Combatting Self Interest in Pay

Sep 14,2015September 14, 2015
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Professor Dylan Selterman (@SelterMosby) is a psychology lecturer at the University of Maryland. Earlier this summer he gave his students...

HR Can’t Afford to Ignore Compensation

Jun 18,2015June 18, 2015
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A generous person gave three business partners $1 million and said they could use it however they wanted. The only...

Silence Isn’t Golden

Jun 03,2015June 3, 2015
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I hope your employees aren’t complaining about your compensation programs. If they are complaining out loud, then the problem has...

The Best Performance Goals Are D.U.M.B.

May 13,2015May 13, 2015
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Anyone who has taken a class or performed a Google-search on performance goals has learned about the concept of “SMART”...