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A great resource assisting HR Professionals with well-researched, up-to-date and in-depth information on programs and practices needed to lead superior organizational performance. |
| 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. |
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| Attraction & Retention: A Collection of Articles from WorldatWork |  While employers may be experiencing fewer attraction and retention troubles due to the most recent economic crisis, there is a strong business case for integrating rewards and talent management programs. Organizations that apply an integrated approach in this area and across all stages of the employment life cycle have an advantage in attracting, engaging and retaining the talent they need to succeed in their markets — and financially outperform their peers. |
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| Automating Sales Compensation |  Automating Sales Compensation," part of the How-To for HR Professionals line of books, is useful for anyone responsible for the success of a sales compensation program. And, because most companies don’t have just one person who has overall responsibility, this book is designed for everyone who participates in the process. |
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| 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. |
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| Communicating Total Rewards, Third Edition |  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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| Designing Management Incentive Plans |  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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| Global Rewards: A Collection of Articles from WorldatWork, 2nd ed. |  In this collection of articles from WorldatWork, thought leaders address topics ranging from rewarding expatriates to the role of global equity; from deciding whether to implement single, broad global policies or to "go local," with local policies at the local employer in the local language; from HR in emerging countries to the decision whether to outsource practices. Each topic addressed lends insights into the global economy and changing demographic landscape, as well as how to design rewards systems that align with organizational business strategies and visions. |
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| Handbook of Compensation & Benefits Formulas |  In the past three decades, the world of compensation and benefits has experienced a revolution. And, while the role of today's total rewards professionals has become more strategic and business oriented, some fundamentals of the job will always hold true. One such fundamental is math. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| Performance Management, A Collection of Articles from WorldatWork |  While employers may be experiencing fewer attraction and retention troubles due to the most recent economic crisis, there is a strong business case for integrating rewards and talent management programs. Organizations that apply an integrated approach in this area and across all stages of the employment life cycle have an advantage in attracting, engaging and retaining the talent they need to succeed in their markets – and financially outperform their peers. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| Total Rewards Communications |  A Collection of Articles from WorldatWork
The importance of effective communication between management and employees is not a new idea by any means. Yet, good communications strategies are often overlooked. Communication and education play a critical role in helping businesses maximize their total rewards package as a competitive advantage to attract and retain the best talent. |
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| 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. |
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| Understanding Executive Compensation |  Establishing a consistent and transparent connection between pay and value added is the main challenge facing boards and executive compensation professionals today. |
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| 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. |
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| Work-Life: Collection of Articles from WorldatWork |  In this collection of articles from WorldatWork, thought leaders provide ideas and concepts about how to effectively implement work-life initiatives, including programs that address telework, flexible scheduling, business continuity, wellness, dependent care and time off. Case studies, research and interviews with professionals in the field discuss the pressing issues facing both employers and employees, proving that creating a flexible work environment can be one of the best ways to increase employee satisfaction beyond simply issuing a bigger paycheck. |
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| 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. |
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| WorldatWork 2012-2013 Salary Budget Survey |  Stay Competitive. Attract and Retain Talent in Ever-Changing Market Conditions
The "WorldatWork 2012-2013 Salary Budget Survey" is an essential instrument in your compensation planning. The 39th annual edition, this is the longest-running survey of its kind. |
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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.
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.
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.
This resource publication features the best-of article reprints from WorldatWork's respected publications -- workspan magazine and WorldatWork Journal.
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.
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