OR . . . . . Culture and Market – How The Brady Bunch and LeBron James Fit In
Earlier this month, I was attending a networking event through TCSHRM (Twin Cities Society for Human Resource Management) and ran into a long-time friend. (Thank you Larry...
Can you ask a person’s salary history? Does it matter what they make or made? Doesn’t the company have a range they work from?
These are great questions – and have been asked for what seems to be forever – since I first entered the human...
It's summer - and it has been a beautiful one so far (yes - it is officially still spring). The weather is great; people seem to be in a positive place - the economy appears to be slowly recovering (lumpy recovery, but the trajectory seems positive). What better time to...
A 'simple' question - but one that evokes terror and concern whenever it is heard. Only four words - yet they have incredible power.
Terror - why do they need to know? How do I approach it?
Concern - what if I make too much? What if I make too...
This is not going to be a political 'rant' . . . . . but a question based on some research conducted for a class I recently attended as a guest lecturer. I was invited by Kathleen Lafferty, Director of HR for Hanley Wood Marketing and...
I am not an executive compensation expert. We work with compensation packages on every search; we have an amazing amount of information (we ask every candidate we pursue about their compensation package). We are able to give good market data to our clients.
I started...
The quality of being clear and transparent
The 2010 theme for compensation programs at all levels appears to be Transparency. I decided to look for definitions of this word/concept on the Internet. The first is mentioned in the above headline. The second is a...
Pay for Performance - it is what we all say we want (in good economic times - and assuming we think of ourselves as great performers) and it appears to be what companies, more and more often, want to...
Whenever we conduct a search - regardless of position level, function or industry - we ask each prospective candidate for their current salary information. In almost all cases, we get current salary and bonus/commission information. The result is that for each position,...