Compensation

Many health centers are only now developing the type of compensation programs they need to support their ever more complex organizations.  However, they are learning to do so at a particularly [...]

Some years ago, the compensation profession turned its back on the sensible pay programs that had been growing and evolving throughout the business world, and allowed itself to fall prey to [...]

Yes, you heard me correctly, your “bona fide” merit program perpetuates gender pay inequity.   It is not hard to figure out… if women take time out from the workforce, they will [...]

The “compa-ratio” is such a silly and deceptive “metric” that even not knowing much at 25 years old (longer ago than I care to admit) I could not bring myself to use it in [...]

For those who haven’t read Daniel Pink’s “Drive,” the best-selling book on what really motivates us today, make the time to do so, because it will illustrate to you quite [...]

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 [...]

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 #4 – Reconsider your organization’s “minimum wage” in light of all of the costs associated with being cheap The December 14, 2015 issue of Crain’s Detroit [...]

In preparation for our “2016 Compensation Resolutions #3” post on the need to rely on internal equity planning over the vagaries of using market data in establishing compensation programs, I [...]