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Focus on Employee Engagement
Focus on Employee Engagement Much has been said about employee engagement over the last few years as companies focus on maximizing employee productivity. Companies, regardless of their ability to bring in new talent, [...]
Compensation Planning & Salary Structure
Compensation Planning & Salary Structure It is the time of year when many organizations plan next year’s merit budget and salary structure adjustments. Perhaps you have read articles about how merit budgets are [...]
Recruiting: Share Benefits That Set You Apart
Recruiting: Share Benefits That Set You Apart With both the U.S and Seattle unemployment rates hovering around 3.5%, benefits are becoming a more significant bargaining chip when recruiting talent into organizations. Benefits can [...]
Compensation Structure Redux
Compensation Structure Redux Challenge: A biotech organization requested our assistance to achieve the following goals: Review existing strategies, practices and policies related to compensation across the organization Develop a robust compensation structure that [...]
Pros and Cons of a Salary Structure
Pros and Cons of a Salary Structure While having a salary structure is not required, having one certainly helps to control costs and plan for the future. From the perspective of a compensation [...]
Growing Pains + Internet Salary Data
Growing Pains + Internet Salary Data Challenge: A high-tech company had grown to a point where it was no longer feasible to have one or two individuals making pay decisions for the whole [...]
Pay-For-Performance Model
Pay-For-Performance Model Challenge: A large heavily unionized organization wanted to move to a pay-for-performance model for their non-union staff. There was concern that moving to a pay-for-performance model could result in additional unionization [...]
Implementing Geographic Pay
Implementing Geographic Pay With significant advances in technology and the availability of reliable internet service, professionals in every industry have the flexibility to work virtually anywhere. Distributed workforces with teams of employees and [...]
Discrimination and Internal Pay Equity Challenges
Discrimination and Internal Pay Equity Challenges Challenge: A professional services client was managing their pay differently in different parts of the organization. Concerns about pay discrimination and internal equity drove the need for [...]
Growing Pains: How to Remain Competitive in the Market
Growing Pains: How to Remain Competitive in the Market As small companies grow and add employees, the human resource practices that may have worked in the past may need more defined processes to [...]
Payroll Practice Inconsistency
Payroll Practice Inconsistency Challenge: Our client was concerned that employees were not being paid according to Human Resource (HR) policies and state and federal labor laws and regulations. Solution Deployed: We conducted a [...]
Competitive Pay Practice + Compensation Communication
Competitive Pay Practice + Compensation Communication Challenge: A client had no framework in place to determine if pay practices were competitive with the market, and managers were not savvy about administering and communicating [...]