A Bad Rep When It Comes to Hiring Will Lead to Less Qualified Applicants Listen to Honest Feedback Think about the last time someone turned down a job offer you tendered. How did that feel? You can tell me it’s none of my business and I won’t be offended, but that gut-kick response does
Handled the Right Way, Problem Employees Can Become Valuable Contributors Fix the Problem the Right Way For the most part, your team is great. They like to collaborate and share ideas, they’re supportive, and they’re (fairly) punctual. (They even got you a Happy Birthday Colossal Crumbs cupcake for your birthday!) But there is one employee
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
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
Telecommuting Can Be a Win-Win As an employer, you might be tempted to go the traditional route of having all your employees in the office all the time. But even though it’s tempting and understandable to want to keep an eye on the people you’re paying, businesses can benefit greatly when their workers telecommute. Here’s
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
Employers benefit from having both formal performance review and compensation review cycles. Many companies have a semiannual performance review cycle. One of the two reviews often coincides with the normal annual salary review while the other is used sparingly for special or off-cycle salary adjustments. This formal process is helpful because it allows the employer
Competencies Help Determine Skills & Qualifications for Every Position The Importance of Competencies During a recent webinar about competencies, two points really stood out: competencies can be an integral part of performance management systems, and, you don’t have to expend time and energy building competency models from scratch. Not when we for Business can do that
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
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
About Stock Options One of the biggest challenges facing employers is recruiting and retaining qualified, dedicated employees. Over the past decade, with unemployment levels low and the economy doing well, one of the ways businesses in many industries were recruiting the best possible talent and keeping those employees happy was by offering stock options. For
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
Bad Habits That Can Destroy Your Workplace Productivity Why Your Employees are Are Fighting Are your employees bickering constantly? Is it affecting productivity? It’s worth your while to get to the root of the problem and figure out what’s causing all the angst. Fighting amongst co-workers in close quarters is inevitable. After all, you can’t
Survey Finds More Employees Unhappy & Looking for New Jobs Constantly Will Your Workers Jump Ship? “I’m so sick of this job. I swear, this year I’m outta here!” You may not think so, but it’s more probable than not that your employees are at that point. Forget the fact that the decision to actively
“Hands-Off” Managers Hurt Employee Retention Is “Hands-Off” a Good Idea? It has taken forever to fill that open position on your team, and now you want to get through the next few weeks with as little effort as possible. Just follow this handy guide to make the new hire experience easy for you, the “hands-off”
See How Corporate Policies About Tattoos Affect Hiring, Retention Maybe it’s a tribal arm band, orchids on the lower back playing peek-a-boo with coworkers, or—gulp!—they’re wearing it on their face a la Mike Tyson. But even if it’s that cute little leprechaun on their ankle, our latest survey results show visible tattoos at work could
Employee Retention Myths and Tips EMPLOYER MYTH #1: Employees are browsing but not actively looking around for new jobs FACT: Over 60% of employees are actively looking to leave their employer within the next three months. Additionally, the intensity of employees’ job search is grossly underestimated by many employers. Many employers understand that their employees
