Of all the functions in an FQHC, human resources seems to be the one that has a “personality,” frequently reflecting its leader, and that is very rarely a good thing. Every function [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Every year we provide our clients, colleagues and the world at large with our recommended resolutions for improving the effectiveness of their compensation programs. This year the theme of our [...]
Carefully think through how your current compensation program works — if you can’t answer some simple questions, you should go back to the beginning and make sure you’ve got the [...]
The impending New Year brings the opportunity to start anew, always with the assumption that we are moving on to bigger and better things. Resolutions have to be made on an existing solid [...]
SUMMARY Employees in an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) company have more interest in their company’s compensation program than most everyone else — not just in their own compensation, [...]
While this is known primarily as a human resources focused blog, we frequently reach out into other areas of FQHC operations when they have an impact on what we do. Right now, the biggest hot [...]
Merces Consulting Group, Inc. (Merces) is conducting a survey of medical, dental and behavioral health provider compensation and productivity in the Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) [...]
