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Title: Compensation Handbook: A State-of-the-Art Guide to Compensation Strategy and Design Editors: Lance and Dorothy Berger Published by: McGraw-Hill; New York Published: 2000 Fourth Edition 646 pages: includes bibliographic references and index
Reviewed by: James F. Kisela |
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Overview "Twenty-seven years ago, Milton L. Rock realized the need of compensation professionals to have an authoritative, practical, comprehensive reference book that would provide an all-inclusive guide for the establishing and maintaining an effective wage and salary program for every employee over the vast range of industries. Milt assembled a corporate and academic advisory board to develop the format for this groundbreaking venture. The winning formula they created has brought the original Handbook of Wage and Salary Administration through two previous revisions to this fourth edition. All four editions provide timely and useful codified compensation methodologies and conceptual frameworks presented by recognized experts. Although the world has undergone enormous technological changes, companies have appeared or disappeared, companies have merged or downsized, job markets have evolved or dissolved, and workforce issues have increasingly come to includd work environment, learning opportunities, and work-life benefits, the original hankdbllk format remains a viable means for covering all compensation issues Thanks to the efforts of 56 compensation specialists, the fourth edition addresses current and future compensation issues with a similar hankds-on, how-to-approach that was developed for the initial book. Chapters on computer technology, work-life issues, and global compensation have been added to address emerging themes. Many of the original chapter headings, although the chapters were revised to reflect changing conditions, are pertinent today. We dedicate the fourth edition of The Compensation Handbook with appreciation and affection to Milton L. Rock, business guru and visionary." Dorothy R. Berger Lance A. Berger (Preface, page ix) |
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Contents
| Preface | |
| Part 1 Introduction | |
| Part 2 Base Compensation | |
| Part 3 Variable Compensation | |
| Part 4 Executive Compensation | |
| Part 5 Performance and Compensation | |
| Part 6 Corporate Culture and Compensation | |
| Part 7 International Compensation | |
| Index |