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Enayati promoted to Assistant Executive Director within ICS

Hassan Enayati has been promoted to Assistant Executive Director within the Institute for Compensation Studies.
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Enayati promoted to Assistant Executive Director within ICS

ICS participates in ADP’s The State of the Labor Market Summit 2019

Linda Barrington, executive director of the Institute for Compensation Studies, participated in a panel discussion on “The State of the U.S. Labor Market” at the ADP Research Institute (ADPRI) third annual State of the Labor Market Summit 2019
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ICS participates in ADP’s The State of the Labor Market Summit 2019

Nicholas Saleh MILR '19

Student Researcher at the Institute for Compensation Studies
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Nicholas Saleh MILR '19

Workplace Equity Trailblazers

Human Resources Executive

Today is Equal Pay Day; Professor Ileen deVault describes the contributions of three who helped lay a foundation for wage equity.

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Workplace Equity Trailblazers

What Happens to Workers Focused on Money?

The prioritization of money may be at odds with our perceptions of human nature, and can have implications for workplace relationships and culture.
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What Happens to Workers Focused on Money?

Research for the Real World: Looking for Talent in All the Right (New) Places

Linda Barrington discusses tighter labor markets spurring innovative recruitment practices in September’s Research for the Real World.
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Research for the Real World: Looking for Talent in All the Right (New) Places

A Ban on Salary History

In an attempt to reduce the gender pay gap, some cities and states have enacted “salary privacy” bills.
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A Ban on Salary History

Shaping the Future of Work

A Handbook for Action and a New Social Contract.
Cover of the book "Shaping the Future of Work."
Shaping the Future of Work

Research for the Real World: Shouldn’t We Pay for Doing Good?

Pay for performance, variable pay, incentive bonuses. Many organizations continue to seek more and better ways to link rewards to action.

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Research for the Real World: Shouldn’t We Pay for Doing Good?

Layoff Lessons Learned

After the Great Recession’s histor­ically slow labor market recovery and a presidential campaign that many say turned on the frustra­tions of displaced workers, layoffs have become prominent in the U.S. psyche.
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Layoff Lessons Learned

ICS Research Student Destin Royer presents at SUNY Undergraduate Research Conference

At this years’ SUNY Undergraduate Research Conference, Destin Royer, Arts & Science ’18, presented his research finding on the macro net effect of job creation and destruction in the retail industry.
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ICS Research Student Destin Royer presents at SUNY Undergraduate Research Conference

Past ICS research student earns Possen Memorial Award

Noah Kwicklis A&S ‘17 has earned highest honors on his undergraduate thesis “Poverty, the Earned Income Tax Credit, and the Mental Health of Children and Adolescents.”
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Past ICS research student earns Possen Memorial Award