People are the true engine of transformation. We help organizations design future forward structures, rewards, and cultures that unlock potential and drive sustainable growth. Combining data-driven insight with human understanding and engaging employee experiences. From organization design and career frameworks to people analytics and market research, we ensure every element of your people strategy supports your broader business goals. Together, we create organizations where people thrive — and performance follows.
When people thrive, organizations move forward. From structure and rewards to culture and careers, we design systems where people can grow and deliver their best work. Working alongside your teams, we co-create solutions that empower, engage, and endure.
We provide guidance to translate your vision into a clear organizational structure. From redesigning job frameworks to aligning roles, our transparent, tailored solutions help you operate efficiently and focus on growth. For rewards, your employees deserve ones that match your organization’s culture and business goals. We craft tailored compensation policies, drawing on extensive experience and industry trends to attract top talent, boost engagement, and support your long-term success. Navigating pensions is complex, but we simplify the process. From policy design to implementation, we ensure your pension plan complements your remuneration strategy, balancing employee and organizational needs. We are with you at every step; formulations, communication, administration and ongoing support.
Through interactive workshops and expert guidance, we work with clients to define roles, responsibilities, and organizational structures based on strategic goals—not outdated hierarchies or individual histories. We map processes, structure roles into job families, and create role descriptions that support job evaluation, career development, and performance management.
The AI-driven HR enterprise moves beyond static workforce understanding to real-time optimization. At Highberg, we apply deep analytical rigor with cutting-edge AI implementation to deliver intelligent systems built on the sameprinciples trusted by industry leaders like ASML and Friesland Campina. We don’t just draft visionary blueprints; we build the HR analytics infrastructure that transforms raw data into a more effective organization and a betterexperience for your employees.
We help organizations in solving their most pressing marketing, communication, and employee challenges — powered by hard facts and real data. Our Market Research team helps you make confident, evidence-based decisions that drive impact and growth. Great decisions start with great questions. Together, we define the right research approach — qualitative, quantitative, or a blend of both — to uncover what truly matters.
In an era where change is the order of the day, organizations face complex challenges. This requires simultaneously playing chess on multiple boards, where both employee satisfaction and customer satisfaction must not be compromised. For today’s challenges and tomorrow’s transformations, Highberg Interim Management stands ready to guide your organization toward sustainable change.
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IKEA made headlines with a generous new collective labour agreement (CLA). Equally notable is the company’s newly developed reward policy. Everything is done in co-creation with the trade unions, say Jessica Samrén and Kim van der Hoeven of IKEA.
In our previous blog post we explored the value of using an advanced equal pay methodology: it offers deeper insights into the root causes of pay gaps and supports with legislation like the EU Pay Transparency Directive. That naturally leads to the next question: what methodologies are available? In this blog post, we share with you several methods we have come across in our field of work. Side note. In this blog series, we take the gender equal pay analysis as an example, but of course also other (two) groups can be compared, for example Western versus non-Western employees.
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