5 Signs Your Pay And Promotions Policies are Stupid

In order to get people to work for you, you have to pay them. And if you want good people to work for you, you need to pay them fairly. What does fairly mean? Well, it’s more than paying them the amount that they negotiated during the hiring process. Here are five problems that I see frequently in businesses of any size.

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10 thoughts on “5 Signs Your Pay And Promotions Policies are Stupid

  1. I love your comment that “managing is different than doing”! We often promote employees because they’re good at their job, not because they show any skill at managing people, and then we don’t give them those skills, or we fail to see that some are unable to make the leap from employee to manager.

  2. Another sign is where policy dictates that only a small percentage of employees can be given the top rating, and all the rest must be average or below. This takes away a manager’s ability to reward superior performance, if another manager is better at pushing for his/her employees to be included in that select percentage.

    1. Oh yes indeed, especially when the system only allows 3 options – “below expectations” “meets expectations” and “exceeds expectations”. There’s nothing quite as crushing as busting a gut for 12 months, only to be told that you’re only just “meeting expectations” due to some silly company policy. It’s even worse when raises are tied to the outcome of the review meaning only a certain percentage of employees get anything above a cost-of-living raise.

  3. I think the larger the company, the better chance that pay increases are determined in the least labor intensive way possible (meaning generic across-the-board rather than actually sitting and analyzing each individual’s performace). I suspect it may even be impossible to do this, if say there are 50,000 employees, without having half of them working in HR.

    Sort of off topic, but I worked for a company where policy was to give the department head a pool of money to distribute across everyone’s bonuses, including her own. Needless to say, the only person she ever gave a bonus to was herself. Duh.

    1. Holy cow! Her boss or HR didn’t step in? And who gives someone the opportunity to determine her own bonus.?

      That’s messed up.

    2. I Told my Hr about my Supervisors Harrasement every time i speak of my break on lunch and him cutting me off from it like 10 mins into my lunch and asking about my overtime and him yelling at me and threatening me for not doing overtime cause i didnt get paid for it countless times.. she just said he is your biss get along with him .. they dont care man and when he got physical on me after a safety check of the truck inspection for i am a delivery driver he got hostile … and lunged at me when i said the vehicle is unsafe and he grabbed the broom off my hand and told me too go home … without hr approval is a form of discrimination not following proper procedure policy is a ddiscriminatory move on his part and the company and the threats of him saying he will knock me out made me call the cops and you should have seen his friggin face when the cops came … and the next day my boss was retaliating me and telling me he doesnt care what what happen and i got it all down on tape he even threaten too fire me because i wasnt listening he said that twice and i said too my self i hope i got that on tape its punitive damages of wrongfull of duty of care and victimizing and circumventing charge i have that is a golden case for me too win in the human rights tribunal you can only bring it in one case not the multitude courts so pick the highest human rights court and win

  4. Hr is there too Ratt you out and have you hanging high and dry they measure you up too see if your a threat or smart about your rights or if too know you have a idea of the employment laws … what they dont tell you is that they pretend they wont tell the boss but they do .. and they hope you just put your tail between your legs and just go

    A supervisor cant tell you too go home unless he has written you up in front of a higher authority that is HR or a manager or a owner of a company … and then orders you too go home but if you bring up a discriminatory insult and you got retaliated by this arguement its a form of reprisal and you can win with that arguement look it up on the net you will see what retaliation laws

  5. Hr is there too Ratt you out and have you hanging high and dry they measure you up too see if your a threat or smart about your rights or if too know you have a idea of the employment laws … what they dont tell you is that they pretend they wont tell the boss but they do .. and they hope you just put your tail between your legs and just go

    A supervisor cant tell you too go home unless he has written you up in front of a higher authority that is HR or a manager or a owner of a company … and then orders you too go home but if you bring up a discriminatory insult and you got retaliated by this arguement its a form of reprisal and you can win with that arguement look it up on the net you will see what retaliation laws

  6. I beleive in my Hearts of Hearts that Hr Procrastinates Big time on the Most qulaified Individual for any Job … they will overlook you Big time and you would have no Idea

    They will pick the wrong person for the job and not be accountable if they dont work out if Hr.. where smart they would ask you if you do work hard and see the reaction they get from that question and look for non blinks in the prospects eyes too know thye are getting someone real for the job… Trust me if you feel they are superior from you and you give them that power you just lost a chance for a job that you were wanting too «Get

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