One of my recent posts covered the pros and cons of keeping compensation information confidential. There are positives to each side of the coin, but my view is that we should communicate as much as possible when it comes to Compensation and Benefits rules, entitlements and required contributions. There are too many drawbacks to not…
4 considerations when creating a job title structure
In today’s Reader Question, I will explore the topic of how to create a job title family for your organisation. One of my friends recently had to open a whole new area for the company she works at. For the sake of the post, let’s say her company operates in retail and construction, and it…
Compensation trends for 2012 – and how we communicate them
Although we are now officially in June and getting close to the mid-year mark, I thought I would share this infographic from Payscale. It illustrates compensation trends for 2012. I like it for 2 reasons : obviously because the topic is of relevance for this blog 🙂 because it is an infographic, it is a…
Catch up on the Human Assets Middle East Summit 2012
I was honoured to be one of the speakers at Naseba’s 7th Annual Human Assets Expansion – Middle East Summit. The conference turned out to be one of the best I have ever, attended in the region. The speakers were knowledgeable and entertaining, the audience was very active and engaged, there was enough time for…
Is the right person preparing your compensation survey file ?
Welcome to the final instalment in this May series on compensation surveys. After arguing why you should participate in compensation surveys and sharing 4 habits to simplify your preparation, and then 2 more tips to prepare the salary survey submission files, I gave some ideas of where you could look for information when benchmarking retail…
3 reasons why C&B needs project management skills
You need Project Management skills if you want to achieve success in Compensation & Benefits. 1 – Compensation professionals are always managing projects Some parts of HR have projects to manage on a regular basis, such as in Learning & Development for example. I believe however that C&B is the area of HR with the…



