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2005-06 Salary Budget Survey
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 worlds largest and most comprehensive salary budget survey.

2006-07 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.

2007-08 Salary Budget Survey
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.

2008-09 Salary Budget Survey
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.

2009-10 Salary Budget Survey
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.

Administering Stock Option Plans
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.

Battling to Be the Best: Why Companies Compete for Best-Place-to-Work Lists
This book takes readers through the ins-and-outs of best-place-to work lists. Dozens of case study examples provide insights into what winning - and hopeful - companies are doing to be recognized as the best of the best, and what every organization should look at before embarking on this mammoth adventure.

Benefits Compliance: An Overview for the HR Professional
Benefits Compliance helps explain and summarize the most significant federal laws that govern the design, maintenance and operation of employee benefits plans.

Building Pay Structures
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.

Calculate This! Formula Book
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.

Cash Bonuses: Four Ways to Attract, Retain and Motivate Employees, Second Edition
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.

Champion of Change: How to Build Support for HR Initiatives and New Programs - Second Edition
Today's companies need HR leadership on some very difficult and emotionally charged issues. Being able to overcome resistance and achieve buy-in from those who are affected by the changing workplace landscape is now, more than ever, an essential skill for HR success.

Communicating Benefits Programs
This booklet covers the following aspects of benefits communication: accomplishing communication objectives; components of communication; the communication plan; and changing benefits technology.

Communicating Compensation Programs
This booklet presents a systematic approach for communicating compensation programs effectively to motivate employees and increase profitability. Six steps are described: defining the objectives; obtaining information; strategy development; selecting media; conducting sessions; and evaluating the program.

Communicating Total Rewards
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.

Compensating Globally Mobile Employees
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.

Compensating North American Expatriates
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.

Compensation Basics for HR Generalists
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.

Culture at Work: Building a Robust Work Environment to Help Drive Your Total Rewards Strategy
This book serves as a template for assessing and managing an organizational culture. Of course, there is no one-size-fits-all approach to the subject. But the tools provided in the book make it easy to understand not only what defines culture and how it works, but also ways you can influence it and make it work to your company's advantage.

Designing & Conducting a Salary Survey
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.

Designing Employee Health Management Programs
Given the ongoing deterioration of America's health in the areas of obesity, hypertension, abnormal lipids/cholesterol and insulin resistance, promoting employee health management (EHM) is the best long-term solution to containing ever-rising medical costs. Healthy employees and their healthy families are likely to incur lower medical costs and be more productive. EHM incentives have shown to be effective in making a good cost-control strategy even better.

Designing Employee Recognition Programs
In this How-To for the HR Professional, author Marc Drizin makes the case for employee rewards and recognition, helps readers understand how to align a recognition program to the organizational mission, vision and values, and focuses on the design and administration of a well-conceived program.

Designing Sales 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.

Designing a Goalsharing Program
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.

Determining Compensation Costs
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.

Developing International Talent Management Strategies
As businesses continue expanding internationally, and as geographic and social boundaries blur, the global economy continually provides both challenges and opportunities for employers and employees both at home and abroad. Countries and governments operate autonomously, and differences persist in legal and social frameworks, working practices, corporate governance and management practices. Labor laws, tax regimes, social security structures, along with compensation and benefits structures all remain unique to each country.

Developing Statistical Job-Evaluation Models
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.

Developing a Strategic Benefits Program
This book outlines how to develop a benefits strategy that aligns with overall corporate goals, objectives and structure. Plus this book teaches how to use this strategy as a roadmap for determining which benefits programs will best suit their organization.

Documenting Job Content
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.

ERISA Basics
While employee benefits are an indispensable element of an employer's total rewards package, employers face myriad complex administrative tasks upon establishing an employee pension or welfare benefit plan. In general terms, this book is designed to familiarize employers with the responsibilities and liabilities of plan fiduciaries under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA).

Elements of Base Pay Administration
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.

Employee Benefits Basics
The world of employee benefits is dramatically different today than it was just five years ago -- let alone 15 or 20 years ago. What is not new is the fact that employees need benefits, and companies need employees.

Employee Engagement Fundamentals: A Guide for Managers and Supervisors
Designed to help managers and supervisors with strategies and approaches to engage employees, this book discusses 10 types of employees at various levels in the employment lifecycle. With this knowledge, readers will enhance their awareness of, interest in, and action toward creating and sustaining organizations that find, keep and engage the best talent.

Equity at Work: Constructing a Broad-Based Stock Option Plan
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.

Evaluating Job Content
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.

Excellence at Work: The Six Keys to Inspire Passion in the Workplace
This book presents six simple, yet powerful principles for creating a robust work environment in which employees communicate impeccably, proactively solve problems, execute on priorities, bring out the best in each other, reignite their passion and have fun.

Executive Compensation: An Introduction to Practice & Theory
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: An Overview for the HR Professional
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.

FMLA Compliance
The Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 (FMLA) has been in place for more than 15 years and is the focal point of many lawsuits. This compliance series book is intended to help total rewards professionals understand the provisions of FMLA, as well as provide insightful and practical information on the effect this legislation has on the workplace. The second edition includes the National Defense Authorization Act FY2010 revisions to the definitions of "qualifying exigency leave" and "military caregiver leave" -- the two new leave categories established in 2008. In addition, the definition of "serious injury or illness" was modified.

Financial Overview for the HR Business Partner
Companies today are under constant pressure to cut costs and gain competitive advantage by using best-practice models to ensure survival. Human resources must prove that the activities it performs are both in line with business objectives and are financially sound. When asked to defend a current total rewards program or redesign an organization's total rewards system, it is important to present and justify these recommendations in definable business terms. HR professionals can be more effective in their positions and more successful in helping their organizations continue to grow profitable by understanding how each senior manager's organization makes money and what is needed to sustain business both in good and bad economic climates.

Gainsharing: A Team-Based Approach to Driving Organizational Change
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.

Global Rewards: A Collection of Articles from WorldatWork
This sole purpose of this book is to help total rewards professionals find solutions to complex international issues. It's a compilation of thoughts and data to enrich your understanding of all things global: strategic, technical and tactical.

Guide to Qualified Retirement Plans
This book provides a basic understanding of the different types of retirement programs, along with the advantages and disadvantages of each, so that the practitioner can evaluate which types might be appropriate for meeting the needs of their workforce while still meeting employer business objectives.

High-Performance Pay: Fast Forward to Business Success
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.

Incentive Pay: Creating a Competitive Advantage
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.

Innovative Excellence: Leading Ideas in Work-Life Programs
This book provides case studies of the majority of the 2008 Work-Life Innovative Excellence Award applicants, including the three organizations that received the Work-Life Innovative Excellence Award. It has been said that good ideas have no shelf life. For the organizations that have yet to consider these work-life programs, they may literally bring revolutionary change.

Job Evaluation: Methods to the Process
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.

Linking Pay to Performance
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.

Making the Case for Consumer-Driven Health Plans
The introduction of consumer-driven health plan (CDHP) options into employer-sponsored benefits plans has become more attractive across organizations. Many companies are finding this option to be a viable choice as part of the total rewards package due to increasing difficulty in offering competitive health plans to employees at affordable premiums while also maintaining good health-care coverage.

Managing Employee Health Care Costs: A Collection of Articles from WorldatWork
Through a compilation of articles, this book showcases numerous options to consider in your benefit plan design to help control employee health care costs. This convenient one-source guide provides new ideas from practitioners in the field on how they are managing the escalating employee health care costs.

Managing Individual Performance
Employers often don't communicate how an individual's performance and contributions have an impact on the overall organizational success. This often results not only in unproductive and unsatisfied employees, but also in organizations falling short of attaining success. This booklet shows how to develop a performance management system that goes beyond traditional objectives (i.e., documenting job responsibilities, defining expectations, and providing opportunities for supervisors and employees to communicate) to align individual performance with an organization's mission, vision and objectives. It ensures that employees understand how their behaviors effect the attainment of organizational success.

Market Pricing: Methods to the Madness
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!

Mastering Market Data
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.

Maximizing the Impact of Recognition
This booklet provides practitioners and line managers with a framework and process to use in designing effective recognition programs. Topics include: the role of employee recognition in overall reward strategy; aligning employee recognition with business strategy; designing an effective approach to recognition; administering recognition programs; resolving problems; and maintaining the impact of employee recognition.

Mergers & Acquisitions
This book explains the way to proceed through the due diligence and how to act as an internal consultant to senior management. A discussion of legislated risk factors provides invaluable insights into common merger and aquisition considerations, and in-depth checklists shed light on the right questions to ask to stave off potential integration issues.

Mergers & Acquisitions: A Checklist for Total Rewards Professionals
This book provides HR professionals a topical resource to follow during a corporate restructuring. It was designed to give those in total rewards a checklist specifically targeted at activities HR professionals need to make sure they conduct before, during and after a merger or acquisition.

Paid Time Off Banks: Program Design and Implementation
Paid time off (PTO) banks help companies increase productivity and lower costs by reducing unscheduled absences. This book explains in simple, straight-forward language how to assess, cost justify, design, communicate, and implement a cost effective PTO program for your company.

Paying & Managing Absences
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has reported that pay for time-not-worked benefits are the most expensive benefits any employer faces. Many companies ask: How does one control benefit costs and have an attractive package for recruiting and retaining star employees? This booklet offers an overview of two contemporary approaches that have been found to help companies control and manage pay for time-not-worked benefits, paid time off banks and the no-fault absentee control system.

Planning Wage and Salary Programs
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.

Providing Financial Education and Advice
This book explores the differences between financial and investment education and advice, helping readers to understand the critical points employees need to know while being conscious of fiduciary liability issues. Along with a discussion of statutory and regulatory considerations, readers will learn that making employees better educated financial consumers is good business.

Reading & Preparing Proxy Statements: A Guide to the SEC Disclosure Rules for Executive and Director Compensation
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.

Recognition at Work: Crafting a Value-Added Rewards Program, Second Edition
This book is essential to any HR professional charged with designing and implementing a recognition program. Many checklists, evaluation tools and alternatives are provided, allowing any organization, large or small, to customize its approach to employee recognition.

Retirement Benefits
Recent tumultuous events in the U.S. Economy have wreaked havoc on capital markets and investment values, leaving many financial futures vulnerable. This book, assembled by WorldatWork, helps rewards professionals get a big-picture view of retirement. This compilation of more than 15 articles from top authors in the field of benefits aids readers in gaining a better understanding of today's complex retirement-related issues, and provides ideas on how to help employees get the most out of company-sponsored plans.

Rewarding Group Performance
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.

Salary Surveys and Antitrust
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.

Sales Compensation Essentials: A Field Guide for the HR Professional
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.

Sales Compensation Made Simple
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 Math
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.

Sales Compensation: A Collection of Articles from WorldatWork
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.

Self-Insuring Benefits Programs
The struggle with employer-sponsored benefits plans isn't new. Employees want high levels of coverage without high premiums or co-payments. Employers want costs managed without compromising quality of service. One way to meet all of these goals is to self-insure benefits programs and transfer the risk away from a third party to the organization and its employees.

Special Update: 2002-03 Total Salary Increase Budget Survey

Special Update: 2004-05 Salary Budget Survey
This easy-to-read survey e-brief consists of special update findings from a follow-up October 2004 WorldatWork survey.

Special Update: 2005-06 Salary Budget Survey
This easy-to-read survey e-brief consists of special update findings from a follow-up October 2005 WorldatWork survey.

Special Update: 2008-09 Salary Budget Survey
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.

Stock Option Alternatives, Second Edition: FASB and AJCA Update
This second edition, which includes critical legislative updates, is designed for anyone attempting to maximize their employer's ability to attract, motivate and retain key employees. It provides a specific detailed overview of long-term incentive alternatives to non-fair market value options.

Stock Options and the New Rules of Corporate Accountability: Measuring, Managing and Rewarding Executive Performance, Second Edition
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.

Strategic Outsourcing
Several challenges face HR professionals as they select and manage third-party providers, with many stemming from lack of communication with the provider and lack of clarity around expectations. Focusing specifically on HR outsourcing (which is much different than outsourcing a commodity), this book provides a holistic approach to the overall process and provides a basic roadmap through provider selection, contract negotiation, implementation and ongoing relationship management process.

Survey Handbook & Directory: A Guide to Finding and Using Salary Surveys
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.

Telework: A Critical Component of Your Total Rewards Strategy
Brought up-to-date from the original e-work guide published by ITAC in 2000, this book helps organizations to successfully implement or expand telework programs using practical steps and sample templates.

The Best of Communicating Total Rewards: A Collection of Articles from WorldatWork
This resource publication features the best-of article reprints from WorldatWork's respected publications -- workspan magazine and WorldatWork Journal.

The Best of Global HR: Five Years of International Articles from WorldatWork
This resource publication features article reprints from WorldatWork's respected publications, workspan magazine and WorldatWork Journal, from 1995-2000. It offers readers numerous resources on a variety of international HR topics, as well as selected references.

The Best of Performance Management: A Collection of Articles from WorldatWork
This resource publication features article reprints from WorldatWork's respected publications -- workspan magazine and WorldatWork Journal. It offers readers numerous resources on a variety of topics related to performance management, including discussion on system design, evaluation and rewards.

The Best of Sales Compensation: A Collection of Articles from WorldatWork
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.

The Best of Variable Pay: Incentives, Recognition and Rewards
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.

The Employee's Guide to Becoming a Smart Benefits Shopper
This book is designed to provide your employees with a roadmap that covers benefits basics with helpful tips, analogies, guidelines and more. It speaks in plain, everyday language to increase their benefits know-how and motivate them to think about their health and financial well-being.

The Power of Restricted Stock, Second Edition: FASB and AJCA Update
This book details the various tax, accounting and legal issues involved with one of the most proven compensation vehicles in today's complex corporate environment.

The WorldatWork Handbook of Compensation, Benefits and Total Rewards
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.

Understanding Development and Career Opportunities
As merit budgets become tighter and health-care costs continue to escalate, organizations are looking for other means to attract, motivate and retain key talent. In this book, readers learn about programs relating to development and career opportunities, and why they are important. This book describes the varieties of development and career opportunities available to organizations and how they can be used to provide benefits for both employees and their employers.

Understanding Executive 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.

Understanding Performance Measures
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: A Collection of Articles from WorldatWork
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.

Work-Life Effectiveness: Bottom-Line Strategies for Today's Workplace
With her latest book, nationally known work-life expert Karol Rose has responded directly to the growing demand and challenges of employer-sponsored, work-life initiatives. This book updates and illuminates the concepts presented in Rose's previous effort, "Work-Life Effectiveness: Programs, Policies and Practices," a book often referred to as the work-life profession's "bible." This title book culls and assimilates mountains of information and years of research to build a strong business case for designing, implementing and enhancing work-life programs.

Workforce Engagement: Strategies to Attract, Motivate and Retain Talent
In this second edition of Workforce Engagement: Strategies to Attract, Motivate and Retain Talent, authors Stephen Hundley, Frederic Jacobs and Marc Drizin provide readers with enhanced concepts, updated research data and new case studies to enhance understanding of workforce engagement: what it means, why it is important and how it affects individuals and, ultimately, organizations. This book also provides a framework for understanding workforce engagement as part of a broader total rewards strategy.

Workplace Flexibility: Innovation in Action
This book is designed to provide readers with a rich collection of the resources contributed by participants at a working retreat on workplace flexibility. It offers testimonies to alleviate organizational concerns, gives facts to counter common but erroneous myths, and presents options for introducing organizational skills that are needed to create a fluid, flexible work environment that delivers the agility required to survive in today's fast-changing economy.

WorldatWork 2010-2011 Salary Budget Survey
Stay Competitive. Attract and Retain Talent in Ever-Changing Market Conditions
The 37th annual WorldatWork Salary Budget Survey is an essential instrument in your compensation planning and the longest-running survey of its kind.

WorldatWork Executive Rewards Questionary: Optimize Executive Compensation Design
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.