What are useful retail compensation surveys and benchmarks in EMEA ?

Fourth instalment in my monthly theme of Compensation Surveys. We have covered so far Why you should participate to compensation surveys, 4 habits to simplify participating to compensation surveys, and 2 more tips to prepare your files for submission to compensation surveys. Today I will share my reply to a question that a contact on…

2 more tips to prepare your files for submission to compensation surveys

Third post in my monthly theme around Compensation Surveys. So far I have covered Why you should participate to compensation surveys as well as 4 habits to simplify your participation to salary surveys. Today let me give 2 more tips to help you prepare your submission. Employee identification In a survey you should always strive…

4 habits to simplify participating to compensation surveys

This week’s instalment of my monthly theme includes a few habits that I developed to make my life easier when comes the time to participate to compensation surveys. Right now in the UAE, you must be thinking about collecting the data and preparing it to submit to the various providers that you have selected as…

Why you should participate to compensation surveys

Today marks the launch of an experiment in my blogging. As you know, I post 3 times per week, with some topics coming on a regular basis. I want to try something out and introduce a Theme of the Month. Through this new approach, I want to provide a bit of consistency to my posts,…

Compensation provider Birches Group extends its reach in the region – an interview with Warren Heaps

My friend Warren Heaps is a Partner at Birches Group, an independent consulting firm specialised in providing compensation information in over 180 emerging and developing countries. Birches Group very recently announced that they have entered into an agreement with Aon Hewitt, one of the major global compensation consultancies. Under the partnership, Aon Hewitt will make…

Should you rely on free compensation data from magazines and recruitment organisations?

Recently a few recruitment organisations have issued free “salary guides” for certain countries or industries. Magazines, whether business oriented or focused to the individual consumer, also run regular reports and guides with exciting titles like “Are you paid enough ?”. There are even websites where you can get free pay information (say, regarding a position…

The safeguards in salary benchmarking

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…