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Product Tours
Compensation Planner - Focal: Global Support
Workscape is the industry leader in providing compensation planning solutions for complex, global organizations. This demo highlights some of the features in Workscape Compensation Planner - Focal that enable global organizations to achieve their compensation objectives.
Brochures & Datasheets
Workscape Compensation Planner - Focal Datasheet
A dynamic, easy-to-use enterprise compensation management solution that helps managers make informed compensation decisions during focal planning periods to improve efficiency and control compensation spend for bottom-line results.
Workscape Compensation Planner - Off-Cycle Datasheet
A dynamic, easy-to-use application that enables managers to make informed decisions, enforce approval processes and guidelines, and eliminate budget overruns for compensation adjustments that occur outside the focal planning period.
Workscape Corporate Brochure
For over a decade, Workscape has been delivering game-changing HR technologies and services to organizations seeking to improve their talent management and benefits administration processes. This document provides an overview of our business, our capabilities and – most importantly – the Workscape team that can help to transform your HR objectives into strategic success for your business.
Workscape ERP Integration Suite Datasheet
Enables companies to integrate HR data stored in their ERP or other system of record with Workscape Talent Management Suite applications and then manage that data to effectively ensure that compensation, performance, and succession processes leverage the most up-to-date information
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Workscape Talent Management Suite Brochure
Workscape’s integrated Talent Management Suite, which includes Compensation Planner™, Performance Manager™, Succession Planner™, SmartSync™, and GroupManager™, features an intuitive, highly interactive interface that delivers an easy-to-use, Web-based application experience for exceptionally high user adoption rates.
Studies and Surveys
Changes for Challenging Times
A Special Report on Business Conditions, Compensation Trends and What Leading Companies are Planning in 2009 and Beyond by noted author and compensation expert Thomas B. Wilson.
Corporate Compensation - Should the Government Intervene?
HCI (Human Capital Institute) and Workscape surveyed hundreds of HR leaders and the nation's leading compensation and talent management gurus to learn whether the current backlash and public outcry over executive salaries and bonuses (even among companies not receiving government bailouts) might result in different, more conservative approaches to compensation in future.
Where We Stand - Hiring, Firing, Bonuses and Benefits
This study was conducted by the Human Capital Institute and Workscape in February 2009. It is based on a survey of 308 HCI members, more than half of whom are human capital and human resources managers, directors and executives. This study was co ‐ developed and underwritten by Workscape .
Webcasts
Aligning Strategy, People, and Compensation in the TARP Era
How do leaders change their cultures, retain top performers and drive performance in a era of recession and increased oversight? Do the strategies of yesterday meet the needs of today? Yes, and no. This webinar featuring Workscape CEO Tim Clifford will explore how leading companies have used compensation and HR strategies to achieve better alignment with business goals and how those strategies need to change to be effective today. Listen to this discussion between J.P. Donlon, Chief Executive Editor-in-Chief and Tim Clifford, CEO, Workscape
Assembling the HCM Puzzle: Best Practices in Automating Your Human Capital Management Processes featuring Zach Thomas of Forrester Research, Inc
Where do you start in automating your strategic HR processes? Compensation? Performance? Succession? Learning? Recruiting? And do you leverage your ERP or go best of breed? In this Webcast, Zach Thomas, Senior Analyst at Forrester Research, Inc will call on recent research that show the trends affecting companies just like yours to help you see where you are in the maze of HCM and pros and cons of the paths in front of you. As a senior analyst, Zach focuses on the processes, strategies, and tools that help organizations hire, engage, and promote effective workforces. His primary research areas include hiring automation, performance management, and human resources management systems.
Avoiding Compensation Planning Disasters
Join Tom Wilson, President of the Wilson Group and author of Innovative Reward Systems for the Changing Workplace and Rewards That Drive High Performance: Success Stories From Leading Organizations as he shares stories of worst practices and how to avoid them. Tom will look back over the last decade of compensation practices at the challenges faced by leading organizations and the mistakes they made in trying to address them. Watch as this industry expert shares the experiences that could save you hours, dollars and maybe even your sanity as you turn to planning for the coming year.
Benefits and Compensation: Real-World Lessons & Best Practices
In the current economy getting the most out of compensation and benefits budgets is changing the level of scrutiny on HR processes. Every dollar is more precious and every decision is more important. It’s times like these that learning from other people's mistakes and successes can save you and your organization time, effort and money. This webcast will bring you two experts in the fields of outsourced benefits administration and compensation planning. Donna Dupre, Manager Outsourced Benefits Administration, Workscape and Diane Mulhall, Manager, Implementation Consulting, Workscape have seen how hundreds of compensation and benefits professionals at dozens of companies have been challenged and either succeeded or failed at overcoming their issues. This highly interactive session will enable you to both hear how others solved problems that you might be facing today and ask questions of experts that have seen it all in the areas of outsourced benefits and compensation.
Best of Breed HR Solutions make a Comeback featuring Paul Hamerman
Workscape invites you to join us for this Web conference featuring Paul Hamerman of Forrester Research, Inc. Based on his recent research report, HR/HCM Applications 2008: Best-Of-Breed Solutions Make A Comeback January 07, 2008, this Web conference will examine the pros and cons of ERPs and Best of Breed solutions and strategies available for companies when extending beyond transactional HR to strategic human capital applications. Mr. Hamerman will discuss the benefits and potential pitfalls of each type of solution and when “Good Enough” is not good enough.
Building a Compensation Planning Business Case the Right Way: A Case Study of a Case Study
Building a business case for a complex process like compensation planning isn’t easy. Defining and measuring what you do today, finding industry averages to compare yourself to, comparing apples to oranges, all are challenging. At Workscape we took on those challenges and will share not only the findings, but the hurdles we had to overcome to define accurate guidelines and streamline the ROI process. Working with a respected industry analyst and multi-national organizations, Workscape took a deep dive into the challenges and benefits of the before and after of automating compensation planning.
Common Mistakes in Compensation Planning
In this video, Workscape President & CEO Tim Clifford discusses the importance of allocating greater rewards for top performers, and outlines some of the challenges that companies face in moving to that approach.
Compensation Planning Solutions: Build or Buy?
The war for talent and increasing cost pressures are making automated tools a business necessity. Compensation Planning solutions reduce errors, create consistent practices, and drive pay-for-performance, but is it better to develop one in-house or select a best-of-breed tool?
Compensation Planning Solutions: Building the Business Case
Automating the compensation planning process will help your organization, but how do you prove it? It’s impossible to get management buy-in without a solid business case justifying change, but how do you quantify the savings? Listen as Robert Mattson, Sr. Product Marketing Manager, Workscape guides you through documenting the hard cost benefits of automating your compensation planning processes through practical and clear calculations that compare your total current costs to those of using an automated tool.
Corporate Compensation Governance (CCG) Survey - Webcast
HCI and Workscape surveyed hundreds of HR leaders and interviewed the nation's leading compensation and talent management gurus to learn whether the current backlash and public outcry over executive salaries and bonuses (even among companies not receiving government bailouts) might result in different, more conservative approaches to compensation in future.
We asked what longer term impact recent events will have on the way execs and high performers are compensated. Might a Sarbanes-Oxley type legislation emerge to regulatesalaries and bonuses? Is this recession different to the degree that it will impact compensation practices, whether legislated or not, in a significant way? In this webcast we will share the results and highlights of our research. Learn how the "great recession" might impact your organization and your career.
Creating A Talent Management Technology Strategy
Every organization seems to be talking about talent management these days, and many are beginning to develop a comprehensive talent management strategy. However, most firms neglect to build a talent management technology strategy that defines the steps and timeline to meet the objectives and goals of their talent management strategy. Without this in place, many organizations deploy applications in an ad hoc manner, which results in incompatible systems, increased total cost of ownership, and dissatisfied stakeholders at all levels. Part of the larger HCM Technology Strategy for the firm, the Talent Management Technology Strategy focuses on Recruiting, Compensation, Performance, Learning, Competency, Career Planning, and Succession Management processes and applications, and combines the "internal" view (the organization's critical issues, business requirements and culture) with the "external" view (HCM technology landscape, current and potential vendor strategies) to deliver a roadmap for the strongest possible return on the firm's technology investment.
Finding the Quick Fix – Making pay-for-performance work better today!
Workscape invites you to join us for a Web conference featuring Tom Wilson, President, Wilson Group. In this session Tom will examine research on the effectiveness of various pay-for-performance systems, and case studies of companies that have employed a variety of techniques. We will examine why these tactics have worked or have failed. By understanding the dynamics that are at work, one can examine and address changes that will have a more enduring impact. This issue is becoming even more important as companies (and people) face the likelihood of business slow downs, globalization of enterprises and competitors, and major change initiatives.
Getting it Right: Aligning Compensation to Business Objectives
In this video, Workscape President & CEO Tim Clifford provides an example of how one client adjusted their compensation strategy to incent the right behaviors, and describes the benefits of effectively aligning compensation plans with company objectives.
Getting Your Money's Worth: Using Compensation to Drive Employee Performance in Tough Economic Times - Webcast
How do you drive your top line revenues while protecting your bottom line costs? Both of these goals revolve around using general and variable compensation to optimize employee performance. With tight or shrinking compensation budgets, there is only so much money to go around. So being smart in how you utilize your compensation budgets is critical to your company’s success.
Join partners Callidus Software, the market leader in sales compensation management and Sales Performance Management (SPM), and Workscape, the leader in global compensation planning for merit, bonus, STI and LTI, for a free, 60-minute webinar where you will learn how to use compensation as a key lever to drive employee performance in today’s tough economic climate.
Representatives of both companies will provide real life examples and recent studies that show how companies are using general and sales compensation budgets and programs to:
- Eliminate overspend of budgets year-round while providing flexibility to line managers to reward top employees
- Monitor the performance of their sales staff in real-time
- Keep their sales staff focused on the products and programs that matter most
- Utilize compensation to retain your most valuable contributors
Going Global with Compensation
What are the challenges for managing compensation on a global basis? Is it supporting data privacy? Finding accurate market data? Or, supporting different standards for each country or locale? The challenges for managing compensation on a global basis can be any of the three questions mentioned and much more. Learn how to face these challenges head on. Join Robert Mattson, Senior Manager of Product Marketing from Workscape as he walks through customer examples and the knowledge derived by interactions with industry luminaries to illustrate the challenges and solutions in these areas
HR and the Economy: Current Trends in People, Compensation & Benefits
There’s no shortage of news, facts and figures detailing how current economic conditions are creating challenges for businesses and individuals alike. From a Human Resources perspective, however, there hasn’t been a comprehensive review of how the down economy is affecting this critical business function… until now. Workscape has teamed-up with the Human Capital Institute and created a study aimed at gaining a comprehensive snapshot of how HR teams are responding to today’s unprecedented economic events. During this informative webcast, we’ll share the results with you.
Improve Strategic HCM Processes and Technologies
It’s no secret that people are the most expensive and important asset for firms, but many firms struggle with the processes and technologies to manage this asset. Zach Thomas of Forrester Research shared findings from his upcoming report entitled, Improve Strategic HCM Processes and Technologies and how the Forrester best practices framework for HCM is designed to help you identify areas where your HCM strategies, processes and technologies need to mature.
Look Back Look Ahead 2010 - Webcast
Join Workscape for the second annual Look Back/Look Ahead webinar. After conducting market research, having direct conversations with industry analysts and leading HR professionals and reviewing the news of the day; Moschetto and Mattson assess HR trends and events that occurred in 2009 and how they affected HR practitioners. In addition, they will look into how the events of today and potential happenings in 2010 will drive change in the coming 12 months. Topics include:
• How President Obama’s health care initiative will affect benefits
• The shift from recession to rebound
• TARP funds and compensation in 2010
• Why your best employees will be leaving your company in the next 12 months
• Plus more…
Join Workscape for a forward looking, interactive and entertaining session with these two industry thought leaders. Moschetto and Mattson have been published in Talent Management Magazine, Workspan, The Compensation Handbook, HRO Today and EBPR.
Performance Management: Best Practices for Managers and HR
Learn about best practices that drive year-round performance management while improving communications between managers and their direct reports. Hear specific tips and real world examples. Get visibility into questions like:
What are the keys to driving performance 365 days a year?
How can you make it easy and part of your day, not an added task?
How can you balance focus across the process, not just on the evaluation?
What’s the best way to ensure the discussion is about more than the score/rating?
What are the benefits of a 365 Performance Management process to you, your direct reports, and your organization?
Preserving Cash vs. Preserving Talent: Are You Prepared for Recovery?
Featuring: Thomas Wilson, President, The Wilson Group
For the past 12-18 months, prudent businesses have flipped into "cash preservation" mode to insulate the business from the negative effects of the economy. The reduction or elimination of bonuses and merit increases that have protected your business through the downturn, however, can have a detrimental effect on retention as markets improve. How do you know when to begin making the turn from 'cash preservation' mode to 'talent preservation' mode? Where do you start and what can you do to keep your best workers motivated, focused and loyal in the meantime? This webcast will focus on planning and managing your workforce through this balancing act-- and coming out as an employer of choice in the upturn.
Spotlight on Corporate Compensation and Governance
Compliance, governance and transparency: for those in the corporate compensation world, these terms have recently taken on more significance and gravity than ever before. Featuring noted HR and compensation expert Steven Goldberg, this timely Webcast will help you gain greater insight into today's corporate compensation challenges, as well as identify steps you can proactively take within your own organization to transform these challenges into opportunities.
The 365 Days of HR: How & Why to Shift from Annual Drudgery to Regular Engagement
Each year there are regular processes that employees and managers hate. Performance reviews. Compensation planning. Setting goals. Not only are these laborious, but what is the real value they are providing to the company and employees?
In this webinar, Robert Mattson, Senior Manager of Product Marketing details how and why to change annual HR-driven compensation and performance processes into employee embraced activities that are part of day-to-day life and enable better communication and engagement. Using insights into recent economic history, real-life company examples and the results of hundreds of conversations with HR thought leaders, he will provide the tools and techniques to get more out of your compensation and performance processes.
The State of Performance Management: A Practitioner’s View
Employee performance management can play a major role in determining the success or failure of any business endeavor, yet for many organizations, there’s room for improvement.
• 23% of organizations define and adjust employee goals dynamically throughout the year, but nearly half wait until performance review time to do so
• 66% admit an inability to realign employee goals to corporate goals as they change throughout the year
• Only 11% of organizations subscribe to the performance management best practice of providing ongoing performance feedback and measurement against goals
With so much at stake – particularly during the slow road to economic recovery – organizations need to make talent management a priority. We recently teamed-up with the Human Capital Institute to conduct a survey of HR practitioners and identify current talent management trends. Nearly 700 individuals participated and now we would like to share those results with you.
Using Compensation as the Basis for Your Talent Management Strategy
Workscape invites you to a complimentary Web conference on using compensation as a basis for your talent management strategy. In this Web conference, Jason Corsello, Research Director for Business & IT Services at the Yankee Group, will discuss the methods and techniques required to use compensation as the basis for a successful talent management strategy.
Using HISTORY to Properly Scope your HR Software Implementation Project
How do you know that your software project is completely scoped when working with a vendor? There are many factors that need to be considered in an implementation, including resource availability, system integration, training, change management, etc. To get a full grasp of potential costs requires that you AND the vendor have a complete understanding of the complete project requirement that drive effort and final cost. If you are getting numbers from vendors without proper scoping, all that does is lead you to believe it is a good number…but it may potentially come around to bite you later on. This webcast is not designed to bash vendors but rather arm you with the information you need to work with vendors to get more accurate implementation numbers the first time and avoid having to find more budget to finish items you thought you were getting in the first place.
What’s Happening with Variable Cash Compensation Plans?
Featuring Tom Wilson of The Wilson Group.As companies cut back on stock options, face increasing pressure to attract, retain and develop talent, and seek was to be more competitive in a global marketplace, many are changing their variable cash compensation plans. This Webinar will examine the key trends and issues facing today’s organizations: 1. How to identify the measures that drive desired performance. 2. When to focus on the individual and when to focus on the team performance. 3. The key systems and practices that enable the plans to work.
Whitepapers
Compensation Planning- Build or Buy
As is the case in most other areas of the corporate IT portfolio, the question quickly emerges: should you build a custom application to manage your corporate compensation? Or is it more advantageous to acquire a commercial system that can be deployed faster? There are many dimensions to such a complex decision. The following white paper examines the factors that evaluators should consider in making a “build vs. buy” decision.
Compensation Planning Solutions Building the Business Case
Regardless of industry or company size, employee compensation represents one of the single largest items on the P&L statement; sometimes the largest. Properly and effectively managing that expense, and achieving even razor-thin marginal improvements, can yield compelling benefits in numerous key areas.
Finding the Quick Fix - Making Pay-for-Performance Work Better Today
This paper examines the forces that are reshaping the competitive business landscape and the practices employed by organizations to attract, retain, develop and engage people. It presents research on various pay-for-performance systems, and looks at how well these reward systems meet today's challenges.
Getting Started with Talent Management
Organizations considering talent management solutions can be sure of only one thing – talent management is so potentially far-reaching in its implications that few, if any, organizations can implement all of its aspects – recruiting, performance management, compensation planning, learning and succession planning – at once. With that in mind, where should an organization place its priorities and spend its budget?
Off-Cycle Comensation Planning - Calculating the Savings from Self-Service Automation
Automating off-cycle activities for line managers can yield meaningful and measurable improvements for the organization in a variety of areas, including time savings, tighter budget control, and improvements in the quality of the execution of those off-cycle events. This white paper quantifies these benefits by explaining the requirements and demands of the typical current process and highlighting the areas where improvements can yield substantial benefits.
Quantifying the Benefits of Enterprise Compensation Planning
A study conducted by Knowledge Infusion suggests there are tangible and intangible benefits to be had by implementing a compensation management solution. Compensation planning processes administered by HR and enabled by enterprise technology may save costs and drive value in several ways.
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