17 days ago by Ann Bares

I picked up an interesting fact during a recent dive into WorldatWork's 2009/10 Salary Budget Survey: General increases have experienced a surge in popularity in 2009, growing in prevalence by more than 44% over 2008 among surveyed employers. Recent conversations with a few clients as well as commen ...

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18 days ago by IRSTaxSupport.com

The Treasury Department is expected in the next few days to order companies that received huge government bailouts last year to slash the base salaries of their top executives by an average of 90 percent and cut their total compensation in half, according to a person familiar with the matter. The cu ...

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47 days ago by Margaret O'Hanlon

Over the last two weeks, my posts have summarized 10 different ways to slice your teeny, tiny 2009 merit budget and described 10 tools to help you create the communication plan. Next decision, what are you going to say to employees? Many employees are not as patient as they once were, even if they a ...

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56 days ago by Terri Albee

After watching lots of football this weekend — both college and pro — I began once again to wonder about the logic of employment contracts. Only two games into the college season many coaches are already under fire. In every case, two bad games isn’t the problem. It’s two bad games on top of some ba ...

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56 days ago by Ann Bares

Increasingly, job titles are seen as a currency with which to attract, retain and reward employees when hard dollars are limited or unavailable. A recent study from Pearl Meyer and Partners, When Times are Tough, Titles Matter, confirms this fact, noting that a number of the 388 responding companies ...

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60 days ago by Terri Albee

A good many of us, including my fellow Cafe bloggers, have been talking about performance management and how to divvy up the small merit budgets this year. Meanwhile, I've been pondering a dilemma that plays along those same lines. Occasionally -- in the performance management process, the salary in ...

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61 days ago by Ann Bares

If recent research is any indicator, the squeaky wheels may begin singing in earnest sometime soon. According to a recent study conducted for Robert Half International and CareerBuilder, 28% of the full-time employees surveyed indicate that they plan to ask for a raise after the economy improves. I ...

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69 days ago by Becky Regan

Recently the Wall Street Journal published an article, "Staying in the Game With Help on the Sidelines," about how executive coaching is still in demand, even in a recession. Individual executives as well as companies are paying $300 per hour or more to develop their senior leaders and rising stars. ...

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69 days ago by Darcy Dees

As Compensation professionals we’ve all had to have the conversation with someone who believes they’re underpaid. Some of those conversations were likely with people who truly were underpaid, but many more were likely paid a fair wage. There are a variety of reasons why people believe are worth more ...

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73 days ago by Ann Bares

Salary grade creep, in my experience, is rarely a "universal" problem in most organizations. More often, there is a particular manager - or group of managers - who seem to have made it their life mission to exert a continued push against the pay grade structure. The question is: why? I got an intere ...

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