Imagine the scene – you won’t have much problem doing so as I’m sure you have faced a similar situation in the past 🙂 : It’s August. The Head of Accounting calls you and theatrically announces : “There is something wrong in what you decided to pay my employee Hassan ! He is underpaid and…
Happy Holidays and see you in 2013 !
December 20, 2012 by 2 Comments
2012 was a great year for Compensation Insider. I posted 3 times a week as planned and readership grew through the year, beyond the goals I’d set for myself at the beginning of the year. Thanks to you my readers and this increased visibility, I was approached to become a media partner at conferences in…
As an expat, do I long for my home country ?
December 18, 2012 by Leave a Comment
This instance of Reader Question will give you a very personal interpretation of the answer. I hope to encourage you to think about the meaning of home, origins/roots and sense of belonging, as we are nearing a time of the year where many of us reconnect (or long to) with our families for Christmas and…
Why is “soft stuff” so hard really, at least to assess ?
December 13, 2012 by 2 Comments
As year-end approaches, we are all in the process of evaluating how well we did this year, and we are (or at least, some of us are) also thinking about objectives and goals for the coming 12 months. As part of your self appraisal, you surely find it natural to evaluate your performance based on…
An important day for females in the UAE… and beyond
December 11, 2012 by 2 Comments
On Sunday (December 9, 2012), His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum chaired a Cabinet meeting and made a series of announcements through his official Twitter account @HHShkMohd. Here is the one I want to celebrate today : We have also made a decision to make the representation of women, in all the boards…
Cleaning misspelled names in Excel
December 9, 2012 by Leave a Comment
HR and Compensation pros often receive data from many different sources, and one of the first challenges is often the fact that the names of the employees have been input with spelling mistakes, which makes the use of the information almost impossible. My first comment, as usual, is to use the Employee ID number as…
