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…
How many points on your performance rating scale ?
October 25, 2011 by 5 Comments
In this instalment of Reader Question, I deal with a common issue when designing the performance appraisal system. I was asked recently about the number of points you should have on the rating scale for your performance management system. Which number is right ? 3 ? 4 ? 5 ? or even 6 or 7…
Emiratisation and Compensation & Benefits – part II
October 20, 2011 by Leave a Comment
In my previous post I covered the basic elements that Compensation professionals can use in order to support emiratisation efforts in their organisation : salary ranges, allowances, KPIs and incentives. Today we will look at other aspects that you can focus on. Performance management Do you want to have different, and somewhat easier, objectives and…
Emiratisation and Compensation & Benefits – part I
October 18, 2011 by 4 Comments
With the government’s recent push on emiratisation, and similar decisions in the other GCC countries, Compensation & Benefits professionals have a role to play in supporting the attraction, retention and growth of UAE Nationals in both the private and the government sectors. In Emiratisation : the way forward ?, Jane Williams from INSEAD explains in…
Percentiles – an easy way to “figure it out”
October 16, 2011 by 3 Comments
This Sunday Skills is about percentiles. It is a very useful concept in Compensation & Benefits, yet I have struggled to find an easy-to-understand definition of it and how to easily “calculate” it. This article in Connexions explains that today there is not an agreed definition of percentile, in the sense that it can be…
No, no one becomes a Compensation Manager in 2 days !
October 13, 2011 by 17 Comments
Today’s Career Corner is a rant about the so-called “certifications” that are offered in the region on the topic of Compensation & Benefits and Performance Management. I had already planned to write about certifications, but what I received in my LinkedIn inbox 2 days ago made me jump and I decided to post my reaction…
