Before I returned to Merces Consulting, I spent many years working on my own and raising my family. During that time I managed to keep busy doing independent consulting, the majority of which [...]
Resolution #8 – Examine your base pay program from the perspective of employees, and ask yourself whether they can “predict” changes to their pay. For the vast majority of jobs, hourly wages or [...]
Better data drives better decisions. To help FQHCs make sense of the “information” they are getting on trends in family practice provider recruiting, Merces conducted a one-week [...]
Resolution #7 – Link performance management programs directly to the expectations of the job as outlined in effective job descriptions. We’ve mentioned this before, but it bears repeating [...]
The concern over gender pay differentials in society today is significant. Like many other issues, it has become politicized and polarized, with more people seemingly wanting to shout the other [...]
Resolution #6 – Forget last year, general increases and the “what have you done for me lately merit increase” approach and refocus individual compensation adjustments on what [...]
Resolution #5 – Eliminate “across the board adjustments” and move to individual adjustments. Let’s just lay this out on the table – “across the board adjustments,” “general [...]
