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Workspan Daily
02/09/2023
Your approach to setting salary increase budgets should be taken with your organization’s financial and competitive situation in mind, rather than what you are reading in today’s headlines.
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Workspan Magazine
08/08/2024
We have seen that companies, especially in the tech industry, are early adopters to AI-based quota setting and leverage AI models to set quotas or, at the very least, use AI-based market potential measures.
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Journal Article
08/23/2024
Performance equity provides additional upside and/or downside leverage to traditional equity incentives based on set performance goals.
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Journal Article
08/25/2025
So we set out to quantify how common performance measures that we see in company executive incentive plans actually related to stock market performance over the last five years.
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Workspan Daily
04/17/2025
;This payout pattern suggests extreme outcomes (both low and high payouts) are more frequent than normal distribution would predict.;
;However, if the company’s pay philosophy encourages ambitious goal-setting and embraces volatility, this approach may be appropriate.;
;Conversely, if the organization intends to provide stable, predictable compensation, it may need to adjust its goal-setting framework to reduce variability.;
Blending Data and Strategy in Goal-Setting
Goal setting in executive incentive plans is both an art and a science.
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Workspan Daily
10/26/2023
;Primary performance measure was set at 60% weight and recurring revenue performance measure was set at 40% to motivate sales salespeople mindshare to service, consumables and reagents sales.; The company provided intensive training and communication materials to educate and engage the sales force on the new plan.
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Research
01/30/2025
You can download a graphic report of findings, a summary analysis of the trends or a short quiz that you can use to start productive goal-setting conversations in your organization.
Workspan Daily
12/04/2025
Nearly 40% of respondents took one or more actions to address incentive plan goal-setting challenges, such as delaying the timing to finalize goals, widening performance ranges, and adding or increasing the emphasis on relative metrics.;
;Most respondents are not planning significant changes to incentive plan designs for 2026 or the
short-term incentive (STI ) performance mix or
long-term incentive (LTI) award vehicle mix.Most also have not made changes to equity grant practices in response to stock market volatility or proposed shareholder advisory group policy changes.;
;Among respondents with
incentive cycles ending in 2025, most (roughly half for STI and 60% for LTI) do not currently anticipate the use of discretion, with one-third taking a “wait and see” approach.
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Journal Article
07/04/2022
However, it’s important to note that the research on employee participation in goal setting is mixed, with other research finding that supervisor-set goals are more powerful than self-set goals (CIPD 2016).
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Workspan Daily
03/24/2022
Sales compensation designers apply a set of uniform principles to each unique job to arrive at the best incentive plan design.
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