NERDALERT BLOG
Your Comp Consultant Might Be Hurting You
Not literally - consultants are generally good people. But their marketing teams might be sharing information that is making your job harder. In the Fall, media outlets love to publish storied about the raises American [...]
Measuring Pay for Performance (with Perspective)
If there is one buzz phrase I've heard a lot in my career, it is "pay for performance." We like to apply it in all sorts of scenarios - commission design, consideration of piece-rate pay [...]
Let’s Stop Making the Irrelevant More Efficient
If you haven't heard of Lucy Adams, you are missing out. Lucy Adams is a reformed HR practitioner, formerly the HR Director at the BBC, who has written and consults on transforming the way [...]
How to Talk About Survey Results
This morning I was listening to a podcast, which included the host commenting on the results of a recent research study. The research findings included a number of things high performing companies were more or [...]
Time to Kill The Annual Merit Process?
Employees aren't satisfied or motivated. Managers hate the work and the communication. And HR knows it doesn't solve the problems it should. So why do we do it? This is a question we've been asking [...]
The Comp Function Needs to Change
Last night I attended and made some brief remarks at the Chicago Comp+Cocktails event sponsored by Payfactors. Payfactors is doing some interesting things in the world of compensation management, with the overall message of a [...]