Merit increase or bonus, how do you reward performance ?

Welcome back to Compensation Insider ! I wish you an excellent year and hope you will be visiting my site regularly 🙂 Given we are at the beginning of the year and most HR and Compensation experts are about to go through salary reviews and bonus payments, I thought it would be relevant to share…

Merry Christmas and see you in 2012 !

2011 has seen the launch of Compensation Insider. Since the end of August, I have written over 55 articles on different Performance Management, Compensation, Benefits, International Mobility and Governance topics. I would like to take this opportunity to thank my readers for their words of encouragement and some great quality comments. I feel honoured to…

Share the knowledge – December 2011

A bit early this month due to the Christmas holidays, but interesting nonetheless ! Some of the best or most relevant Compensation & Benefits, performance management, HR and/or global mobility articles that I came across recently : The Global Top 25 Companies for Leaders have been unveiled Career advice from women in HR As a…

The safeguards in salary benchmarking

Here is a paraphrase of a LinkedIn question asked recently : “How do you make sure each role benchmarked for salary purposes has the same responsibility ? Is there legislation on this ?” This is a question a Compensation specialist often gets from managers. Here is what you can reply when you get that question…

A follow-up on Zynga

So Zynga, the company behind hugely successful Farmville and other games on Facebook, eventually proceeded to its IPO last week. Despite raising 1 billion dollars (the largest tech IPO since Google), the stock value fizzled very rapidly, even on the first day : it was priced at 10 $ and closed at 9.45 $. This…

Pay transparency for all employees in some US government entities

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey publishes the salaries of its 6,777 employees on its website. The decision came after some criticism about how public money is spent and some controversy about payroll in this organisation. When I read this article, I have to admit being impressed by the level of transparency…

High Pay Commission report tackles excessive high compensation

Since the beginning of the global crisis, the topic of Executive Pay has been a major point of focus for many observers, journalists, economists, governance and  remuneration specialists, as well as the “man on the street”. Recent developments in the US have included the implementation of stricter rules regarding Say on Pay (shareholders voting on…