Managing the Crisis and Recovery

Human Capital Management will soon be impacting the entire corporate landscape
HCM: By no means a fad
Human Capital Management and ESG as focus topics of the DGFP network meeting on September 8, 2022. read more ...

Compensation expert John Pfeiffer in hkp/// group Remote Talk with Constantin Härthe
Meeting the challenges of sales compensation
Sales and sales compensation were subject to strong trends even before COVID-19. hkp/// group expert John Pfeiffer explains what has changed due to the corona crisis and how sales compensation can be part of the solution. read more ...
Corporate Governance & Board Compensation

Dr. Jan Dörrwächter and Johannes Harrack interviewed by hkp.com
Maximum compensation: Implications for Management Board compensation systems
When the Second European Shareholder Rights Directive was implemented specific regulations on the maximum compensation were incorporated into the German Stock Corporation Act. An with Dr. Jan Dörrwächter and Johannes Harrack. read more ...

The former hkp/// group Senior Partner Joachim Kayser interviewed by hkp.com
For more sustainability in compensation
Real estate is facing major challenges in a wide variety of different ways. A discussion with industry expert and former hkp/// group Senior Partner Joachim Kayser on backgrounds, solutions and the action that needs to be taken. read more ...
Digitalization, Start-ups & IT-Tools

encourageventures investor breakfast at hkp/// group office Frankfurt
More than a matter of gender: start-up teams are diverse
On October 24, 2022, Elke Eller and Harriet Sebald welcomed around 20 investors to the female investor breakfast of the encourageventures Rhine-Main Hub at the Frankfurt office of hkp// group. read more ...

Marco Klein (TRUMPF) and Holger Jungk (hkp/// group) interviewed by hkp.com
Internal digitalization: executive managers as the key to success
HR digitalization experts Marco Klein (TRUMPF) and Holger Jungk (hkp/// group) report on the TRUMPF Group’s path to becoming a digital champion and explain what the most important aspect is when implementing a new HR system. read more ...
Compensation & Benefits, Grading

John Pfeiffer and Verena Vandervelt interviewed by hkp.com
Job evaluation: Agility – a driving force of innovation
hkp// group Senior Directors John Pfeiffer and Verena Vandervelt on innovative and field-tested approaches to grading/job evaluation under dynamic conditions. read more ...

Insights into an international research project of the University of California/Berkley together with the ifo Institute and support by hkp// group
New research on compensation strategies
Compensation is a success factor for corporate goals. However, there is a lack of large-scale evidence on its effectiveness. hkp.com spoke with Ingrid Hägele, labor market economist, and hkp/// group Senior Partner Petra Knab-Hägele. read more ...
Performance & Compensation Benchmarking

Insights by hkp/// group compensation expert Jennifer S. Schulz
Five success factors for effective fair pay projects
More and more companies have started putting their compensation reality to the test to avoid discrimination. hkp/// group compensation expert Jennifer S. Schulz explains five success factors for fair pay analyses. read more ...

Jouco Bleeker and Barry Kitz interviewed by hkp.com
Global Pay Trends on the Agenda
The change of work and compensation makes measuring and comparing compensation of executives worldwide tough. hkp.com talked to hkp/// Remunet Managing Director Jouco Bleeker and Barry Kitz, Global ExecuNet Network Manager. read more ...
Employee Participation & Equity-based Compensation

Global Equity Insights Survey 2021 provides latest insights on global market practice of equity-based compensation
Equity-based compensation trends reflect global challenges
Equal Pay is top priority, say-on-pay votes also affect equity-based compensation, COVID-19 viewed as one-off exogenic shock: Global Equity Insights Survey 2021 provides insights on global market practice of equity-based compensation. read more ...

Setting challenging yet achievable targets as a key success factor
Calibrating long-term incentive systems
The calibration of performance targets – how the target levels are set for long-terms incentives or LTIs – has a decisive impact on the incentivization of executives and other staff. read more ...
HR Strategy & Transformation

A Viewpoint by Dr. Harriet Sebald and Michael H. Kramarsch
Human Capital Management as part of EESG
The focus of investors on ESG is also moving HR into the spotlight. Investors expect information on human capital management (HCM). Dr. Harriet Sebald and Michael H. Kramarsch classify the developments on the basis of current studies. read more ...

hkp/// group Innovation Lab - the new event format
Creating HR Transformation
In spring 2019 a new event format started: the hkp/// group Innovation Lab. HR experts, forward thinkers as well as corporate professionals came together discussing solutions for the transformation of the personnel management. read more ...
Employee Experience Design & Agile Methods

Leon Jacob @ the Employee Experience conference in London
Design Thinking for Employee Experience
Leon Jacob explains how Design Thinking helps to design the Employee Experience. In April he will teach you how to turn employees into fans using agile methods: at the EX Design Bootcamp in Frankfurt. read more ...

Agile working methods in HR projects
Scrum, Design Thinking, Hackathons & Co.
Agile working methods are increasingly popular in HR projects. What opportunities and challenges come with them? And what should personnel management be aware of when using them? hkp.com spoke to Leon Jacob and Nils Meier. read more ...
Strategic Talent Management

hkp// group consultants Karolin Schaper and Frank Gierschmann interviewed by hkp.com
Performance Management quo vadis - the end of Best Practices?
Where is the journey in performance management heading to? hkp// group consultants Karolin Schaper and Frank Gierschmann interviewed by hkp.com. read more ...

Frank Gierschmann and David Voggeser on the necessity of retaining success-critical employees
Restrictions and retention: Retaining talent in the current crisis
Cost-cutting, restructuring and downsizing re seen as ways of ensuring economic survival. Frank Gierschmann and David Voggeser explain why measures are also needed to retain employees who are critical to success. read more ...
New Performance Management

Institutional investors are increasingly focusing on ESG (environmental, social, governance) issues - HCM aspects are being prioritized more than ever
Investors’ focus on Human Capital Management – opportunity for HR
At first, the investors' focus was on financials, then governance issues played a key role, followed by a broader view on sustainability. In the meantime, human capital management (HCM) issues are being prioritized more strongly. read more ...

Understandable and action guiding
Communicating and implementing incentive systems
Incentive systems are only successful if the executives and other staff they affect fully understand them and gear their mindset and behavior toward the goals they contain. read more ...
HR in Financial Services

Amended version of the “Institiutsvergütungsverordnung” (IVV 4.0) published
Remuneration Ordinance for Institutions 4.0 finalized
On September 24, 2021, the amended version of the Remuneration Ordinance for Institutions (Institutsvergütungsverordnung, IVV 4.0), which had been expected since the beginning of the year, was published in the German Federal Law Gazette. read more ...

Conducting external market comparisons for companies in the financial services sector
Surveys & Benchmarking
Finding the “right” level and structure for employee compensation is a sensitive issue. Compensation surveys and individual benchmarks can help to find answers for compensation policy decisions. read more ...

Top Level Comp&Ben-Training Mai 2023
Die Herausforderungen an HR und Comp&Ben verändern sich stetig durch regulatorische Neuerungen, Digitalisierung und Transformationsprozesse. Das Comp&Ben-Training der hkp/// group informiert Sie über Handlungsfelder und moderne Instrumente.
11. May 2023, Frankfurt
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