What’s the secret sauce to creating a culture rife with recognition, one that keeps employees feeling valued, seen, and heard? Many organizations believe … Read more
The Problem With Incentive Plan Cliffs
Triggers and hurdles and cliffs, oh my! To be clear, I’m talking about pay plan mechanics and in particular about the kind of cliff that plays an … Read more
“We Have a Pay-For-Performance Program” Not!
My business career has spanned a long time and working from both sides of the desk. First as a compensation practitioner filling out survey questionnaires … Read more
Individual Performance Is Not Enough; We Need a Way to Measure Teams
Employee engagement, aligning talent and business strategies; these are perennial problems for HR professionals. Here in the United Kingdom, as far back as … Read more
What to Do When You Need to Ignore Your Pay Survey
Data, data, data. We live, love and dream about data here at PayScale, and big data is driving business and pay decisions across industries and functions. … Read more
When Everyone is ‘Above Average’ No One Is
Note: This is the last of three articles dealing with managing performance and compensation in the post-ratings organization. Monday’s article … Read more
What Do You Do After Ending Performance Ratings?
Note: This is the first of three articles dealing with managing performance and compensation in the post-ratings organization. The second article on bonus … Read more
Yes, You Can Eliminate the Annual Review, Improve Engagement and Still Get Workforce Metrics
By now, we have all noticed the overwhelming trend to ditch performance rating scales and instead, have performance appraisals and performance management … Read more
Do You Know What A Bonus Is?
I’ve had an important lesson reinforced for me. I’m reminded again, via many conversations with employees and managers, of the wide range of … Read more
How to Link Pay to Performance When You’ve Eliminated Reviews
Performance management is definitely undergoing a midlife crisis; it’s time for it to reinvent itself. For the past few HR and compensation conferences … Read more
Does it Make Sense to Make Comp Decisions Without Any Link to Performance?
My job involves helping companies use technology to increase workforce productivity. This has taught me there is no one “best practice” when it comes to … Read more
Compensation Will Be Just Fine Without Your Dysfunctional Performance Appraisals
I have been calling for the death of traditional, scored performance appraisals for a long time. Today, there is a chorus of voices singing this same hymn. … Read more
Are Annual Raises Dead? Only If You Don’t Want to Gain a Competitive Advantage
An article last week from CNBC, with data from Towers Watson and Aon Hewitt, showed that the annual pay raise is essentially dead (and in Towers Watson’s … Read more
New Year, Same Story: 2016 Forecast Is For Another Year of 3% Raises
If you were thinking all the recent news of job growth signaled a big comeback for the U.S. economy, think again — because another economic indicator … Read more
The Challenges Managing Pay in a Small, Entrepreneurial Organization
I had the chance recently to join a group of HR professionals who serve entrepreneurial, small to mid-sized organizations to talk about the realities and … Read more
A Paycheck Is Not Enough Recognition for a Job Well Done
One statement sure to raise my ire when discussing the Power of Thanks in the workplace is: “They get paid to do their job. That’s recognition enough.” … Read more
The Problem When You Have a Pay-For-Pulse Compensation Strategy
Picture the scene: Your company doesn’t have enough money in the annual merit spend budget to grant more than an average 2 percent increase to … Read more
World Cup Success Means a Big Payout, But Does It Motivate Anyone?
Germany defeated Argentina to win the coveted FIFA Trophy last weekend, and one of the most tumultuous World Cups in recent history finally came to a … Read more
Stacked Ranking: A Pay For Performance Model You Need to Avoid
Ann Bares recently wrote a predictive article here on TLNT about the potential end of merit pay (How Will We Pay With Open Salaries and No Performance … Read more
Traditional Salary Systems Are Going the Way of the Dinosaurs
What is the future of salary management? If current trends continue, employers will be forced to adopt a new program model. Here are the reasons: First, … Read more