Strategic Compensation: A Human Resource Management Approach
Author: Joseph J J Martocchio
This edition reflects the importance of employees as a key element of strategic compensation programs. Martocchio explores the art of compensation and its role in promoting companies' competitive advantages. This text helps students comprehend the myriad aspects of strategy in compensation systems with discussion of compensation practices, the context of compensation practice, the criteria used to compensate employees, compensation system design issues, employee benefits, and contemporary challenges that compensation professionals will face well into the twenty-first century.
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A text for undergraduate and graduate business students, including those in community colleges, addressing traditional aspects of compensation, such as job analysis and pay structure, as well as recent topics including knowledge-based pay and executive compensation. Contains sections on the context of compensation practice, bases for pay, designing compensation systems, employee benefits, and contemporary strategic compensation challenges. Includes chapter objectives, summaries, key terms, discussion questions, and exercises, with answers on a Web site. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
Table of Contents:
| Preface | ||
| Introduction | ||
| Pt. 1 | Setting the Stage for Strategic Compensation | 1 |
| Ch. 1 | Compensation: A Component of Human Resource Systems | 1 |
| Ch. 2 | Strategic Compensation: Attaining a Competitive Advantage | 21 |
| Ch. 3 | Contextual Influences on Compensation Practice | 49 |
| Pt. 2 | Bases for Pay | 75 |
| Ch. 4 | Traditional Bases for Pay: Seniority and Merit | 75 |
| Ch. 5 | Incentive Pay | 103 |
| Ch. 6 | Pay-for-Knowledge and Skill-Based Pay | 131 |
| Pt. 3 | Designing Compensation Systems | 153 |
| Ch. 7 | Building Internally Consistent Compensation Systems | 153 |
| Ch. 8 | Building Market-Competitive Compensation Systems | 189 |
| Ch. 9 | Building Pay Structures That Recognize Individual Contributions | 223 |
| Pt. 4 | Employee Benefits | 253 |
| Ch. 10 | Legally Required Benefits | 253 |
| Ch. 11 | Discretionary Benefits | 273 |
| Pt. 5 | Contemporary Strategic Compensation Challenges | 311 |
| Ch. 12 | International Compensation | 311 |
| Ch. 13 | Compensating Executives | 341 |
| Ch. 14 | Compensating the Flexible Work Force: Contingent Employees and Flexible Work Schedules | 367 |
| Glossary of Key Terms | 393 | |
| Author Index | 411 | |
| Subject Index | 417 |
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The World Watch Reader On Global Environmental Issues
Author: Lester Russell Brown
A new collection of articles drawn from World Watch magazine, winner of an Utne Reader Alternative Press Award for investigative reporting. A collection of the best and most-requested articles from the Worldwatch Institute's award-winning magazine, World Watch. What ails the earth and how can we fix it? People all over the world are wrestling with this question, and requesting reliable information on the nature of the environmental threats and how to deal with them.
The World Watch Reader responds to this need for timely, authoritative information. Written by the world's preeminent environmental research team, this new edition of the popular anthology offers an in-depth diagnosis of the earth's ills as well as a practical vision of how to create an environmentally responsible future. In a highly readable style, the authors focus on such topics as energy and climate, the effects of water scarcity, the food prospect, oceans in distress, and consumerism and the future of the earth.
Here the global, interdisciplinary perspective that makes Worldwatch research unique is available in an accessible, compelling form. All who care about the future of the planet will want to read this volume.
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Lester Brown and the staff of the Worldwatch Institute have gained a reputation for accurate, hard-hitting reporting on
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Reprints 17 articles from World watch magazine on problems of the environment and possible solutions. No bibliography. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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