How to get started in your new Compensation job

One day, one of my acquaintances on LinkedIn wrote to me. His company never had job descriptions and he wanted me to share some of the JDs from my team. He also asked how to get started as he was getting into his new position as Performance and Compensation Manager. Here is some of the…

How do you link performance management and a performance-driven culture ?

Today’s Reader Question comes from the comments on one my recent posts, “Percentiles – an easy way to figure it out”. Ahsan asked : “In your opinion how do you link performance management in building a performance driven culture in the organization?” First of all let’s make the assumption that all companies are looking to…

Pensions landscape – Europe and GCC part II

My latest post was covering the aging population in Europe, and the impact it has on pensions. Today we will go through what is happening in the GCC. Expat pensions In the mean time in the GCC, the situation is pretty different. Here, we have very young countries where only the local citizens are eligible…

Pensions landscape – Europe and GCC part I

I was recently in discussion with an Emirati friend. The topic of our conversation was retirement/pensions and how different it is between Europe and the GCC. We talked about the pension landscape in both regions, and what is happening towards pensions approaches as a result. In today’s post I will cover Europe, and my next…

What is your approach to aging ?

… I’m referring to aging salary survey data, of course 🙂 The big compensation providers are starting to return the results of their 2011 surveys, and now is the time to get started on the analysis of the data. So, a few months ago, you participated to the survey. The data you submitted was dated…

How RSS feeds and News Readers can help Compensation & Benefits

Today I want to share a little bit of web advice, in the form of RSS feeds and how to use them in Compensation & Benefits. What is an RSS feed and how to use it ? RSS feeds allow you to stay up to date with the latest news and updates from your favourite…

Share the knowledge – October 2011

In this month’s Share the Knowledge, I have curated some great content for you. So get ready to dive into interesting reading ! General Compensation & Benefits Rosario Longo on balancing between basic and variable pay – don’t get deterred by the white letters on balck background or the relatively academic tone, Rosario’s posts are…