HR Bartender

MARCH 22, 2018

I thought about this as I was planning my agenda for this year’s WorkHuman Conference , pioneered by Globoforce. I saw that one of the sessions this year was titled “Show Me the Money: 5 Unexpected Places to Find Recognition Budget” and reached out to the speaker Rob Schmitter , solutions architect at Globoforce, to see if he would give us a sneak peek. Rob, I’d like to think that everyone understands recognition is important. Compensation. Let’s face it.

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Compensation Cafe

OCTOBER 26, 2018

Editor's Note: With Halloween fast approaching, today's Classic features Derek Irvine and his exposition of the ghosts that haunt - and can really mess with - your employee recognition efforts. On this day of ghouls, goblins and other frightening beasties, let’s look at three of the most common goblins of employee recognition I hope never grace your organization’s doorstep. What other goblins of employee recognition gone wrong have you seen or experienced?

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WorkHuman

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

I feel lucky to work for a company that understands and invests in employee recognition and rewards. But we’ve all worked for companies or leaders who don’t buy into the concept of employee recognition. New research from Globoforce’s WorkHuman Research Institute can help you silence the skeptics. Here are six new stats from that finding: Meaningful work is more important than compensation. Compensation was third on the list.

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Compensation Cafe

JUNE 14, 2018

When we talk about employee recognition in this space, the context is nearly always employee recognition and reward programs – how we recognize and celebrate employees who demonstrate company values and contribute to organizational success. But let’s not forget a basic definition of recognition: “acknowledgment of something or someone’s existence, validity, or legality.”. The simple act of recognition, to pause and say, “I see you. Recognition

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Compensation Cafe

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Editor's Note: What can Psychologists teach us about employee recognition. What do employees value most for recognition? A few findings to highlight: 1) A better recognition experience leads to better business outcomes. When these conditions are met: Recognition practices are fair. Direct supervisors provide recognition effectively. Employees value the recognition they receive. Recognition in other forms must fill the breach.

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Compensation Cafe

JULY 8, 2019

Editor's Note: Going global with your recognition and rewards programs? This post is inspired by Jim Brennan’s “Travel, Currency Issues and Compensation” post last week. This is a very broad example of unintended consequences from artificially controlling currency, but there are lessons we can learn about globalization of programs, especially those that impact compensation, recognition and rewards. 1) Recognition and rewards are not compensation.

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Compensation Cafe

MARCH 24, 2017

Editor's Note: In this Classic post, which focuses on recognition but truly speaks to employee rewards in a broader sense, Derek Irvine calls out some of the red flags that point to a program in trouble -- and offers some advice on understanding the issues and finding a way forward. I spend many hours and days with clients helping them evaluate their recognition practices and uncover areas for improvement. You retain the power of recognition.

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Compensation Cafe

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

Why do we compensate employees? But compensation professionals (and readers of this blog) know the pay cheque is but one part of a very complex agreement between employer and employee to maximize a mutually beneficial relationship. Latest in these reports is Mercer’s 2015/2016 US Compensation Planning Survey, which is well summarized in this SHRM report. Career-change opportunities within the company to keep employees on board while diversifying capabilities.

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Compensation Cafe

MARCH 29, 2019

If so, then you likely experience many of the same stressors of global organizations in catering to local employee needs for appropriate compensation, benefits, recognition and rewards. It’s all too easy for HQ to think they know what employees want (in any capacity). This is a powerful lesson for HR pros creating global employee recognition programs, too. Recognition Total Rewards

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Compensation Cafe

MAY 8, 2020

Why does compensation matter? Yes, compensation is a contractual agreement with the employee: X amount of pay for Y amount of work. In this context, compensation can be an integral element of how you focus employees and communicate to them your strategic goals.

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Compensation Cafe

JULY 12, 2016

One of the interesting implications, highlighted in a recent interview that Tony Hsieh gave at Wharton’s 2016 People Analytic conference, is for the topic of compensation. In a holocracy, hierarchy is based on “purpose and not people,” which frees employees to move around the company from role to role. What determines compensation when the foundation of the organization is so fluid? Can typical companies leverage “superpowers” of their employees as a basis for compensation?

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Compensation Cafe

MAY 14, 2015

WorldatWork’s latest “Trends in Employee Recognition Report” is out. Key highlights from this year’s report: 1) Prevalence of recognition programs in organizations continues to grow. 89% of organizations offer some sort of recognition program with an average of 4.6 different types of recognition programs in each organization. Recognizing loyalty through years of service celebrations remains the number one most common recognition program. Recognition

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Compensation Cafe

MAY 8, 2018

Thanks to this article by Nestor Ramos and this one by Nicole Yang, both from The Boston Globe, I’m now also familiar with Brady’s compensation ($41 million in NFL contracts alone) and his sense of feeling underappreciated. Ramos’ article quotes Alison Green, author of the Ask A Manager blog, on why this phenomenon plays out, even among the highly visible and highly compensated: “I don’t think everyone feels underappreciated, but it’s true that many people do. Our U.S.

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Compensation Cafe

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

A few innovative companies implement compensation practices that others quickly dismiss as (at best) “good for them but it will never work for us” or (at worst) “crazy, impractical and unsustainable.” They change employee commitment to their colleagues, their customers, and their company. After completing the 90-day new-hire training period, Zappos needs to know its newest employees are all-in. Compensation Philosophy Incentives/Bonuses Pay for Performance Recognition

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Compensation Cafe

AUGUST 14, 2018

Stretching the compensation dollar isn’t always about cutting back. To get more from your compensation investment, consider these three approaches. Recent headlines told the story of the experiment conducted at Perpetual Guardian, a New Zealand-based financial services firm in which CEO Andrew Barnes told employees to work 32 hours per week instead of the usual 40, but with no cut in pay. After all, employees are used to being told what to do by their employers.

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Compensation Cafe

DECEMBER 17, 2018

If you polled your employees and asked them, “What kind of rewards would you prefer?”, But what employees say they want for rewards, what actually works best to motivate employees, and what employees enjoy as rewards are entirely different things. But the bottom-line we must all remember is this: Cash is the currency of compensation. Recognition and rewards requires an entirely different currency. Compensation and Recognition Rewards Are Different.

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Compensation Cafe

JULY 29, 2015

While I enjoy blogging here on the Compensation Café , my primary (selfish) benefit of doing so is the tremendous amount I learn every day from my fellow bloggers and readers who regularly share deeply insightful and thoughtful learnings, lessons and applications in the broad field of compensation. Today, I’d like to tap into your collective knowledge on the subject of performance and compensation. Getting more employee recognition (13%)”.

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Compensation Cafe

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

How does any of this relate to compensation? Except for a person’s childhood, all of those attributes play into the compensation decisions we make every day for new hires and tenured employees, alike. Gaining wisdom on the very human elements of good hiring and management practices nearly always boils down to good compensation practice. What key compensation or leadership lessons have you learned during your career? Compensation Philosophy

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Compensation Cafe

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

Are you just throwing money at your employees? Organizations are facing greater pressure to address modern employees’ rising expectations and to also achieve greater levels of performance across the workforce. Leveraging compensation more effectively is just one area among many within HR that is coming under greater scrutiny and appears ready for transformation. Reports like these fundamentally challenge how compensation can more effectively drive performance.

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Compensation Cafe

FEBRUARY 4, 2016

The impact of these changes can be felt throughout the organization, from senior leadership teams responsible for successfully planning around those challenges to the front-line employees who adapt their roles and deliver on those plans. One solution has been to implement incentive compensation or “pay for performance” plans. Do all managers always take more risks when offered incentive compensation?’”. Compensation Philosophy Incentives/Bonuses Recognition

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Compensation Cafe

JANUARY 28, 2019

A highly unscientific poll method of asking colleagues and friends about their experience with or recommendations for the annual compensation increase process (by whatever name you want to call it – merit increase, raise, cost-of-living increase) shows deep dissatisfaction with the status quo. It’s clear even companies with the best of intentions for compensation cannot compete for top talent based on pay alone. Anyone can copy your compensation plan.

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Compensation Cafe

DECEMBER 18, 2014

Recognizing and appreciating employees for efforts, behaviors and results in line with what matters most to your organization is guaranteed to get positive results. But getting the most out of employee recognition programs requires empowering all employees to fully participate in recognition and giving managers actionable oversight of recognition itself through metrics and dashboards. 1) Trust Employees with Full Peer-to-Peer Recognition.

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Compensation Cafe

AUGUST 11, 2015

In my last post , I tackled the topic of decoupling the traditional formal performance review from compensation, asking why we hold onto old systems we are fairly confident do not work. Concern that managers won’t engage in any feedback exercise with employees without the review mechanism to force the issue. We need to serve our employees and our managers better. It is important to encourage employees to take risks.

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RecognizeThis!

APRIL 10, 2015

Social recognition is a very powerful means of creating and managing culture, when structured in a considered, thoughtful way. Q1: A company maintains its most valued assets not by compensation, but by appreciation? There’s no question that fair compensation matters. Employees need to satisfy their base requirements for safety, security, food, etc. Maintaining your most valued assets requires an appropriate blend of both compensation and recognition.

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Compensation Cafe

MARCH 5, 2021

Employees that took that survey were asked to rate the three most important attributes of workplace culture. The number one answer from 50% of those employees: pay. But for the most part, I am surprised that so many employees point to pay as the most important part of culture.

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Compensation Cafe

MARCH 17, 2021

Turning these historical moments into regular celebrations are a strong bonding element for employees to rally around. They are fully committed to the happiness of their employees and, through them, their customers. Compensation Philosophy Total Rewards

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Compensation Today

JUNE 5, 2017

Not surprisingly, there was a lot of focus on the human and employee experience at the WorkHuman conference. A number of presenters shared projects that had impact on employee experience within their organizations. Eric Mosley, CEO of Globoforce, laid out five future trends, including: replacing performance management with continuous feedback, individualized rewards and pay, team management, the role of the coach, and HR as a culture facilitator. Globoforce).

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Compensation Cafe

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

I think the same is true for many employee recognition and reward programs – for many of the same reasons. 3 Reasons Valentine’s Day (and Poorly Designed Employee Rewards) Often Goes Badly. They, too, are deserving of recognition for their consistently high-quality work.

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Compensation Cafe

JANUARY 27, 2021

Editor's Note: Employee empowerment can be powerful and positive, but only if you have the right "scaffolding" in place to support the success of those empowered employees. It tells the story of a sales organization that ran an experiment in employee empowerment.

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Compensation Cafe

AUGUST 19, 2015

In the last week, a couple of research reviews have crossed my desk, both summarizing decades of research, surveys and analysis in the complex and many-layered topics of employee recognition, engagement and retention. Key findings of the report include (quoting): Employees who receive recognition are more likely to be engaged at work. Workers who receive recognition are less likely to quit. Compensation must be fair and appropriate or people will leave.

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Compensation Cafe

JUNE 26, 2018

What’s one of the least appreciated phrases for compensation professionals? Employee Experience. Why should you care if employees have a positive experience at work? Organizations that score in the top 25% on employee experience (as measured by the Employee Experience Index ), report nearly three times the return on assets and more than two times the return on sales as compared to organizations in the bottom quarter for employee experience.

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Compensation Cafe

APRIL 24, 2018

We’ve already debunked the myth that millennials need constant recognition. In fact, millennials – like all employees – need both positive and constructive feedback to deliver good work and grow their careers. This post on Forbes.com explains it well: “More and more, employees define loyalty as it pertains to the job at hand. The workplace has become transactional for the employee.”. How are you helping employees choose to remain loyal in your organization?

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Compensation Cafe

MARCH 18, 2015

That’s recognition enough.”. Pay and recognition serve very different needs, but they are in a symbiotic relationship when it comes to fulfilling those employee needs. All the recognition in the world won’t help resolve an underpaid employee’s base needs in terms of Maslow’s Hierarchy. And pay raises, consistently and appropriately given, won’t meet the higher-order employee needs, either. Employee recognition (91%).

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Compensation Cafe

JULY 21, 2015

UK-based HR Strategist Jon Ingham is an example (from his Strategic HCM blog) : “The issue is the wide variety in expectations of male and female employees. In a post on LinkedIn , Jon Ingham dug into the challenges of excessive executive pay at the expense of employees, highlighting the impact to employee engagement. “I There are many factors that contribute to employee disengagement, and a perceived lack of fairness surely rises to the top of that list.

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Compensation Cafe

JULY 30, 2020

Editor's Note: We sometimes get fuzzy the difference between recognition and compensation as implements in our rewards toolbox. I know readers of Compensation Cafe know this, but let me state the obvious – compensation and recognition are very different.

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Compensation Cafe

MAY 15, 2018

Crowdsourcing a portion of compensation through social recognition is an excellent example of how this works. As Globoforce’s Vice President of Client Strategy and Consulting, Derek Irvine is an internationally minded management professional with over 20 years of experience helping global companies set a higher ambition for global strategic employee recognition , leading workshops, strategy meetings and industry sessions around the world.

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Cornerstone On Demand

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

How often do you talk about pay with your employees? " The lack of communication around compensation leads employees to make their own assumptions about their worth — and how their paychecks stack up to their peers. A recent study from compensation software company PayScale found that among 71,000 people surveyed, an incredible 83 percent believed they were paid below market rate — even though 66 percent actually earned at or above market value.

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Compensation Cafe

AUGUST 23, 2021

Editor's Note: In this Classic post, a favorite of mine, Derek Irvine challenges us to see the difference between two types of "problem" employees and to realize the potential value of some of those squeaky wheels. . Do you have any “malcontent” employees ?

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Compensation Cafe

AUGUST 27, 2018

And good employers will make the effort to help employees understand how their work is meaningful to spark and fuel that passion over time. What does that mean for compensation pros? Yes, recognition and rewards matter. But first and foremost, ensuring employees are paid such that they can experience and a safe and secure existence as a foundation to future growth is the purview of responsible employers. Compensation Philosophy Total RewardsWhy do we work?

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Compensation Cafe

DECEMBER 23, 2021

He is a leader in the WorkHuman movement and the co-author of "The Power of Thanks" and his articles on fostering and managing a culture of appreciation through strategic recognition have been published in Businessweek, Workspan and HR Management. Recognition

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