CNET.com reported a few days ago on an article from the Wall Street Journal about Zynga, the company that created Farmville, the famous game that everyone seems to be playing on Facebook. It seems that in view of their planned IPO (they are due to go to the stock exchange in the coming days), some…
New hires vs employees : 3 salary situations and how to handle them
October 6, 2011 by 1 Comment
Imagine the scene : you are sitting at your desk, happily going along your normal HR activities, when an employee (let’s call him John) enters your office and expresses some concern over his compensation. More specifically, he says, he knows that some of his former colleagues at his previous employer, “who were earning the exact…
7 steps to compensation programme design – the basics
September 20, 2011 by 4 Comments
I am often asked how to go about a new plan design, or a total revamp of an existing one. How should one approach it ? Is there a methodology ? In my mind there are 7 basic steps to take in order to design a good plan in Compensation & Benefits. They apply whether…
