WorldatWork Organizational Strategy
(Updated 2008)

Mission
WorldatWork enables organizations to reward employees in ways that satisfy and engage them, and produce desired business results.

About Us
WorldatWork is a professional association focused on compensation, benefits, work-life effectiveness and integrated total rewards – strategies to attract, motivate and retain an engaged and productive workforce. We are the go-to source for content and the facilitator of professional community, serving individuals and organizations around the world. WorldatWork is the place to learn, experience, connect, validate and apply principles and practices for those who perform total rewards work, and to raise awareness among those who impact total rewards.

Our Work

1. Knowledge: Equip individuals and organizations to more effectively attract, motivate and retain employees; create, deliver and disseminate education, resources and information; publish articles and books; conduct surveys and research
2. Professional Development: Conduct training classes, conferences and other events; certify practitioners
3. Issues Leadership: Facilitate and drive thought leadership; engage in public policy activities (educate and inform decision-makers, in government and companies/organizations, who influence or control policies and practices affecting total rewards)
4. Professional Affiliation: Foster professional community; provide membership benefits.

Our Audiences
WorldatWork serves individuals, companies and organizations around the world:

1. People who perform total rewards work
2. Individuals and organizations that care about total rewards work

Our Operating Philosophy
WorldatWork is a mission-focused enterprise that embraces sound business practices to ensure financial strength and long-term viability. Experimentation, tenacity, operational excellence, and constant re-evaluation of our value and relevance are core to our ongoing success. We achieve and maintain our premier status by:

• Creating powerful collaborative relationships among our staff and volunteers, and with all our constituents
• Holding ourselves – staff, Board, volunteers, certification-holders – to the highest professional and ethical standards
• Constantly reinforcing our core values of integrity, mutual respect, fairness and the belief that work should be invigorating, satisfying and engaging.
• Attracting, motivating and retaining the best talent to advance our mission and serve our customers