Note: This is the second in a 4-part series on compensation practices for small companies. In this series Margaret O’Hanlon shows how a small company … Read more
The Case For Scrapping Your Long Term Incentives
If you’re like most companies, you provide stock options, restricted stock grants, and other long-term-incentives to your senior executives. But do … Read more
3 Steps You Can Take to Close the Gender Pay and Opportunity Gaps
Gender pay data can be examined in a number of different ways, but no matter how you slice it, the pay gap still exists. The most recent research by … Read more
Your Exec Pay Survey May Be Costing You Too Much
As proxy season comes to a close each year, compensation specialists face the tall task of compiling significant amounts of newly reported executive … Read more
Digging Into Executive Pay: Is It Really Out of Control?
The Securities and Exchange Commission approved a rule this month that will require publicly traded companies to disclose the ratio of CEO pay to the … Read more
Gravity Payments Proves That Paying Everyone Equally Is an Equally Bad Idea
Many of you may have read about Gravity Payments, the company in Seattle with the magnanimous CEO who decided to do the right thing. In April, CEO Dan … Read more
Excessive Pay Is STILL Excessive – and the Boss Still Needs Skin in the Game
In 1991, Bud Crystal released the book In Search of Excess, a scathing commentary on executive pay. I was a newly minted Compensation Consultant in a large … Read more
Traditional Salary Systems Are Going the Way of the Dinosaurs
What is the future of salary management? If current trends continue, employers will be forced to adopt a new program model. Here are the reasons: First, … Read more
When It Comes to Pay, Everything in Moderation – Including Moderation
Compensation professionals do a lot of moderating. We work to moderate expectations. We work to moderate misunderstandings with incentive pay. And … Read more
CEO Pay Ratio Disclosure: 8 Things HR Professionals Need to Know Now
By Joni L. Andrioff In September, the Securities Exchange Commission approved proposed rules on calculating the ratio of the chief executive officer’s … Read more
Which Comes First, the Pay or the Performance?
It’s an age-old negotiation. Pay me more and I will perform. Perform better and I will pay you. So what comes first, the payment or the performance? Hay … Read more
CEO Pay: Why Not More Outrage Over Other Highly Paid People?
Why do so many of us get so bent out of shape about CEO compensation, but not about that of other relatively highly paid people? That is the central … Read more
Executive Compensation Rising, But Nowhere Near Pre-Recession Levels
In the years leading up to the recession, the talent market was hot. Unemployment in 2007 was hovering in the 4.5 percent range and U.S. GDP growth – while … Read more
Solving People’s Pay Angst: It’s About Clarity, Process — and Fairness
As an independent advisor, I am often called in to help with situations where compensation has become a very emotional and even intractable problem. Having … Read more
The First Lie That You Hear in HR
Many of you are now aware that Peyton Manning, All Pro NFL quarterback, was released by the Indianapolis Colts (I wrote about it here). Long story short, … Read more
Salary Increases for 2011: What Part of 3% Don’t You Understand?
To Our Readers: This week, TLNT is continuing our annual tradition by counting down the 30 most popular and well-read posts of this past year. This is No. … Read more
All You Need to Know About 2012 Pay Raises: “3 Percent is the New 4 Percent”
Everybody knows that pay raises and salary increases have only edged up slightly from the worst of the Great Depression years (unless you are a CEO or work … Read more
Tomorrow on TLNT Radio: Maximizing Employee Benefits, Executive Compensation and Ethics
Last week we talked to attorney and TLNT contributor Eric B. Meyer about some of the latest rule clarifications and changes handed down from the NLRB and … Read more
Should You Really Lose Two Years Of Pay For Poor Performance?
Let me lay out a scenario for you: Your top sales director is the day-to-day contact for your largest client. And by large, I mean 25-30 percent of your … Read more
Latest Tax Return Gives Insight Into SHRM’s Executive Pay Practices
Like businesses all across the globe, SHRM had to dip into its reserves to cover expenses in 2009 when it came up $8.7 million short. The organization’s … Read more