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Author Perkins, Stephen J.

Title Reward management : alternatives, consequences and contexts / Stephen J. Perkins and Geoff White
Edition Second edition
Published London : Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, 2011

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Description xix, 472 pages : illustrations. ; 25 cm
Contents Contents note continued: Chapter summary: key learning points and conclusions -- Explore further -- ch. 9 Non-financial Reward -- Chapter objectives -- CIPD Professional Map (performance and reward) coverage -- Introduction -- Defining non-financial reward -- A high-investment employment experience -- Unpacking the total reward employment experience -- Total reward, employee engagement: managing work(er) identity? -- Chapter summary: key learning points and conclusions -- Explore further -- Part Four -- ch. 10 Rewarding Directors and Executives -- Chapter objectives -- CIPD Professional Map (performance and reward) coverage -- Introduction -- What do executives earn? How does it compare with other employees? What are the arguments for and against? -- So much for substance -- what about the process? -- The corporate governance context -- Theorising executive reward -- contested terrain -- Designing and reporting on executive reward --
Contents note continued: Executive reward compliance/disclosure issues -- Behind what is in the portfolio -- The remuneration committee's role -- The reward specialist's role in executive reward management -- Executive reward in the public sector -- Chapter summary: key learning points and conclusions -- Explore further -- ch. 11 International Reward Management -- Chapter objectives -- CIPD Professional Map (performance and reward) coverage -- Introduction -- Rewarding expatriation -- rewarding multi-local talent -- Convergent transnational capital power -- divergent business systems -- Not for profits alone -- Multinational contexts for employee reward management -- Choices for multinational management, and their reward consequences -- Factors and trends in rewarding expatriated knowledge mobilisation -- Defining expatriates -- Expatriate assignments -- Accounting for expatriate reward management -- The HR role -- scope for tension with the line --
Contents note continued: Factors and trends in rewarding non-expatriated knowledge mobilisation -- Chapter summary: key learning points and conclusions -- Explore further -- ch. 12 Reward Management Within HRM -- Chapter objectives -- CIPD Professional Map (performance and reward) coverage -- Introduction -- Defining ̀HRM' -- Strategy perspectives and employee reward choices -- Strategic reward (aka the ̀new pay'): advocates and critics -- Actors and their roles in employee reward management under the HRM rubric -- Chapter summary: key learning points and conclusions -- Explore further
Contents note continued: Service- or seniority-based pay -- Age-related pay -- Performance-based pay -- The performance management cycle -- Competency-based pay -- Skills-based pay -- Market-based pay -- Compensatory payments -- Chapter summary: key learning points and conclusions -- Explore further -- ch. 6 Variable Pay Schemes -- Chapter objectives -- CIPD Professional Map (performance and reward) coverage -- Introduction -- Some key concepts -- The dimensions of incentives -- How common is variable pay? -- Individual results-based rewards -- Individual piecework -- Work-measured schemes -- Measured day work -- Commission -- Results-based individual bonuses -- Team-based rewards -- Types of teamworking -- Measuring team performance -- How is the reward distributed? -- Collective short-term rewards -- Collective long-term rewards -- The incidence of employee share schemes -- Chapter summary: key learning points and conclusions -- Explore further -- Part Three --
Contents note continued: Wage gap (or union mark-up) theory -- Criticism of neo-institutionalist arguments -- Tournament theory and winner-takes-all regimes -- Alternative perspectives on employee motivation and reward -- Definitions of motivation -- Instincts, learned behaviours, and expectancy -- The psychological contract and reward -- Individuals, institutions and strategic alignment -- Chapter summary: key learning points and conclusions -- Explore further -- ch. 3 The Legal, Employment Relations and Market Context -- Chapter objectives -- CIPD Professional Map (performance and reward) coverage -- Introduction -- Regulating the reward system -- The impact of anti-discriminatory legislation -- The legal regulation of reward systems -- The law affecting benefits -- Collective bargaining -- Levels of pay determination -- The impact of the labour market -- Criteria for pay increases -- Chapter summary: key learning points and conclusions -- Explore further -- Part Two --
Contents note continued: ch. 4 Base Pay Structures and Relationships -- Chapter objectives -- CIPD Professional Map (performance and reward) coverage -- Introduction -- Grading structures -- The historical development of grading structures -- The importance of equal-pay law -- The objectives of grading structures -- Types of pay structure -- Job evaluation -- The development of job evaluation -- The critique of job evaluation -- The types of job evaluation -- The prevalence of job evaluation in the UK -- Choosing a job evaluation scheme -- Aligning pay with the market -- Sources of pay intelligence -- Equal pay reviews -- Chapter summary: key learning points and conclusions -- Explore further -- ch. 5 Pay Setting, Composition and Progression -- Chapter objectives -- CIPD Professional Map (performance and reward) coverage -- Introduction -- Wages versus salary systems -- Reward contingencies -- Pay progression and equal-pay risks -- Time- or performance-based reward? --
Contents note continued: ch. 7 Benefits -- Chapter objectives -- CIPD Professional Map (performance and reward) coverage -- Introduction -- An absence of theory -- The growth of employee benefits -- Typologies of employee benefits -- Employee attitudes to benefits -- Benefits policies and decisions -- Benefits provision in the UK -- Welfare benefits -- Work-related benefits -- Status benefits -- Flexible benefits -- Voluntary benefits -- Salary sacrifice schemes -- Chapter summary: key learning points and conclusions -- Explore further -- ch. 8 Pensions -- Chapter objectives -- CIPD Professional Map (performance and reward) coverage -- Introduction -- The origins of UK pension schemes -- The UK state pension scheme -- UK occupational pension schemes today -- Types of occupational pension scheme -- Other types of scheme -- Equality issues -- The major benefits available -- Stakeholder pensions -- The role of HR in pensions -- The pensions crisis --
Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Introducing the Reward Management System -- Chapter objectives -- CIPD Professional Map (performance and reward) coverage -- Locating ideas and practices around reward management -- Employee reward levels vs labour costs -- Situating reward management systemically -- Rewarding the employment relationship -- Influences on employee reward thinking -- Employee reward and the employer--employee dyad -- A few words on our tripartite taxonomy -- Chapter summary -- Plan of the book -- Explore further -- Part One -- ch. 2 Conceptual and Theoretical Frameworks -- Chapter objectives -- CIPD Professional Map (performance and reward) coverage -- Introduction -- The importance of theory in reward management -- Managing the effort bargain: theoretical pillars -- Labour market theory -- Alternative economic theories of reward -- Human capital theory -- Efficiency wage theory -- Principal-agent theory -- Internal labour markets --
Summary This textbook completely maps to the CIPD module of the same name and is also ideal for students on reward modules on wider HR or Business degree programmes. It provides international case studies and examples, and links to practical tools via end-of-chapter web links
Notes Includes Internet access
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Compensation management.
Performance awards.
Author White, Geoff, 1949-
Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development.
ISBN 1843982633 (paperback)
9781843982630 (paperback)