More Thoughts on Millennials and Internships
In my previous article I argued that from a societal perspective (and that’s pretty broad!) there is a need to [...]
Millennials and Internships
Edgar Schein in his seminal work, Career Dynamics and its companion workbook, Career Anchors, described a model of the Major [...]
Millennials in the Workplace
Admittedly my perspective may be skewed by my location – I’m in Ottawa, surrounded by abstract public servants, or [...]
Millennials
Much has been written, or talked about, when it comes to the latest generational cohort, much of it misplaced, in [...]
Thoughts on Pay Practices: Part 6 – Problems with ‘contingent compensation’
Many organizations offer a substantial contingent compensation component (incentive bonus schemes) to many employees as part of the overall pay [...]
Thoughts on Pay Practices: Part 5 – More thoughts on inequity
Luckily, neither employees nor employers evaluate equity outcomes based merely on surveys; it is not like checking the price of [...]
Principles for Effective Layoffs
These days organizations seem more interested in limiting their financial and legal liability than they are with preserving the ongoing [...]
Thoughts on Pay Practices: Part 4 – Inequity is the Enemy of Engagement
Employees need to believe that they are comparably and fairly paid relative to others, both internally and externally. Luckily, employees [...]
Thoughts on Pay Practices: Part 3 – Performance Recognition
I used to be a great believer in linking performance appraisals with ‘performance pay’ – annual MBO type performance reviews [...]
Thoughts on Pay Practices: Part 2 – Towards Employee Engagement
The intrinsic motivators that drive employee engagement go waaay beyond ‘compensation’.