Book description
The definitive guide for HR and compensation professionals—revised to help you achieve a sustainable competitive advantage for your company
The theme of the sixth edition of the classic compensation guide aligns with business’s number-one goal today: achieving a sustainable competitive advantage.
The Compensation Handbook shows you how to deal effectively with five strategic human capital issues: innovation, attracting talent and retention, big data, workforce changes, business advantage through compensation programs.
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Preface
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Part I Introduction
- 1 The State of the Compensation Practice
- 2 Using a Total Rewards Strategy to Achieve Competitive Advantage
- 3 Aligning Total Compensation Programs with Organization Values and Strategy
- 4 Winning Compensation Strategies for Organizational Sustainability
- 5 Excelling as a Compensation Professional
- 6 Emerging Compensation Issues
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Part II Base Salary
- 7 Positioning Salary Structures within the Total Rewards Context
- 8 Selecting and Developing a Salary Structure
- 9 Making Merit Pay and Bonuses Matter
- 10 The Purpose and Nature of Job Evaluation
- 11 Optimizing the Use of Salary Surveys
- 12 Rationale for and Approaches to Benchmarking
- 13 Paying for Skills, Knowledge, and Competencies
- 14 Using Nonmonetary Awards to Support Behaviors that Drive Business Results
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Part III Variable Compensation
- 15 Choosing the Incentive Compensation Program that Best Promotes Performance
- 16 Designing and Implementing Effective Variable Pay Programs
- 17 Aligning Sales Compensation Plan Design with Talent Retention Strategy
- 18 Developing and Applying a Return-on-Investment Methodology to Drive Sales Force Performance
- 19 Creating a Culture of Collaboration, Innovation, and Performance through Team-Based Incentives
- 20 Revolutionizing Workplace Culture through Scanlon Gain Sharing
- Part IV Executive Compensation
- Part V Compensation and the Board
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Part VI Performance and Compensation
- 32 A Framework for Designing a Performance-Management Process
- 33 Choosing a Performance-Appraisal System
- 34 Linking Compensation to Competitive Business Value
- 35 Using Financial Rewards to Drive Productivity
- 36 New Developments and Issues in Pay for Performance
- 37 Making Calibration an Integral Part of a Performance-Appraisal System
- 38 Guidelines for Effective Executive Performance Appraisals
- Part VII Talent Management and Compensation
- Part VIII Global Compensation
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Part IX Big Data
- 46 A Guide to Realizing the Value of Big Data
- 47 Using Workforce Analytics to Make Effective Compensation Decisions
- 48 Making Better Compensation Decisions in the Age of Big Data
- 49 Using Big Data to Enhance the Value of Compensation Programs
- 50 Turning Data into Compensation Information
- 51 Exploring New Technologies that Enhance Compensation Programs
- Contributors
- Index
- About the Editors
Product information
- Title: The Compensation Handbook, Sixth Edition: A State-of-the-Art Guide to Compensation Strategy and Design, 6th Edition
- Author(s):
- Release date: July 2015
- Publisher(s): McGraw-Hill
- ISBN: 9780071838238
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