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- Sales Compensation & Performance Management 2009 Survey Results and Analysis
- Based on 1000+ companies, the CSO Insights' 2009 Sales Compensation & Performance Management Report provides summaries of what strategies and tactics companies are employing. The findings offer insights and the report offers suggestions on key elements that should be considered as you plan, deploy and manage compensation plans and sales...
- Tags: Compensation, Sales Compensation, Varicent, Analysis, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Benefits, Sales, Human Resources
- White papers 2009-10-13
- Nortel to cut 3,200 more employees
- Nortel today announced that it intends to reduce its workforce by an additional 3,200 positions worldwide over the next several months, almost doubling the total number of laid off employees after 1,800 workers were cut earlier this year.r"There is nothing more difficult than notifying employees, and Nortel is extremely conscious...
- Tags: Compensation, Employee, Performance, Nortel Networks Corp., Equity, Benefits, Performance Management, Investment, Financial Services, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Finance, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-02-25
- HP's Hurd brings in $42.5 million; 4 other top execs top $20 million
- HP CEO Mark Hurd's total compensation for 2009 totaled $42.5 million. According to an HP's proxy filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Hurd had $1.45 million in salary, a bonus of $5.34 million and various stock awards and equity plans to hit the $42.5 million mark....
- Tags: Compensation, Hewlett-Packard Co., Mark Hurd, Benefits, Human Resources, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-01-21
- Yahoo's Bartz to earn $1M plus bonuses, options
- Carol Bartz, Yahoo's new CEO, will earn a base salary of $1 million, not counting bonuses, as well as stock options of 5 million shares, according to documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Her offer letter, excerpted below, lays out details on bonuses and stock options, as well...
- Tags: Compensation Committee, Stock Option, Compensation, Stock, Yahoo! Inc., Company, Benefits, Stock Options, Investment, Financial Accounting, Human Resources, Stock Options & Grants, Finance, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-01-15
- Workday builds out SaaS bellwether for human capital management services and costs controls
- The new services offer richer costs and compensation management features, more business services like payroll, and also improved access to global process insights and analytics. These additions are designed to effectively and swiftly help guide employees through change and to improve business productivity and responsiveness. by Dana Gardner
- Tags: Software-as-a-service, Compensation, Payroll, Human Capital Management, Workday, Benefits Network, Human Capital, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Software As A Service (SaaS), Payroll Solutions, Operational Accounting, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Emerging Technologies, Finance, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2009-01-12
- Forced to think about a career change? Here are some greentech job links
- One of the best Christmas gifts that my husband and I could have received came in the form of news last night from one of his childhood friends that she's going to be starting a new job after the New Year. She has been out of work for several months...
- Tags: Job, Compensation, Clean Technology, Professional Development, Benefits, Recruitment & Selection, Career, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-12-24
- Curing the primary care shortage
- Curing the primary care shortageBelling the catNow the trick is to persuade insurance companies to do that. Possibly you have some economic arguments you could make.Of course, they could also act to artificially inflate the supply by offering medical school scholarships to people who commit to general practice for...
- Tags: Insurance, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, primary care shortage, care shortage, insurance company, compensation
- Discussion threads 2008-09-10
- Lame NHS loses 31,000 patient records
- Lame NHS loses 31,000 patient recordsSafer in a "cloud"Keeping sensitive data on laptops is pathetic. Keep it all in a very secure cloud and give access from any location. If hackers get to the data, great, they will anyway if the info is just left on laptops, on trains and...
- Tags: Notebooks, Lame NHS, patient record, patient
- Discussion threads 2008-06-19
- What Yahoo doesn't want you to know about the Microsoft deal
- After fighting against its disclosure for weeks, lawyers for Yahoo! have finally lost their battle to keep the details of a shareholder lawsuit hidden. They had released a public version on May 15th, but most of the interesting parts were deleted. Exactly what were they trying to hide? ...
- Tags: Jerry Yang, Compensation, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Benefits, Human Resources, Ed Burnette
- Blog posts 2008-06-03
- Michael Dell's 2008 compensation almost halved, but security tab remains
- Michael Dell's 2008 compensation almost halved, but security tab remainsHay Mike I blue screenedNow what---
- Tags: Benefits, Michael Dell, compensation, security
- Discussion threads 2008-06-02
- Michael Dell's 2008 compensation almost halved, but security tab remains
- Dell CEO Michael Dell saw his total compensation in fiscal 2008 fall to $2.33 million from $4.5 million in 2007 as his stock option awards fell. However, Dell's security bill topped $1 million for the second year in a row. According to Dell's proxy statement filed with the SEC...
- Tags: Security, Compensation, Dell Computer Corp., Benefits, Human Resources, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-06-02
- Yang takes $1 salary in 2007; Former Yahoo execs made the most
- Yahoo said in an amendment to its annual report that CEO Jerry Yang was paid $1 for 2007. The company added the amendment since it won't be able to file its proxy statement 120 days after its fiscal year. Yang's $1 salary is in keeping with other...
- Tags: Compensation, Yahoo! Inc., Salary, Yang, Rosensweig, Benefits, Human Resources, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-04-29
- SMB Payroll Providers Comparison Guide
- View this document for a lineup of the key vendors in the market and a comparison of the most important factors in purchasing payroll and compensation software and services for small to midsize companies.
- Tags: Compensation, Comparison, Small And Medium Business, HR World, Benefits, Smb/Sme, Human Resources
- White papers 2008-03-17
- Hollywood dinosaurs and the Internet
- Not that this tops the list of things that matter to geeks, but if you live in Los Angeles like I do, it's hard to avoid news about such things. The Director's Guild of America DGA recently cut a deal with the Alliance of Motion Picture and...
- Tags: Compensation, Hollywood, Microsoft Windows Genuine Advantage, Studio, Music, DGA, Internet, Sales Strategy, Benefits, Sales, Human Resources, John Carroll
- Blog posts 2008-01-18
- Ways to improve device backlighting described in new BlackBerry patent app
- Technology described in a newly published BlackBerry Patent application would improve the quality of BlackBerry device backlighting by using "hot spot filters" to better managing overly "bright spots." The Patent app, 0070291507, is entitled, Method and Device To Improve Backlit Uniformity. ...
- Tags: Method, Colour, Compensation, Hot Spot, Substrate, RIM BlackBerry, Image, LCD, Hot Spot Filter, Abstract, Monitors & Displays, Benefits, Hardware, Components, Human Resources, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2007-12-20
- EU, U.S. strike compensation deal in gambling fight
- EU, U.S. strike compensation deal in gambling fightBut when the other shoe drops ...Let's be clear what this is about. Congress snuck the anti-gambling provision last year into a "motherhood-and-apple-pie" bill providing funding to help secure the nation's ports against terrorism. They snuck the gambling amendment in at the...
- Tags: Taxes, Free trade, compensation deal, tax, U.S. Congress, compensation
- Discussion threads 2007-12-17
- A million users, and all I got was this lousy chocolate bar
- Salesforcewatch.com has found an apparently disaffected Salesforce.com employee using eBay to auction off a set of chocolate bars distributed to staff to celebrate hitting the million-subscriber milestone this month. Even more revealing than the seller's description of the chocolate as "sickly sweet, but decent for making cookies...
- Tags: Compensation, Porsche AG, Salesforcewatch.com, Benefits, Human Resources, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2007-12-11
- Conduct a Job Evaluation
- Compensation and benefits specialist are responsible for developing a fair compensation plan. Job evaluation is a tool used to evaluate the worth of each job in the organization and in today's labor market. A successful job evaluation system can help to make organization's pay system equitable, understandable, legally defensible, approachable,...
- Tags: Job, Compensation, Job Evaluation, Recruitment & Selection, Benefits, Human Resources, Workforce Management
- White papers 2007-12-01
- Current-Mode Modeling for Peak, Valley and Emulated Control Methods
- Current-mode operation: An ideal current-mode converter is only dependent on the dc or average inductor current. The inner current loop turns the inductor into a voltage-controlled current source, effectively removing the inductor from the outer voltage control loop at dc and low frequency. The modulator gain is dependent on the...
- Tags: Compensation, National Semiconductor Corp., Benefits, Human Resources
- White papers 2007-08-01
- Architectural Decisions and Patterns for Transactional Workflows in SOA
- An important architectural style for constructing enterprise applications is to use transactional workflows in SOA. In this setting, workflow activities invoke distributed services in a coordinated manner, using transaction context-propagating messages, coordination protocols, and compensation logic. Designing such transactional workflows is a time-consuming and error-prone task requiring deep subject matter...
- Tags: Compensation, SOA, Workflow, Springer Science+Business Media, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Process Improvement, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Quality, Business Operations
- White papers 2007-07-31
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