7 common misconceptions about incentive compensation: our expert opinion
May 03, 2024
Since it involves achieving precise objectives and implies that a part of the salary cannot be taken for granted, incentive compensation is often seen as obscur...
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The freedom-form company: a look into 3 payroll innovations
December 08, 2022
According to Isaac Getz, lecturer at the ESCP Business School, “the freedom-from company” is a business approach founded on staff responsibility and freedom. So...
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Is your incentive compensation plan effective?
November 24, 2022
Your sales-force incentive compensation scheme must be well constructed if you want it to make sense and motivate your staff. And to achieve this, your system w...
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How do you implement a new bonus system in five steps?
September 28, 2022
Very often, bonuses are perceived negatively by employees, being accused of encouraging competition between colleagues. But when it comes to implementing a majo...
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Wages and incentive compensation: a detailed look at 3 recent innovations!
May 11, 2022
New salary approaches are coming into use. Three of these have become quite fashionable, they concern the chance to choose your own salary, pay transparency and...
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What would be the right ratio between the fixed salary and incentive compensation?
May 04, 2022
“Handing out bonuses to staff comes from good intentions but, unfortunately, if the incentive part of the wage is too small it will not have enough motivational...
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Incentive compensation: a vehicle for wage equality?
February 23, 2022
The share of incentive compensation in European salaries, all schemes included, rose from 17% in 2000 to 33% in 2015 (European Trade Union Institute ETUI study,...
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How to avoid overspending on incentive compensation?
January 04, 2022
“Depending on the level of responsibility and business line, the variable component represents one to three months of the employee’s base salary. The pay-out (i...
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Four reasons to introduce incentive compensation
September 08, 2021
“Incentive compensation makes no distinction between male and female employees, but it does objectively set apart top performers from everyone else” – Fabien Lu...
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How to make a target bonus effective?
June 09, 2020
According to the latest variable compensation survey published in 2016, 36% of executives believe that the target bonus represents the best financial incentive ...
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Should we cap incentive compensation of sales people?
March 17, 2020
According to the latest variable compensation survey published in 2016, more than 87% of business executives and sales managers believe that introducing incenti...
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Key words of incentive compensation
December 03, 2019
They are so common that we almost forget their definition and their primary objectives. Look back at the most commonly used terms across the lexicon of incentiv...
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