Praise for The WorldatWork Handbook of Compensation, Benefits & Total Rewards This is the definitive guide to compensation and benefits for modern HR professionals who must attract, motivate, and retain quality employees. Technical enough for specialists but broad in scope for generalists, this well-rounded resource belongs on the desk of every recruiter and HR executive. An indispensable tool for understanding and implementing the total rewards concept, the WorldatWork Handbook of Compensation, Benefits, and Total Rewards is the key to designing compensation practices that ensure organizational success. Coverage includes: Why the total rewards strategy works Developing the components of a total rewards program Common ways a total rewards program can go wrong Designing and implementing a total rewards program Communicating the total rewards vision Developing a compensation philosophy and package FLSA and other laws that affect compensation Determining and setting competitive salary levels And much more
Equip yourself to manage, motivate, compensate, and reward everyone in this workplace revolution The future of work is here. From the shift to Millennials and Gen Z in the workforce to the advent of the Fourth Industrial Revolution and the Gig Economy, the world of work and rewards has significantly changed since the initial WorldatWork Handbook was published. Human resources and total rewards professionals need tools to equip them to manage a changing workforce. This completely revised second edition addresses the challenging and disruptive issues facing employers today and tomorrow. The WorldatWork Handbook of Total Rewards is the definitive authority on compensation and rewards from the leading global nonprofit organizations for professionals who are engaged in the critically important practice of total rewards. This book is a go-to resource for all business professionals and leaders who reward and create productive, committed and inspired workforces worldwide. Readers will learn the basics of rewards, along with a deep dive and high-level view of how rewards programs enable organizations to deliver on their brand promises and perform at their optimal level. Gain a thorough understanding of compensation and benefits, along with employee well-being, development, and recognition, all updated to address the realities of today’s workplace. Understand why the Millennial and Gen Z workforce requires a different value proposition, and how to meet their needs. Discover the tools and techniques you need to help you reskill and become a highly valued workforce contributor and leader in the digital era. Learn how to attract, retain, and engage talent by building a healthy workplace culture and employing unique incentives that drive high performance and loyalty. Technical enough for specialists but broad in scope for managers and HR generalists, this well-rounded resource belongs on the desk of anyone interested in organizational effectiveness. An indispensable tool for understanding and implementing the total rewards concept, The WorldatWork Handbook of Total Rewards, Second Edition is the key to designing programs and practices that ensure employee engagement and organizational success.
From now into the future, we believe that Total Rewards are going to be the differentiator of great organizations vs. good ones. It's the most powerful way to motivate employees to accomplish organization objectives. This book provides a step-by-step road map for the development of the appropriate Total Rewards Strategy to suit any organization's broader organizational and people strategies. The reader will find in this book a way to break down the organization strategy into an operational set of principles that will result in a Total Rewards Strategy that directly supports desired outcomes.
Straight answers to your compensation questions An A-to-Z guide to compensation strategy and design, Compensation Handbook, Fourth Edition, has been completely revised and updated to keep you on top of the important changes that have taken place in this area. Editors Lance A. Berger and Dorothy R. Berger have assembled articles by leading compensation practitioners to give you authoritative solutions to a wide range of specific compensation problems. This important new edition shares with you the best thinking on attracting and retaining outstanding employees in a tight market...executive compensation...computers and compensation...how to use a mix of compensation devices...and much, much more.
Most organizations fail to pay their employees properly-not because they don't want to, but because they don't approach compensation with a plan. The compensation landscape is changing rapidly. If you don't pay your employees what they're worth, not only will your competitors leave you behind, but you'll also leave yourself open to legal, social, and political backlash. As an HR professional or manager, how do you navigate the confusing world of compensation? Pay Matters is your go-to guide for demystifying the art and science of compensation. Step-by-step, David Weaver explains how to perform a detailed market analysis that reveals exactly how much each position in your organization should be paid. You'll also learn how to develop a pay philosophy specifically tailored to your organization and strike the elusive balance between profit and labor costs. With precisely calibrated base salaries, rewards programs, and enticing incentives, you'll be able to keep your best employees. Don't leave salaries open to the caprices of your organization's senior leaders. Approach them confidently with a proven methodology. After all, pay matters.
In Compensation and Benefit Design, Bashker D. Biswas shows exactly how to bring financial rigor to crucial "people" decisions associated with compensation and benefit program development. This comprehensive book begins by introducing a valuable Human Resource Life Cycle Model for considering compensation and benefit programs. Biswas thoroughly addresses the acquisition component of compensation, as well as issues related to general compensation, equity compensation, and pension accounting. He assesses the full financial impact of executive compensation programs and employee benefit plans, and discusses the unique issues associated with international HR systems and programs. This book contains a full chapter on HR key indicator reporting, and concludes with detailed coverage of trends in human resource accounting, and the deepening linkages between financial and HR planning. Replete with both full and "mini" case examples throughout, this book will be valuable to a wide spectrum of HR and financial professionals, with titles including compensation and benefits analysts, managers, directors, and consultants; HR specialists, accounting specialists, financial analysts, total rewards directors, controller, finance director, benefits actuaries, executive compensation consultants, corporate regulators, and labor attorneys. It also contains chapter-ending exercises and problems for use by students in HR and finance programs.
As a field, human resources has been slow to evolve, despite a great need and opportunity for change. Human Resource Excellence delivers the newest findings about what makes HR successful and how it can add value to today's organizations. Tracing changes in a global sample of firms across the US, Europe, and Asia, this landmark volume provides an international benchmark against which to measure a company's HR practice. For over twenty years, USC's Center for Effective Organizations has conducted the definitive longitudinal study of the human resource management function. Analyzing new data every three years, the Center charts changes in HR and offers guidance on how human resource professionals can drive firm performance. In this latest survey, Edward E. Lawler III and John W. Boudreau conclude that HR is most powerful when it plays a strategic role, makes use of information technology, and has tangible metrics and analytics. Their insights offer an essential understanding of HR's changing role in strategy, big data, social and knowledge networks, and the gig economy.
The essential resource for designing and implementing employee benefits—bringing you up to date on critical new industry changes For nearly three decades, HR professionals and consultants have depended on The Handbook of Employee Benefits for authoritative answers to their questions about designing and implementing competitive employee benefits packages. Covering everything from general objectives to costs, this classic reference brings you up to date on critical changes driven by legislative developments, such as the new health-care reform law enacted by the passing of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. The seventh edition of The Handbook of Employee Benefits features the knowledge and insights of the leading scholars and practitioners in the field. Filled with new and updated information and real-world examples, this edition focuses on health and group benefits: Health Benefits: health-care reform’s impact on employee benefits, new approaches to cost containment, how to access quality care, consumer-driven health-care plan designs along with dental, behavioral, prescription, and long-term care programs Life Insurance: group term, universal life, and corporate-owned life programs Work/Life Programs: traditional time off and family leave, child and elder care, and assistance for education, financial planning, and voluntary benefits Social Insurance Programs: Social Security, Medicare, and workers’ and unemployment compensation programs Group and Health Benefit Plan Financial Management: federal tax laws, funding health benefit plans—insured, self-funded, and captive arrangements Employee Benefit Administration: flexible benefit plans, fiduciary liability issues, and communications Issues of Special Interest: retiree welfare benefits, small company benefits, multiemployer plans, and international employee benefit planning An innovative, efficient employee benefit program has become one of the primary prerequisites to success in today’s lean business battleground. The Handbook of Employee Benefits provides the knowledge and tools you need to create plans that benefit the greatest number of employees, while allowing employers to maintain fiscal integrity and competitive advantage.
The Compensation and Benefits Manual is a detailed illustration of Total Rewards, an advanced model of Human Resource management that goes beyond employee remuneration, which helps organizations to not only attract, motivate and retain, but also ensure building engaged employees, enhancing their performance and improving their competitiveness in the global workforce market.WHAT YOU WILL LEARN1.Fundamental concepts of compensation, benefits, rewards & total rewards.2.Link your compensation philosophies & strategies to your organization goals & HR objectives.3.About job evaluations & job pricing, and their significance in setting salaries & employee rewards.4.About the key statistical methodologies used in compensation research & data analysis.5.How to design appropriate & relevant total compensation plans & reward programs.6.About the principles of evaluating performance and linking performance to effective rewards.7.About market compensation & benefits benchmarking surveys & how to use the market data results in determining your internal salary levels.8.How to develop performance-based pay systems & other variable pay programs.9.How to design compensation structures & flexible pay plans based on tax laws and statutory compliances.10.How to design effective reward communication programs for your business successCONTENT AND COVERAGE1.CHAPTER 1 : COMPENSATION SYSTEMSIntroduction, Understanding of the Fundamentals of Compensation, Benefits, Rewards, Total Rewards, Components of Compensation Systems, Compensation Systems in the Indian Environment, Compensation Approach and Framework. 2.CHAPTER 2: REWARD CONCEPTS Reward Philosophy, Reward Strategy, Total Reward Programs, Factors Affecting Rewards, Statutory Compliances, Environmental Factors, Impact of Globalization on Compensation Programs.3.CHAPTER 3 : JOB EVALUATION AND PRICINGJob Evaluation, Aspects of Job Evaluation, Job Evaluation Methodologies, Job Design, Point Rating Method, Hay Guide Chart Profile, Job Evaluation and Pay Determination, Job Pricing, Broad Banding, Linking Job Points to Pay Points.4.CHAPTER 4 : COMPENSATION SURVEYS & DATA ANALYSISCompensation Surveys, Types of Surveys, Job Equivalence, Survey Data Analysis, Job Evaluation and Salary Data, Grade Point and Market Salary, Median Pay, Percentiles, Compensation Ratios, Salary Rates, Salary Equity, Market Parity.5.CHAPTER 5 : DEVELOPING COMPENSATION STRUCTURESEvolution of Compensation Structures, Types of Employee Rewards, Standard Reward Practices, Flexible Pay Programs, Developing Different Compensation Structures in a Global Environment, Communicating of Compensation and Benefits Structures as 'Employee Value Proposition'.6.CHAPTER 6 : VARIABLE PAY PLANSVariable Pays, Types of Variable Pays (STI, MTI, LTI), Trends in Variable Pays, Designing Variable Pays, Steps in Introducing Variable Pays, Rewarding Critical Roles & Hot Skills, Different Types of Variable Pay Programs. 7.CHAPTER 7 : LINKING REWARDS TO PERFORMANCE Defining Performance Parameters, Measuring Performance, Basic Guidelines for Rewarding, Typical Reward Models, Linking Rewards to Performance, Pay for Performance, Integrating Total Rewards with Job, Market & Performance.8.CHAPTER 8 : REWARD COMMUNICATIONCommunication of Reward Programs, Changing Approach to Reward Communications, Steps in Effective Reward Communication, Implementation Guidelines for Reward Programs in Organizations.9.CHAPTER 9 : CASE STUDIESMeritt has trained more than 1,000 HR, Line and Business Professionals from over 500 Organizations from India and Middle East Countries. Meritt delivers these Trainings through its dedicated Training Division, called "MERITT LEARNING CENTER". For details contact -Meritt Learning Center9810557518; 7428466822;[email protected]
