NERDALERT BLOG
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 [...]
Metrics as Guides, not Grades
I received some great email feedback from the last past on measuring quality of hire. There seems to be a hunger for more clarity and specificity in the HR metrics space, and particularly a call [...]
Measuring Quality of Hire
I've been thinking a lot lately about how to measure hiring quality, and I'm hoping to test an idea with you. Over time I have grown a bit frustrated with the focus on "time [...]
Gender Pay Gap (Part 2): What Does “Equal Pay” Really Mean?
This is the second part of a series of posts relating to the gender pay gap. Last week, we pointed out that nearly all data sets are subject to the proverbial “garbage in, garbage out” [...]
Battling Bias
We work with a lot of data. How often do we question whether it is good data? Big idea: if you don't start with the right data, you can get the wrong conclusions. Let's [...]