Remove Bonuses and Incentives Remove Company Remove Payscale
article thumbnail

What Is Human Resources?

Analytics in HR

As a function, HR covers the processes, practices, and strategies to attract, develop, and retain employees who contribute to the company’s overall success. In this view, HR recognizes that employees are a company’s most critical asset. Human Resources is both a function and a department within an organization.

article thumbnail

Seasonal Hiring Steady for 2015 Holiday Season, but is Pay Spiraling Downward?

Compensation Today

Taylor, PHR, SHRM-CP, PayScale Senior Blogger This time of year always sees an increase in hiring additional people to cover the busy holiday season, at least on a temporary basis. Employers are hesitant to raise wages to attract seasonal talent, instead they are highlighting their company cultures and growth opportunities.

Hiring 40
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Compensation Planning in 7 Actionable Steps

Analytics in HR

Different types of compensation include base pay, company bonuses, stock options, and benefits like insurance, pension programs, and parental leave. In the so-called war on talent, employee compensation plays an integral part in how you attract and retain talent in your company. We’ll get into this in more detail later.

article thumbnail

What COVID means to compensation

HRExecutive

He explains that the pandemic has forced employers like Workday to change compensation quickly and at scale, relying on tools such as hardship pay, one-time bonuses, severance packages and salary reductions. Addressing pay equity and fairness has never been more important,” Thomas says of today’s uncertain economic climate. Sudarshan Sampath.

article thumbnail

7 Tips for Moving to a Pay-for-Performance Culture

Compensation Today

Companies have seen a bit of a revolution in performance-based pay in the past few years. In the 2017 Compensation Best Practices Report , PayScale found that 89 percent of organizations reward and/or recognize performance in some way. Most have removed the rank-and-yank style of performance management. Click To Tweet. Click To Tweet.

article thumbnail

Want a Better Culture? Set Compensation Strategy Accordingly

Compensation Today

At PayScale, we think the way you pay says a lot about you as an organization. In PayScale’s 2017 Compensation Best Practices Report (CBPR), we found that 57 percent of organizations agree that compensation is becoming more important to their executives. Compensation should be a reflection of and an extension of your culture.

article thumbnail

Bonuses Remain the Top Priority for Raising Compensation

Compensation Today

Taylor, PHR, SHRM-CP, PayScale Senior Blogger Recently, I wrote about the sluggish state of the US economy and its impact on wages for the third quarter of 2015. Are employee bonuses the new compensation strategy? Will more employers offer bonuses? But, I neglected to mention one thing. They can also be creative.