Compensation and benefits

Motivating yourself is one of the main things that sets high achievers apart, and it's hard. How do you keep pushing onward when your heart isn't into...

Amid a looming economic downturn, employers can expect another tumultuous year.

By aligning executives' financial incentives with company strategy, a firm can inspire its management to deliver superior results. But it can be hard...

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A lot of leaders believe that the formula for attracting and keeping talent is simple: Just ask people what they want and give it to them. The problem...

Gallup surveyed more than 5,700 fully on-site workers in the U.S. to find out which flexibility options are available to them - and which would entice...

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Sales departments tend to believe that marketers are out of touch with what's really going on in the marketplace. Marketing people, in turn, believe the...

Buy time and ask questions.

When reward systems fail, don’t blame the program—look at the premise behind it.

Companies profess devotion to shareholder value but rarely follow the practices that maximize it. What will it take to make your company a level 10 value creator?

Three questions firms should ask themselves when deciding whether to automate.

Since the pandemic, companies have adopted the technologies of virtual work remarkably quickly--and employees are seeing the advantages of more flexibility...

Many companies blame outside factors for the trouble they've been having in finding and retaining frontline workers: the pandemic, the government's stimulus...

As organizations continue to explore a variety of flexible work options, one promising avenue is the four-day workweek: The standard 40 hours per week...

The arrival of spring means yet another round in the national debate over executive compensation. Soon the business press will trumpet answers to the questions it asks every year: Who were the highest paid CEOs? How many executives made more than a million dollars? Who received the biggest raises? Political figures, union leaders, and consumer […]

Using the results of a survey of 380 companies in 34 industries, this author examines three basic types of compensation plans: salary, commission, and combination (salary plus commission). Most companies in the study favored a combination plan, but such plans have some disadvantages to offset their obvious attractiveness. The author sets out the possible reasons […]

You’ve decided to start a company. Your business plan is based on sound strategy and thorough market research. Your background and training have prepared you for the challenge. Now you must assemble the quality management team that venture investors demand. So you begin the search for a topflight engineer to head product development and a […]

An exploration of three common bonus approaches.