I don’t do New Year resolutions any longer. I used to go through the ritual in the past, but my motivation, like for many people, never lasted long. After a few weeks or even a few days, I was back to my past behaviour and never gave these resolutions another look back… until the end…
Merit increase or bonus, how do you reward performance ?
January 3, 2012 by 4 Comments
Welcome back to Compensation Insider ! I wish you an excellent year and hope you will be visiting my site regularly 🙂 Given we are at the beginning of the year and most HR and Compensation experts are about to go through salary reviews and bonus payments, I thought it would be relevant to share…
Merry Christmas and see you in 2012 !
December 24, 2011 by Leave a Comment
2011 has seen the launch of Compensation Insider. Since the end of August, I have written over 55 articles on different Performance Management, Compensation, Benefits, International Mobility and Governance topics. I would like to take this opportunity to thank my readers for their words of encouragement and some great quality comments. I feel honoured to…
The safeguards in salary benchmarking
December 20, 2011 by 3 Comments
Here is a paraphrase of a LinkedIn question asked recently : “How do you make sure each role benchmarked for salary purposes has the same responsibility ? Is there legislation on this ?” This is a question a Compensation specialist often gets from managers. Here is what you can reply when you get that question…
Pay transparency for all employees in some US government entities
December 15, 2011 by Leave a Comment
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey publishes the salaries of its 6,777 employees on its website. The decision came after some criticism about how public money is spent and some controversy about payroll in this organisation. When I read this article, I have to admit being impressed by the level of transparency…
