What is Mindfulness? Mindfulness is about being present and having an awareness of what’s going on around us and in our minds. Sometimes the best way to understand mindfulness is thinking about mindlessness, this is where you’re running on autopilot, not paying attention to what is happening around you, rushing from one thing to the nextRead more
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I find that Employee Recognition is one of the least defined parts of Total Reward Management. Unlike fixed and variable pay practices, that are predominantly logical, measures and (if you keep on top of them) relatively organised, Employee Recognition needs to be immediate, emotional and tailored to the person and the achievement you are recognising.Read more
Written by Irina Miller, Remuneration and Benefits Manager, Crombie Lockwood Job Architecture is a way of organising and structuring individual jobs, job families and entire organisations. It often includes levels and individual job descriptions. In broad terms, Job Architecture has been around for centuries. Let’s take an early day village as an example of anRead more
Lyndsay Burns explores life after Vodafone’s big Win at the YWCA Equal Pay Awards. It has been a few months since Vodafone won the Leadership and Supreme Awards at the YWCA Equal Pay Awards last November. We feel very honoured to have won these awards in recognition of the work that we have doneRead more
An important question on the link/delink between performance and compensation at the Remnet conference. Here is a great piece of research by Mckinsey https://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/organization/our-insights/the-fairness-factor-in-performance-managementRead more
Last week I stumbled across a Compensation Café blog about how to do (and not do) international assignments well. Having recently spent quite a bit of time repatriating Kiwi’s back home, I couldn’t agree more with the insights the author highlights. http://www.compensationcafe.com/2017/09/cafe-classic-he-said-she-said-is-always-expensive.html In my experience the most important thing with any international move (permanent orRead more
After launching our new compensation framework (you can read about it here) we decided to take a look at gender pay equity. After all, the ability to do analysis on pay diversity to ensure we’re paying everyone fairly, was one of the key drivers for creating the new compensation framework. We wanted to focus onRead more
Guest blogger Emma Le Grice shares some insights into the difference between in-house HR roles and Consulting roles. To the ‘other side’ and back Have you ever thought about leaving your in-house HR or remuneration role to try “the other side”….. Consulting? Emma Le Grice had four years in a senior consulting role and hasRead more
It is always an interesting discussion about designing reward specific to the millennial workforce. While most researchers agree there are differences in values, most of what is core to each generation is ultimately quite similar. A 20-year gap between the oldest and youngest millennial also means there is significant diversity in the needs and wantsRead more
Happy Monday! Our very own Wendell D’Cunha wrote this article recently published on HRD Online on ‘know your purpose’ where he urges employers to know their purpose and fully commit to it if they want to remain appealing to millennials. He explores the tension of meeting the expectations of millennials whilst still catering to the needsRead more
