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Date: Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Time: 8:00am -10:00am (Breakfast Meeting)
Topic: Performance and Reward Strategies for Slow Growth Times
Speaker: Anna Orgera, Principal, Mercer
Summary: Please join Anna Orgera, Principal of Mercer in the discussion of Performance and reward challenges and strategies during slow economics like it is now. Topics Anna will cover include:
- Developments in human capital management strategies
- Top reward challenges facing HR
- Highlights from Mercer Studies
--Salary increase; structure adjustment; Geographic differentials; Promotional budget; Short-term incentive
--Attracting and retaining employees
--Gas price impact
--Broader compensation prevalent practices


Anna Orgera is a Principal with Mercer based in New York City. She provides consulting services in the areas of executive and outside director's compensation, as well as broader employee performance and reward systems design.

Anna is responsible for managing the annual Mercer/Investment Company Institute (ICI) survey of Mutual fund outside director total compensation and broader governance practices. She also serves as an industry advisor for Mercer investment management industry compensation surveys. She is also Mercer's Retail Banking Industry Segment Leader.

Anna has over 20 years of experience in performance and compensation consulting. She has provided consulting assistance in executive and outside director remuneration, total compensation philosophies, levels and program design features. She has designed salary management programs using various approaches, short-term and long-term incentive plans, performance /career path management processes. She has developed both market based and internal equity based job evaluation approaches.

Before joining Mercer, Anna was a director in KPMG's Performance and Compensation consulting practices which merged with mercer in 1998. She was also a Research Analyst for a major global consulting firm.

Anna is a contributing author to Pay for Performance: A Guide to Compensation Management (John Wiley).

Anna has an MBA from Columbia University's Graduate School of Business and a BA in psychology from Swarthmore College.
Host Company:
Location: Holiday Inn, Totowa    Click here for a printable map to the meeting location
Cost: $25.00
Meal Options: Breakfast
Contact: Cindy Moratto
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2008/2009 Meeting Topics


September 9, 2008 (Tuesday) - Dinner - Total Reward Statements, ADP & Mercer

November 12, 2008 (Wednesday) - Breakfast - Meeting - Performance and Reward Strategies for Slow Growth Times; Anna Orgera, Principal, Mercer

February 10, 2009 (Tuesday) - Dinner - What's New in Long Term Incentives by Paul Dorf, Compensation Resources

April 14, 2009 - Market Pricing the World, Speaker TBD

June 9, 2009 - Topic TBD
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