Has Your Company Become Well Known As a Terrible Place to Work? It’s Time to Face Some Ugly Truths Maybe you don’t realize it. Or maybe you do and you just don’t care because you think you’re too busy. But somewhere along the line, it seems you created a monster. Your company is now a
Do’s & Don’ts About Leadership From Prominent NFL Teams Are You Like the Raiders or the Patriots? If you’ve got a player like Tom Brady of the New England Patriots on your team, you have a decision to make. Can you be a winner on the football field and at the bank? Brady is considered
Let Common Sense Dictate Your Sick Leave Policy How Does Your Sick Leave Policy Work? Depending on the philosophy your company takes, the issue of sick leave can be pretty contentious. Do you keep your sick leave separate from other time off? Do you hire someone specifically to track it? Or do you lump sick
Employees Who Work from Home Need Your Time & Energy Too Create and Maintain a Remote Workforce While it may seem like a massive challenge to manage remote employees, it can actually be quite similar to overseeing an in-office staff. Find out how to effectively manage a remote workforce with these tips. 6. Implement a
Hiring Work-at-Home Employees Might be the More Productive (and Cheaper) Option Work From Home Employees Have Advantages If you think all employees are created equal, think again. There are major differences between telecommuting employees in comparison to their in-office peers. Here are ways remote workers can shine brighter than that awful fluorescent lighting that’s currently
Pros & Cons of Hiring Superstar Employees Meet Martin In the mid 1990s I took a job at a growing startup. The delineation of talent at the office was pretty clear: Four partners (President, VP/Technology, VP/Sales, VP/Marketing) and four employees (Video producer, Graphic Designer, and two Application Developers). Then there was Martin. Martin didn’t work
Startups Should Highlight Advantages to Overcome Hiring Challenges How Startups Can Hire More Effectively You just got funded, congratulations! By now, you’ve likely accepted the condition of working with limited resources as the price for entrepreneurship. It’s not typical to receive carte blanche from your investors when it comes to paying yourself or your people.
How to Constructively Turn Down Someone Who Doesn’t Deserve a Raise What to Do When Average Doesn’t Cut It No doubt about it, your team is working hard. But one day, an employee pops into your office and subsequently asks for a raise. He’s a fairly good worker, but frankly he hasn’t done anything extraordinary
Honey Badger Don’t Care, But You Should The Honey Badger has developed a nasty reputation over the past couple of years, but does that make him unemployable? The Honey Badger recently applied for an Inside Sales position with Salary.com. In compliance with the EEOC, we at Salary.com have assessed the candidate’s qualifications against the 28
A Review of The OFCCP’s Compensation Directive 307 The Heat is On! Since the February 27, 2013 release of the latest iteration of the OFCCP’s stated procedures for investigating compensation discrimination (i.e., Directive 307 – effective February 28, 2013), there has been no shortage of webinars, blogs, and warnings from consultants and attorneys alike, providing
What a Waste Your employees are paid to provide a service, so ideally they would clock in for a designated number of hours and work as hard as they can in that time to produce maximum productivity and results. But since we’re dealing with human beings and not robots, we all know that’s not the
Salespeople are a company’s ambassadors to the world. They actively promote the company and its products and services. They are the front line between the company and its customers, and are typically the driving force of revenues – top-line company growth. These employees have a direct impact on how the marketplace perceives their employer
Until it became common practice in the last decade to offer stock options to a relatively broad spectrum of employees, most people were content to receive stock options at all. Now, more savvy about compensation if bruised by the market downturn, employees more typically wonder whether the options they are offered are competitive with what
The intent of this article is to explain the components of an Employee Stock Option Plan to Human Resources professionals and managers that may need to explain the complexities of a plan to employees. Stock option plans are the large contracts that govern stock options programs. Stock option agreements are the individual options grants, vesting
It Starts With the CEO Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) get paid lots of money for being the top employees in the company. Why do they get paid so much? Like athletes and actors, CEOs provide a level of talent that is required to produce the desired product – in this case, a strongly performing company.
Pay Structures A company’s pay structure is the method of administering its pay philosophy. The two leading types of pay structures are the internal equity method, which uses a tightly constructed grid to ensure that each job is compensated according to the jobs above and below it in a hierarchy, and market pricing, where each
A Good Pay Philosophy Attracts, Retains, and Motivates Employees What are Pay Philosophies? A pay philosophy is a company’s commitment to how it values employees. A consistent pay philosophy gives the company and the employee a frame of reference when discussing salary in a negotiation. The goal of a pay philosophy is to attract, retain,
As a largely people-based industry, the Pharmaceutical industry has gone through, and continues to go through, significant reinvention. This makes for dynamic talent and skills management challenges such as: Maximum impact of M&A Accelerated education and adoption for new products Consistent best practice marketing and sales behaviors Accelerated onboarding in high-turnover positions Capitalizing on institutional
Employees in approximately one-third of all companies are eligible for bonuses of some kind. Bonuses are given to employees to serve the following purposes: to create incentives to reduce costs; to pay people for doing a good job; and to encourage employees to think like shareholders. Bonuses reflect employees’ level of responsibility in the organization,
We can Google a checklist for anything these days, and workplace diversity is no exception. Diversity checklists from numerous countries show up in the search, reminding us that workplace diversity is of global interest—we are working within a globalized economy and within a multicultural workforce. Organizations that do not have a strong diversity and inclusion
