Say on Pay is currently the largest driver of change in the world of executive compensation. This provision of the ...
Archive for year: 2011
Cheater Cheater Integrity Eater: Teachers and Pay for Performance
Some people say the recent cheating scandal in Atlanta area schools gives rise to the ugly side of performance-based pay....
How is Pay for Performance like Driving a Fire Truck?
San Francisco has lots of tall buildings, so we need those cool ladder fire trucks that you see in the...
Defining Pay for a Compensation Unicorn
At a recent client engagement, the HR department described a specific position they were having a hard time trying to...
How Much Money to do a Job You Don’t Want?
Companies are trudging their way through this slow and often painful economic recovery. Reorganization has become a mantra of survival,...
Equity Compensation: Gift, Reward or Lease?
Skype as been vilified for buying back shares from vested and exercised stock options (see details here and here). The ...
The P90X Workout and Effective Performance Compensation
I like finding unique training tools for compensation professionals. My newest addition is the P90X training system. For those of...
Compensation: A Foundation Like a Ship, Not a Building
This concept came to me at a recent compensation philosophy engagement. During an employee interview session I explained that the...
They Still Create New Music with the Old 12 Notes, You Can Do the Same with Compensation
The basic scale used in western music incorporates 12 notes. The scale has only five lives (staves). This combination of...
Total Rewards and a Farmers Market Strategy
It is fact that poor food choices lead to poor health. Of course, there are many other contributors, but when...