My business career has spanned a long time and working from both sides of the desk. First as a compensation practitioner filling out survey questionnaires … Read more
Chuck Csizmar CCP is founder and Principal of CMC Compensation Group, providing global compensation consulting services to a wide variety of industries and non-profit organizations. He is also associated with several HR consulting firms as a contributing consultant. Chuck is a broad based subject matter expert with a specialty in international and expatriate compensation. He lives in Central Florida (near The Mouse) and enjoys growing fruit and managing (?) a clowder of cats.
When They Wear Two Hats, How Do You Decide Pay?
The competitive market pricing of jobs for an organization is relatively straightforward when looking at common benchmark roles – the ones that you can … Read more
Your Merit Pay Program Has a Fatal Flaw
It’s likely that your pay-for-performance program has a fatal flaw built into it; an inadvertent side effect of the design that, if ignored by … Read more
Why a Compensation Strategy Is a Must
How many of you reading this article have a piece of paper that you can lay your hands on, one with the title, “Compensation Strategy”? Do you know if such … Read more
What Do You Do When Your Preliminary Data Comes Back to Haunt You?
Have you ever found yourself in a situation where someone (usually your boss or a higher-up) makes an announcement or a decision using draft or preliminary … Read more
What Do You Do When a Job Candidate Pushes Back on Salary?
It’s not unusual in the recruiting process for a candidate to balk at the company’s initial salary offer. Sometimes in their pushback they … Read more
Does Performance Matter? Today, It’s More About Image, Politics, and Being a Player
Have you ever wondered why some employees in your organization are recognized and moved upward, while others with more impressive credentials, experience, … Read more
Reflections of a Compensation Pro: Things I’ve Seen That Drive Me a Little Nuts
I’ve worked in Compensation my entire career. Spent most of it in Corporate America and now, for a bunch of years, as a global consultant. I love … Read more
Learning From Lousy: You Can Take Away Good From the Bad, Too
It’s often said that each of us can learn a great deal from having a good boss to work for, a solid role model of just how a manager is supposed to … Read more
Low-Balling a Candidate: Worth a Pat on the Back, or a Boot in the Butt?
Picture the scene: Your company is seeking to employ a Department Manager, and the leading candidate is currently “in transition.” Human Resources has … Read more
Are You Just Treading Water When You Really Need to Swim?
Have you ever found yourself relaxed in a comfy chair, either warm by the fire or enjoying a good read with a favorite beverage close by? Perhaps … Read more
The Problem When You Have a Pay-For-Pulse Compensation Strategy
Picture the scene: Your company doesn’t have enough money in the annual merit spend budget to grant more than an average 2 percent increase to … Read more
Crafting an Effective Job Description: How to Actually Do It Right
I’ve written before about how managers hated job descriptions. Now, let’s take a fresh perspective and look at how writing descriptions should be … Read more
Why Managers Absolutely Hate to Write Job Descriptions
Every employee out there, no matter what their job, has certain tasks or responsibilities as part of their role that they enjoy doing. Likewise, there are … Read more
Spreading the Peanut Butter: Across-the-Board Pay Hikes Are a Bad Idea
“Spreading the peanut butter” is a term used by one of my international clients to describe a general increase, the granting of an … Read more
Remember Your Pay Structure? It’s Likely You’re Not Doing Enough
You’ve seen your company’s want ads and heard the pitch from your recruiters; you offer competitive pay to qualified candidates. That’s … Read more
Sometimes, A Little More Raise Can Make a Lot of Difference
You just received an above average performance rating from your boss, which naturally put a large smile on your face. But, that was subsequently wiped away … Read more
Does Your Organization Ignore (and Maybe Reward) Bad Behavior at Work?
Nice guys finish last. We’ve all heard that phrase before. Which probably means that there’s something to it. Now why is that? Because … Read more
Pay Secrets, or Why Don’t We Post the Salary Structure on the Office Wall?
To what extent is your compensation program transparent to employees, or on the other hand, how much is kept a big secret? Early in my career I worked for … Read more
What Happens When Superstars Don’t Get Much More Than Joe Average?
You just received an above average performance rating from your manager, which naturally put a big grin on your face. Which was subsequently wiped away … Read more