The compensation handbook : a state-of-the-art guide to compensation strategy and design / [edited by] Lance A. Berger, Dorothy R. Berger.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I: Introduction -- The state of the compensation practice -- Using a total rewards strategy to achieve competitive advantage -- Aligning total compensation programs with organization values and strategy -- Winning compensation strategies for organizational sustainability -- Excelling as a compensation professional -- Emerging compensation issues -- Part II: Base salary -- Positioning salary structures within the total rewards context -- Selecting and developing a salary structure -- Marketing merit pay and bonuses matter -- The purpose and nature of job evaluation -- Optimizing the use of salary surveys -- rationale for an approaches of bench-marking -- Paying for skills, knowledge, and competencies -- Using non-monetary awards to support behaviors that drive business results -- Part III: Variable compensation -- Choosing the incentive compensation program that best promotes performance -- Designing and implementing effective variable pay programs -- aligning sales compensation plan design with talent retention strategy -- Developing and applying a return-on-investment methodology to drive sales force performance -- Creating a culture of collaboration, innovation, and performance though team-based incentives -- Revolutionizing workplace culture through Scanlon gain sharing -- Part IV: Executive compensation -- Formulating and implementing an executive compensation strategy -- Designing and executing long-term incentive plans -- Regulating executive compensation -- Formulating executive employment agreements -- Cracking the secret code of long-term incentives in private companies -- Part V: Compensation and the board -- The compensation committee and executive pay -- Dynamics of CEO pay-- Board compensation -- Structuring board and executive pay -- Compensation committee of the board -- Creating an effective CEO succession-planning process -- Part VI: Performance and compensation -- A framework for designing a performance-management process -- Choosing a performance-appraisal system -- Linking compensation to competitive business value -- Using financial rewards to drive productivity -- New developments and issues in pay performance -- Making calibration and integral part of a performance-appraisal system -- Guidelines for effective executive performance appraisals -- Part VII -- Talent management and compensation -- Employing novel ways to use compensation to win the talent wars -- Strengthening the link between compensation and return on investment -- Incorporating work/life effectiveness into a total rewards strategy -- A methodology for effectively communicating compensation programs -- Part VIII: Global compensation -- Critical expatriate compensation issues and practices -- Global local national compensation issues and practices -- Employing novel compensation approaches to compete for expatriate talent -- Part IX: A guide to realizing he value of big data -- Using workforce analytics to make effective compensation decisions in the age of big data -- Using big data to enhance the value of compensation programs -- Turning data into compensation information -- Exploring new technologies that enhance compensation programs.