Ebony Howard is a certified public accountant and a QuickBooks ProAdvisor tax expert. She has been in the accounting, audit, and tax profession for more than 13 years, working with individuals and a ...

Only one in five employers believes that their existing merit pay approach is effectively driving performance. Traditionally, the three standard tools for motivating employees have been perks, ...

The purpose of regulation is to align private behavior with the public interest. That public interest imposes two chief obligations. The first obligation is the utility’s obligation to serve the ...

Apple CEO Tim Cook discusses the new iPhone 6s in San Francisco. When Apple reset Cook’s pay, shareholders won and taxpayers lost. (Eric Risberg/AP) Tim Cook got almost $400 million of restricted ...

For Duggan, taking compensation out of performance management "frees managers and employees to set more ambitious goals." He writes that connecting goals to compensation the old-fashioned way (a ...

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New questions are being raised about Minnesota’s system for compensating exceptional teachers even as stakeholders develop a new evaluation system that may keep the state in the national spotlight.

Q Comp is performance pay structured around staff development and evaluation — not just seniority. Adopting Q Comp is voluntary, but the state awards $260 per pupil to participating districts. It was ...

In my 30-plus years as a sales executive and sales leadership consultant, I’ve identified a critical error most sales organizations make: not crafting a sales ...