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Supporting the UK Reserve forces – a CSR win-win
The UK reserve forces (formally the TA), play a key role in supporting the country in times of emergency. If you employ a reservist they will be getting leadership, professional and technical skills...
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UK Budget 2013; a reward perspective – 6/10 could do better
Introduction This is a brief analysis of the UK’s 2013 from a Reward perspective. It identifies five key factors when looking at the budget and provides an analysis against each factor as well as a...
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Visualisation – the new future of reward data presentation?
Introduction I am a firm believer in serendipity so I quickly picked up on an article in PCPro magazine on the subject of data visualisation. Wikipedia defines data visualisation as “According to...
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The seven ages of pay(ne)
Introduction As a reward specialist and commentator I have a particular interest in the financial characteristics of the journey of life. Shakespeare wrote of the seven ages of man; I like to think...
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CIPD Hackathon – Hacking HR to Build an Adaptability Advantage; A reward...
Introduction The UK’s HR professional body, the CIPD has recently set up a “Hackathon” to look at how HR can build an adaptability advantage. A good idea with an interesting approach. There appears...
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Strong analytics
Introduction The UK’s CIPD has published its annual reward survey. The CIPD reward survey; http://www.cipd.co.uk/hr-resources/survey-reports/reward-management-2013.aspx “Our findings show...
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Rebuilding trust in the City of London
Introduction I was at a recent meeting in the City of London to launch the document “Focus on rebuilding trust in the City” a Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) survey of staff...
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What are Pension Funds’ Greatest Challenges in 2013?
Reblogged from Robert Gardner: Pensions has always been a tricky business. But perhaps never more so than in 2013. The regulation changes of the early 2000’s rewrote the rulebook for those running...
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Balance of power – Executive pay and shareholders
Introduction There is considerable controversy over levels of executive pay. There are a multitude of stakeholders or would be stakeholders pugnaciously striving for influence. Remuneration...
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Supporting the Reserve forces – caption competition
As it is Friday; £5 book token for the best caption Please support Armed Forces Day
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Why thinking in averages is below average thinking – Strong analytics II
Introduction As a reward specialist I am asked questions like, what is our pay inflation going to be next year? I used to go away, do research and say 2.4% – having used the historic average. Of...
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UK Government’s own goal pay farce
Introduction It is reported today that UK politicians are seeking to block a pay rise for themselves recommended by an independent body. The IPSA, an independent body that acts as a policeman on MP’s...
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Rewarding Reward Podcast http://www.idavidson.podbean.com/
I have produced the fourth podcast in the series “Views over the City” http://www.idavidson.podbean.com This podcast covers pay and reward issues on a global basis. This podcast includes: Banking...
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Wellness as a reward strategy
Introduction The UK Health and Safety Executive claim that 27 million days were lost to sickness or injury in 2011/12 at a cost of 13.4 billion in in previous year. A lot of the illness is due to...
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The pessimistic person’s pension problems Pandora’s package
Introduction I had a letter recently from the Trustees of one of my defined contribution occupational schemes. They told me they were going to change all of my carefully balanced investments in to...
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#ShorterHR
I really like a Twitter trend #ShoterHR. The idea is to write HR policy in 140 characters or less. Below are some of the best examples together with a number of my own contributions. This exercise also...
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An important approach on HR analytics ht
An important approach on HR analytics http://ow.ly/nCaqG
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The executive pay debate continues. http
The executive pay debate continues. http://ow.ly/nC9PA
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Zero hours contracts: Extreme segmentation: the labour market dynamic
The news that the number of zero hours employees have been greatly undercounted illustrates a fundamental change in labour market dynamics. We are seeing an acceleration in the divide between the haves...
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