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Record Nr.

UNINA9910154774503321

Autore

Martocchio Joseph J.

Titolo

Strategic compensation : a human resources management approach / / Joseph J. Martocchio

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boston : , : Pearson, , [2015]

©2015

ISBN

1-292-07594-5

Edizione

[Eighth, global edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (408 pages) : illustrations (some color)

Collana

Always learning

Disciplina

658.322

Soggetti

Compensation management

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Part I Setting the Stage for Strategic Compensation -- Chapter 1 Strategic Compensation -- A Component of Human Resource Systems -- Exploring and Defining the Compensation Context -- What Is Compensation? -- Core Compensation -- Employee Benefits -- A Historical Perspective on Compensation: The Road Toward Strategic Compensation -- Strategic Versus Tactical Decisions -- Competitive Strategy Choices -- Tactical Decisions that Support the Firm's Strategy -- Compensation Professionals' Goals -- How HR Professionals Fit into the Corporate Hierarchy -- How the Compensation Function Fits into HR Departments -- The Compensation Department's Main Goals -- Stakeholders of the Compensation System -- Employees -- Line Managers -- Executives -- Unions -- U.S. Government -- COMPENSATION IN ACTION -- Summary -- Key Terms -- Discussion Questions -- CASE: Competitive Strategy at Sportsman Shoes -- Endnotes -- Chapter 2 Contextual Influences on Compensation Practice -- Employment Laws that Influence Compensation Tactics -- Income Continuity, Safety, and Work Hours -- Pay Discrimination -- Civil Rights Act of 1964 -- Accommodating Disabilities and Family Needs -- Prevailing Wage Laws -- Laws that Guide Discretionary Employee Benefits -- Internal Revenue Code -- Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) -- Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 (COBRA) -- Continuation of Coverage under COBRA -- Health Insurance Portability



and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) -- Pension Protection Act of 2006 -- Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (PPACA) -- Contextual Influences on the Federal Government as an Employer -- Labor Unions as Contextual Influences -- Market Influences -- COMPENSATION IN ACTION -- Summary -- Key Terms -- Discussion Questions -- CASE: Exempt or Nonexempt?.

Endnotes -- Part II Bases for Pay -- Chapter 3 Traditional Bases for Pay -- Seniority and Merit -- Seniority and Longevity Pay -- Historical Overview -- Who Participates? -- Effectiveness of Seniority Pay Systems -- Design of Seniority Pay and Longevity Pay Plans -- Advantages of Seniority Pay -- Fitting Seniority Pay with Competitive Strategies -- Merit Pay -- Who Participates? -- Exploring the Elements of Merit Pay -- Performance Appraisal -- Types of Performance Appraisal Plans -- Exploring the Performance Appraisal Process -- Strengthening The Pay-For-Performance Link -- Link Performance Appraisals to Business Goals -- Analyze Jobs -- Communicate -- Establish Effective Appraisals -- Empower Employees -- Differentiate among Performers -- Possible Limitations of Merit Pay Programs -- Failure to Differentiate among Performers -- Poor Performance Measures -- Supervisors' Biased Ratings of Employee Job Performance -- Lack of Open Communication between Management and Employees -- Undesirable Social Structures -- Factors Other than Merit -- Undesirable Competition -- Little Motivational Value -- COMPENSATION IN ACTION -- Summary -- Key Terms -- Discussion Questions -- CASE: Appraising Performance at Precision -- Endnotes -- Chapter 4 Incentive Pay -- Exploring Incentive Pay -- Contrasting Incentive Pay with Traditional Pay -- Individual Incentives -- Defining Individual Incentives -- Types of Individual Incentive Plans -- Advantages of Individual Incentive Pay Programs -- Disadvantages of Individual Incentive Pay Programs -- Group Incentives -- Defining Group Incentives -- Types of Group Incentive Plans -- Advantages of Group Incentives -- Disadvantages of Group Incentives -- Companywide Incentives -- Defining Companywide Incentives -- Types of Companywide Incentive Plans -- Designing Incentive Pay Programs -- Group versus Individual Incentives.

Level of Risk -- Complementing or Replacing Base Pay -- Performance Criteria -- Time Horizon: Short Term versus Long Term -- COMPENSATION IN ACTION -- Summary -- Key Terms -- Discussion Questions -- CASE: Individual or Team Reward? -- Endnotes -- Chapter 5 Person-Focused Pay -- Defining Person-Focused Pay: Competency-Based, Pay-for-Knowledge, and Skill-Based Pay -- What Is a "Competency"? -- Usage of Person-Focused Pay Programs -- Reasons to Adopt Person-Focused Pay Programs -- Technological Innovation -- Increased Global Competition -- Varieties of Person-Focused Pay Programs -- Contrasting Person-Focused Pay With Job-Based Pay -- Advantages of Person-focused Pay Programs -- Advantages to Employees -- Advantages to Employers -- Disadvantages of Person-focused Pay Programs -- COMPENSATION IN ACTION -- Summary -- Key Terms -- Discussion Questions -- CASE: Person-Focused Pay at Mitron Computers -- Endnotes -- Part III Designing Compensation Systems -- Chapter 6 Building Internally Consistent Compensation Systems -- Internal Consistency -- Job Analysis -- Steps in the Job Analysis Process -- Legal Considerations for Job Analysis -- Job Analysis Techniques -- U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Information Network (O*NET) -- Job Evaluation -- Compensable Factors -- The Job Evaluation Process -- Job Evaluation Techniques -- The Point Method -- Alternative Job-Content Evaluation Approaches -- Alternatives to Job Evaluation -- Internally Consistent Compensation



Systems and Competitive Strategy -- COMPENSATION IN ACTION -- Summary -- Key Terms -- Discussion Questions -- CASE: Internal Consistency at Customers First -- Endnotes -- Chapter 7 Building Market-Competitive Compensation Systems -- Market-Competitive Pay Systems: The Basic Building Blocks -- Compensation Surveys -- Preliminary Considerations -- Using Published Compensation Survey Data.

Compensation Surveys: Strategic Considerations -- Compensation Survey Data -- Updating the Survey Data -- Integrating Internal Job Structures with External Market Pay Rates -- Compensation Policies and Strategic Mandates -- Pay Level Policies -- Pay Mix Policies -- COMPENSATION IN ACTION -- Summary -- Key Terms -- Discussion Questions -- CASE: Nutriment's New Hires -- Endnotes -- Chapter 8 Building Pay Structures that Recognize Employee Contributions -- Constructing a Pay Structure -- Step 1: Deciding on the Number of Pay Structures -- Step 2: Determining a Market Pay Line -- Step 3: Defining Pay Grades -- Step 4: Calculating Pay Ranges for Each Pay Grade -- Step 5: Evaluating the Results -- Designing Merit Pay Systems -- Merit Increase Amounts -- Timing -- Recurring versus Nonrecurring Merit Pay Increases -- Present Level of Base Pay -- Rewarding Performance: The Merit Pay Grid -- Merit Pay Increase Budgets -- Designing Sales Incentive Compensation Plans -- Alternative Sales Compensation Plans -- Sales Compensation Plans and Competitive Strategy -- Determining Fixed Pay and the Compensation Mix -- Designing Person-focused Programs -- Establishing Skill Blocks -- Transition Matters -- Training and Certification -- Pay Structure Variations -- Broadbanding -- Two-Tier Pay Structures -- COMPENSATION IN ACTION -- Summary -- Key Terms -- Discussion Questions -- CASE: A New Sales Representative -- Endnotes -- Part IV Employee Benefits -- Chapter 9 Discretionary Benefits -- An Overview of Discretionary Benefits -- Components of Discretionary Benefits -- Protection Programs -- Paid Time Off -- Services -- The benefits and costs of Discretionary Benefits -- COMPENSATION IN ACTION -- Summary -- Key Terms -- Discussion Questions -- CASE: Time Off at Superior Software Services -- Endnotes.

Chapter 10 Employer-Sponsored Retirement Plans and Health Insurance Programs -- Exploring Retirement Plans -- Origins of Employer-Sponsored Retirement Benefits -- Trends in Retirement Plan Coverage and Costs -- Qualified Plans -- Minimum Standards for Qualified Plans -- Defined Benefit Plans -- Minimum Funding Standards -- Benefit Limits and Tax Deductions -- Defined Contribution Plans -- Individual Accounts -- Investments of Contributions -- Employee Participation in Investments -- Minimum Funding Standards -- Contribution Limits and Tax Deductions -- Types of Defined Contribution Plans -- Section 401(k) Plans -- Profit Sharing Plans -- Stock Bonus Plans -- Employee Stock Ownership Plans -- Hybrid Plans: Cash Balance Plans -- Defining and Exploring Health Insurance Programs -- Origins of Health Insurance Benefits -- Health Insurance Coverage and Costs -- Fee-for-Service Plans -- Features of Fee-for-Service Plans -- Managed Care Plans -- Health Maintenance Organizations -- Features of Health Maintenance Organizations -- Preferred Provider Organizations -- Features of Preferred Provider Organizations -- Deductibles -- Coinsurance -- Point-of-Service Plans -- Specialized Insurance Benefits -- Prescription Drug Plans -- Mental Health and Substance Abuse -- Features of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Plans -- Consumer-Driven Health Care -- COMPENSATION IN ACTION -- Summary -- Key Terms -- Discussion Questions -- CASE: A Health Savings Account at Frontline PR -- Endnotes -- Chapter 11 Legally Required Benefits -- An Overview of Legally Required Benefits -- Components of Legally



Required Benefits -- Social Security Act of 1935 -- State Compulsory Disability Laws (Workers' Compensation) -- Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 -- The benefits and costs of Legally Required Benefits -- Designing and Planning The Benefits Program.

Determining Who Receives Coverage.

Sommario/riassunto

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