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We have a few employees whose jobs have changed and they are already more than sufficiently compensated in the new job code/salary range. After communicating a zero raise to one employee, he asked how
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Re: Motivating employees who receive no pay increase
posted at 11/1/2012 10:01 AM EDT
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I agree with cahunter on his later statements. A great work environment with good, supportive leadership can go a long, long way to offsetting a lack of pay increases - and especially so if there is some degree of job security in an otherwise dismal economy. |
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Re: Motivating employees who receive no pay increase
posted at 11/7/2012 1:04 PM EST
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We have not had pay raises for 3 years now because of the economy and a drop off in sales. The company is just not doing well enough to afford them. We have had to cut all matches to the 401k and even had some periods where we cut everyone’s hours so that we didn't have to lay anyone off. During this time the only reason people have left was because we had to let them go for disciplinary reasons. We have continued the little things, Thanksgiving luncheon, Holiday gift cards, and started having more employee potluck lunches. Most of the employees understand the position the company is in. They can see that the work is just not coming in at the same rate it used to, but they still have a job and are grateful for that. |
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Re: Motivating employees who receive no pay increase
posted at 11/8/2012 1:00 AM EST
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Incentives and fair work rate is enough, good attitude towards employees is also a good strategy. A report from a private staffing firm Wednesday predicted that you might be finding a pay raise next year. That is, if you work in technology, finance or administration. But it is for the private sector only. Government employees are doomed. |
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Re: Motivating employees who receive no pay increase
posted at 11/8/2012 5:50 AM EST
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A quote an officemate of mine mentioned while we were actually talking about this topic over lunch... "every employee nowadays feels that they are overworked and underpaid...." lol |
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Re: Motivating employees who receive no pay increase
posted at 11/8/2012 12:38 PM EST
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In Response to Re: Motivating employees who receive no pay increase: Employees that do not receive pay increases or insignificant increases in companies that make record profits, and have no variable pay based on company performance, will always feel cheated. The reality of today's economy is that raises do NOT meet the increased cost of living, so the employees' disposable income is shrinking even while their company is being successful. For companies that are not performing well, employees usually understand and are happy to try to turn the company around. Each individual person and situation is different but the key to having happy productive employees is understanding what motivates them....extra time off, recognition, leadership on projects, flexible schedules all these tools are available to managers to make life better for the employee when $$ are not available. Posted by cahunter2 CAHUNTER- I agree with your post. However the original question had to do with not providing pay increases for a lateral position transfer. This would be rewarding something for no additional value add to the company. Just not logical or pragmatic. The employee that made this comment is not living in the same world I am where jobs are still considered a valuable commodity and not one where you want you make your management uncomfortable about your personal motivation. |
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Re: Motivating employees who receive no pay increase
posted at 11/13/2012 7:00 AM EST
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If the company were in some kind of economic crisis or whatever, and the HR is kind enough to explain it very well and give us options (in regards to them not being able to provide the increase for now), it may be a different case. but if the company is just being cheap (since some companies can always say that if we loose this employee, we can always hire a newly grad for a the same or even a much cheaper price). |
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