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The 37th annual WorldatWork Salary Budget Survey is an essential instrument in your compensation planning and the longest-running survey of its kind.
The entire discussion of stock options has changed in just the past few years. Now that stock options are being required to be charged to earnings, companies are being more thoughtful than ever in their use and administration. This update of the 2005 publication addresses the issues involved, and seeks to explain many of the core aspects of stock plan administration. HR professionals and stock plan administrators interested in learning more about equity plan administration will find this book extremely valuable.
In this latest edition of a WorldatWork classic How-To book, authors Dan Purushothan and Stephanie Wilson have updated their content to reflect the global implications and considerations when building pay structures.
This handy, one-stop reference manual contains the formulas practitioners need to perform commonly used compensation and benefits calculations applied in WorldatWork's certification courses. Easy-to-understand formulas, along with frequently used glossary terms, are listed alphabetically for user convenience.
This one of-a-kind tool helps employers looking for alternative variable pay methods. It covers the four main types of cash bonuses: sign-on, referral, spot and retention. Also includes valuable 2005 survey data that contain employee eligibility, bonus amounts, payout distribution and other pertinent information, all in a reader-friendly format to help you design a cash bonus program that yields real results.
Organizations spend significant money each year on total rewards to attract, motivate and retain employees. Yet, when employees are unaware of the programs, employers fail to see the full return on their investment. This can be solved by communication. Leveraging the strength of a total rewards package through effective communication is one of the most important challenges for the HR professional.
One of the first HR challenges an organization faces when it decides to go global is how to select and compensate the first expatriate. This booklet helps employers answer some key questions such as whether to conduct or purchase a survey of corporate practices, hire a consultant, follow the competition, be creative in designing pay strategies, negotiate with each expatriate candidate or simply pay the second expatriate the way the first one was paid, and so on.
North American organizations operating abroad have tried several different compensation approaches for expatriates with varying degrees of success. This booklet describes and compares the most common methods of expatriate compensation: negotiation; localization; the balance sheet; and lump-sum and cafeteria approaches.
This booklet identifies the specific components of typical compensation programs for the benefit of HR generalists, who are not likely to be familiar with the sometimes highly technical language of compensation. Topics include: compensation philosophy, base pay, job evaluation, marketing analysis, salary ranges, legal defensibility, incentive pay, pay for performance, salary surveys, and total compensation.
Just as business objectives and strategies play an important role in shaping corporate-pay postures, so does acquiring timely and accurate compensation data. You need to be aware of the issues to consider and steps to take to effectively evaluate your organization's compensation competitiveness in the external market. One way to do that, when other data is unavailable, is to conduct a custom compensation survey. This book shows how such a survey might be conducted, analyzed and presented successfully.
In this update, authors Bruce Overton and Mary Steele bring these present-day issues to the fore and provide a framework for the audit or initial design of managerial incentive compensation plans. They discuss the selection of various plan types within an established total compensation strategy, along with alternative solutions to issues related to the design of incentive compensation plans.
This booklet explains the following aspects of designing an effective sales compensation plan: linking the sales compensation plan to business strategy; establishing the design team; assessing the current plan; designing the new plan; implementing the new plan; and evaluating results.
This booklet shows how to define, design, implement and evaluate an effective goalsharing program. Topics include: how goalsharing compares with other group incentives; how goalsharing works; setting up a goalsharing process; how to set goals; how to communicate goalsharing; why renewal is essential; and how to minimize administration.
Estimating the cost of a compensation program enables us to make informed decisions about merit increase levels as well as when and how frequently increases will be granted. Planning and managing costs are important to striking a strategic balance developing a compensation program that helps our organization achieve its business objectives. This booklet details how to asses the effects these decisions have on total compensation cost and covers: general costing formula; focal-point; anniversary-date merit plans; determining increase percentages; compensation cost impact on benefits; budgeting; and strategic balance.
Statistically derived job-evaluation models can be used to construct a job-worth hierarchy that is easy to administer and cost-effective. This booklet outlines the necessary steps to using these powerful models.
Good job documentation greatly assists an organization's efforts to achieve efficiency and quality, and it facilitates the creation of an equitable job-worth hierarchy. This booklet describes 12 steps of conducting job and work analysis while incorporating workflow analysis techniques. Using helpful examples, questionnaires and great tips on how to write a job description, this booklet can help you translate your organization's strategic plan into specific roles and responsibilities.
If you're new to the compensation profession or need a refresher lesson on the fundamental aspects of base pay programs, this book provides the perfect starter tool. Readers gain a foundational understanding of the internal and external factors that influence the design, delivery and administration of base pay programs.
This comprehensive guidebook serves as a toolkit for designing and implementing a broad-based employee stock option plan from the ground up. It covers the history of stock options, pertinent terminology, building a business case, drawing up a plan document, communicating and administering the plan, and addressing potential problems. Colorful case studies, relevant forms and a glossary of terms augment the text.
A compensation system can be highly effective in influencing organizational behavior and goal attainment. This booklet presents commonly used methods for determining relative job worth while helping your organization accomplish its mission and strategic goals.
Executive Compensation bridges the gap between executive compensation theory and practice. This invaluable resource incorporates academic research into the effects and consequences of executive compensation programs.
FLSA Compliance illuminates the major challenges facing today's compensation professionals. It will help you to understand the dynamics of FairPay rules and their relationship with current and future evaluation of positions for exemption from overtime pay.
This book provides a comprehensive view of gainsharing, from its conceptual and technical issues to specific plan measures and components. No reader will finish this book without learning to understand and appreciate the level of commitment required to implement and maintain a winning gainsharing plan.
This book challenges conventional thinking and encourages compensation and human resource professionals to develop a proactive position about using total rewards to enhance organizational effectiveness and move the business forward.
This book clarifies under what conditions incentive programs will have positive consequences and how to articulate the design of these programs to achieve the desired result.
This book documents the importance of procedure in determining a job's worth and ensuring that information pertaining to the job is valid and accurate. The book contains chapters on regulatory issues, as well as communication, and an appendix that contains sample worksheets for point-factor job evaluation.
This booklet covers the following aspects of merit pay: determining what to reward; documenting performance standards; establishing a merit budget; setting merit pay policy; managing a merit pay plan; evaluating a merit pay plan.
Learn how job analysis, evaluation, benchmarks, data collection, simple formulas, market index, weighting and more can make sense amid all the clutter. Bring order and clarity to market blips, adjustments, turnover, compliance and communication. Complete with case studies and examples, this book is on its way to becoming the compensation professional's next best friend!
Using too much "artistic license" with market-pricing data analyses can leave the results open to challenge. Discover a practical way to compile data and help achieve external competitiveness for your organization with the six steps described in this booklet.
In the decade after World War II, jobs were defined by detailed activities; workers were expected to follow orders; supervisors had a limited span of control; work was closely supervised. Baby Boomers hadn't entered the employment ranks; women were limited to "women's work"; and the Civil Rights Act was a few years away. But in the past 20 years, knowledge workers have replaced manual workers, self-managed teams have replaced close supervision and focus has shifted to market values rather than internal job values. In this book, author Howard Risher, Ph.D., consolidates the body of knowledge needed to rethink a salary system in the 21st century, looking narrowly at the planning and modifying of salary programs for the benefit of HR professionals with little or no prior experience in redesigning salary programs.
In the third edition, Reading & Preparing Proxy Statements incorporates the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's interpretive guidance on the executive compensation disclosure rules through the summer of 2009, as well as the disclosure enhancements adopted by the SEC on Dec. 16, 2009. The guidance addresses a variety of substantive and technical issues.
This booklet focuses on how to design incentives for employees in work groups who are accountable for doing the business of their organizations on a daily basis. The step-by-step approach provides insight into the decisions required while developing group incentive programs and outlines eight key steps.
Learn more about what companies specific to your industry and your area are planning for stock-based compensation, variable pay and international remuneration from the world's largest and most comprehensive salary budget survey.
The 2006-07 Salary Budget Survey provides salary budget increase data for the United States and Canada. In its reader-friendly format, you can quickly view salary budget adjustments by region and industry for different level employees. All data is broken out into both the actual increases for the current year and the projected increases for the coming year.
This book provides salary budget increase data for the United States and Canada. In its reader-friendly format, you can quickly view salary budget adjustments by region and industry for different-level employees. All data is broken out into both the actual increases for the current year and the projected increases for the coming year.
This book provides salary budget increase data for the United States and Canada. In its reader-friendly format, you can quickly view salary budget adjustments by region and industry for different-level employees. All data is broken out into both the actual increases for the current year and the projected increases for the coming year.
Trust the answers from the most credible and longest-running survey of its kind for insight to how other companies are rewarding their talent. New this year, customize the results online to your region, industry, state and other ways with SBS Online. Also new, information on cost-containment strategies employed in the past 12 months -- hiring freezes, pay freezes, furloughs -- and how that affects salary increase budgets.
This book provides vital information that will enable readers and their companies to make better and more informed decisions with regard to participation in and use of salary surveys. The content is wide ranging with a wealth of references, and includes recent case history of salary surveys and antitrust.
This book is intended to educate HR generalists, compensation professionals, and consultants -- both internal and external -- who from time to time are asked to participate in the design and implementation of a sales compensation plan. Additionally, this book allows the HR generalist to have a ready resource available for members of the company's sales compensation plan design team -- both operating executives and staff managers.
Today's sales organizations are multifaceted and require multiple sales jobs with different responsibilities coupled with intricate forms of measurement and compensation. Accordingly, complex systems are required to help manage these organizations, and many companies struggle with the basic tenets of how to motivate and reward a sales organization.
Sales Compensation experts, Jerry Colletti, Mary Fiss, and Mark Davis have combined forces to create a book that applies appropriate techniques and formulas related to each factor of sales compensation (determining pay levels, pay mix, incentive design and calculating payouts) that is consistent with both best practices and generally accepted principles.
The sales compensation plan is one of the more powerful tools that top executives use to direct, motivate and reward the salesforce for its contribution to business success. Knowing when and how to align sales teams and compensation programs are key issues -- not only for sales, but for the overall company. And, because it is simply not practical or appropriate to use a single (or even a few) sales incentive plans across multiple divisions, geographies and sales roles, taking a global focus is an imperative for today's sales compensation professionals.
This easy-to-read survey e-book consists of special update findings from a follow-up December 2008 WorldatWork survey. Covering a broad spectrum of public and private organizations, the in-depth tables break down actual and anticipated pay program changes by major industry, company size, metropolitan areas and more.
This second edition of Stock Options and the New Rules of Corporate Accountability examines the hot-button issue of executive compensation and proposes new methodologies and techniques for better aligning stock options, performance rewards and accounting.
This book unravels the mystery of salary surveys -- piece-by-piece, step by step. It covers the whole process in a straightforward manner: from survey fundamentals (such as how to select benchmark positions and definitions of survey terms) to finding and selecting surveys, creating a customized survey, pricing key jobs and even antitrust implications.
This resource publication features article reprints from WorldatWorks respected publications -- workspan magazine and WorldatWork Journal -- from 1994 to 2002. It offers readers numerous resources on a variety of topics related to sales compensation.
This resource publication features article reprints from WorldatWork's respected publications -- workspan magazine and WorldatWork Journal -- from 1995 to 2000. It offers readers numerous resources on a variety of topics relating to variable pay.
Perfect for the compensation and benefits specialist who seeks a ready resource for their many technical needs, or for the HR generalist with varied responsibilities, the "WorldatWork Handbook of Compensation, Benefits, and Total Rewards" is a comprehensive tool for recruiting, rewarding and retaining talent in the 21st century. With its special focus on structuring and implementing a total rewards program, this is a fully modern guide to compensation.
Executive compensation issues have been top-of-mind in the business world and mainstream press. As the debate on the pay programs of top executives continues, we deliver a new desk reference focusing on the main components and issues involved in executive pay - especially from a design perspective.
This booklet reviews the fundamental uses of measurement: aligning the interests, needs and efforts of various constituencies within an organization; helping these constituencies adapt to shifting needs and priorities; and providing an index of how well individuals, employee groups and the organization as a whole is doing in relation to set standards or goals.
Variable pay tends to focus squarely on improving organizational and individual performance as well as the overall market competitiveness of pay. As interest in variable pay increases, so does the need to be able to design effective plans. Through this, organizations ensure they are gaining business value from the effort and dollars they dedicate.
Would your executive compensation plan hold up to today's unprecedented media and regulatory scrutiny? You'll be in a better position to answer "yes" after consulting this definitive list of more than 200 questions, developed by the world's largest association of compensation professionals.