Cafe

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Do we have guidelines to justify the length of time it takes before employees are paid at market? Can we stand up for these guidelines because they are based on something more than intuition? Not very often.) And how freaked out are we if good performers don't get much closer to the midpoint as time and low merit budgets march on?

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Compensation Cafe

APRIL 28, 2015

Do we have guidelines to justify the length of time it takes before employees are paid at market? Can we stand up for these guidelines because they are based on something more than intuition? Learn how to increase your influence through more than numbers in the popular eBook, Everything You Do (in Compensation) Is Communication.

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