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Reward fights back – peashooters against tanks, some closing thoughts
Introduction Unless you have been living in a monastery then you will aware that HR in the UK has been under attack on a number of different fronts by the media and by politicians. The mauling...
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Rewarding Adaptability – Digital Freedom Challenge
My idea (hack) for the Management Innovation Exchange, international Digital Freedom Challenge has been shortlisted as a finalist. It is called Rewarding Adaptability The organizers said: The Digital...
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Reward and Rock and Roll
Introduction What have the worlds of David Bowie, Black Sabbath and reward have in common apart from dealing in large amounts of money? An outstanding book, “The business of...
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The Cobblers last, digital marketing and reward.
Introduction I was in a branch of Timpson recently where I noticed a cobblers last. This is a rare sight. I am old enough to remember when most shoe shops had them in the shop window; a bit like...
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Giving it away
Question You are sitting in your office when the CEO walks in. She says “I want to give half my salary away to increase the minimum pay in the organisation to $25,000.” Do you: A) Burst out laughing?...
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Politicians, promises and payment by results
Introduction As the General Election in the UK comes to an end I was thinking about all the political promises, pledges and lists of broken guarantees. It struck me that the country could take a leaf...
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Complex can of worms – The Investment Association urge fund managers to...
Introduction The Investment Management Association has urged its members to disclose their pay policies and how this encourages alignment between investment teams and clients. At one level this is a...
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Epidemic of thieving bankers
Introduction Why have so many well paid, highly educated men (and it is almost entirely men) working in financial services caught the disease of fraud and theft? There is manipulation of LIBOR and FX...
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Time, value and a bonus
Introduction I was at a City lunch in a conversation with a senior executive of an American bank and her partner, a gifted financial analyst. We discussed the impact of bonus accrual accounting...
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Pension freedoms = bosses’ burdens
Introduction Much has been written about.the new UK pension freedoms; to treat pension pots like bank accounts. What has not been talked about is the vast burden these so called freedoms impose on...
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