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 [...]
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, [...]
In a decision issued July 16, 2015, the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ruled that claims of lesbian, gay and bisexual individuals may be brought to the EEOC under [...]
I was born in 1991. I had my first cell phone in middle school, my first email address when I was probably 10. And yes, I was given the much derided participation trophies and ribbons. But which [...]
Okay, I’ve had it. Normally, while known for being opinionated about my profession, and having climbed up on several metaphorical soap boxes in my time, I can take a lot. Today, not so [...]
Last week I had the opportunity to spend several days with a new client working through a job evaluation exercise. What makes this client somewhat unique is that the CEO is their former VP of [...]
Family-owned businesses provide unique management challenges in a number of ways, not the least of which is the compensation paid to family members. In this post, I will briefly examine some of [...]
There are competing problems in compensation management to deal with, competing mostly to be the factor that creates the most bad decisions — a misguided direction toward over-reliance on [...]
The IRS Form 990 is the tax return filed by not-for-profit organizations, and also a significant document for the disclosure of information concerning the policies and practices of the [...]
Like any other field of study, the conclusions drawn by authors suggesting courses of action to be taken by their readers require that the underlying facts and logic be sound. It is clear from [...]
