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"In Aligning Pay and Results, fourteen compensation experts provide answers, techniques, and insights on the complex issues involved in incentive- and performance-based pay programs. With the practical help this book provides (in both the human and technical arenas), you'll have a good start toward creating a pay environment that energizes employees, encourages innovation, and fuels growth for years to come."--Jacket.
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"Here is an illustrated guide to the mysteries and mystique of how people are compensated for their efforts in all types of organizations. Intensely practical, with clear discussions of what works, what doesn't, and why; Caruth and Handlogten's book covers such topics as job evaluation, job pricing, employee benefit programs, pay for performance, and also the compensation of executives, sales personnel, and international employees. Executives and...
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This well-documented brief demonstrates that both poverty and excessive economic inequality are inimical to the maintenance of a healthy republic, and notes that providing a living wage is not only fair, but is superior to any other public policy such as cash transfers (or the Earned Income Tax Credit) in the effort to fight poverty.
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"More than just a standard outline of reward systems-of-the-moment, this book explains the do's and don'ts of building a competitive, successful pay system - and helps you avoid the failures inherent in a pay system that stands apart from your company's overall business plan. The book covers: sources of business strategy; forces influencing compensation strategy; work analysis and evaluation; base pay systems and structures; measurement of individual,...
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This lecture launcher directed by Steve James shows how Seattle became ground zero in 2013 for the heated national debate about increasing the minimum wage to $15 per hour. "The Value of Work" gives voice to supporters and the opponents, including the mayor, an activist city councilwoman, small business owners, and minimum-wage workers affected by the unprecedented legislation. Part of WE THE ECONOMY, a series of short films developed by renowned...
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"In this book Edward E. Lawler III identifies a variety of reward system practices that support the high-performance organization model. He shows how the development of core competencies and organizational capabilities is enhanced once a company learns how to pay people instead of jobs. He also details new methods for measuring and rewarding performance and for determining how much of an individual's pay should be based on performance."--Jacket.
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With almost one-third of all working people today earning wages below the official poverty line, community coalitions around the country have responded by proposing "living wage" ordinances at the municipal level. This book analyzes the specifics of this new economic concept, as well as documents the results of its implementation in cities around the nation. Illustrated.
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See the stories of four teachers in different areas of the country, revealing the frustrating realities of today's teachers, the difficulty of attracting talented new educators, and why so many of our best teachers leave the profession altogether. Can we re-value teaching and turn it into a prestigious, financially attractive, and desirable profession? With almost half of American teachers leaving the field in the next ten years, now is the time to...
15) Compensation and motivation: maximizing employee performance with behavior-based incentive plans
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"Forward-thinking companies are waking up to the fact that compensation is not merely a financial cost, but a powerful tool that can boost performance and profits at all levels of the organization. Linking psychology and pay is both an art and a science, and Compensation and Motivation is the first complete guide to this cutting-edge approach." "For more than fifteen years, author Thomas J. McCoy has improved the performance of organizations through...
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"Using new Census data, Moving Up or Moving On follows a group of low earners over a nine-year period to analyze the behaviors and characteristics of individuals and employers that lead workers to successful career outcomes. The authors find that, in general, workers who "moved on" to different employers fared better than those who tried to "move up" within the same firm. While changing employers meant losing valuable job tenure and spending more...
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In this film, HR consultant Peter Wallbridge explains the importance of ensuring fair and thorough remuneration policies based on business strategy. A business must clarify principles and policy, investigate competitors' remuneration and evaluate its own capacity to pay. It must figure out its remuneration cycle. The policy should be the basis for discussion with employees about salary. Wallbridge explains what the total remuneration capacity consists...
18) Where am I wearing?: a global tour to the countries, factories, and people that make our clothes
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Globalization makes it difficult to know where the things you buy come from. Journalist and travel writer Kelsey Timmerman wanted to know where his clothes came from and who made them, so he traveled from Honduras to Bangladesh to Cambodia to China and back. Along the way, he met the people who made his favorite clothes and learned as much about them as he did about globalization itself. Enlightening and controversial at once, this book puts a human...
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