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Armstrong's handbook of reward management practice : improving performance through reward / Michael Armstrong.

By: Armstrong, Michael, 1928-.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: London ; Philadelphia : Kogan Page, 2010Edition: 3rd ed.Description: viii, 472 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 9780749455347; 0749455349.Other title: Handbook of reward management practice.Subject(s): Incentives in industry | Employee motivation | Compensation managementDDC classification: 658.3142
Contents:
Introduction -- Part I: Essentials of reward management -- An overview of reward management -- The reward system -- Total rewards -- Strategic reward -- International reward -- Part II: Performance and reward -- Performance management and reward -- Engagement and reward -- Financial rewards -- Non-financial rewards -- Contingent pay schemes -- Bonus schemes -- Team pay -- Rewarding for business performance -- Recognition schemes -- Part III: Valuing and grading jobs -- Pay levels -- Job evaluation schemes -- Equal pay -- Market rate analysis -- Grade and pay structures -- Part IV: Rewarding special groups -- Rewarding directors and senior executives -- Rewarding sales and customer service staff -- Rewarding knowledge workers -- Rewarding manual workers -- Part V: Employee benefit and pension schemes -- Employee benefits -- Flexible benefits -- Pension schemes -- Part VI: The practice of reward management -- Developing reward systems -- Managing reward systems -- Evaluating reward management -- Responsibility for reward.
Summary: This is a practical handbook designed to provide guidance on the approaches that can be adopted in developing and managing employee reward stategies, policies and processes.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Armstrong's Handbook of Reward Management Practice is the definitive guide to understanding, developing and implementing effective reward. It is aimed at both HR practitioners, involved in employee reward, as well as students, who need to understand the importance of reward and how it can be successfully applied across organizations. The book is closely aligned to the CIPD's new standard in reward management and is supported by online resources for both lecturers and students. This new edition contains new research conducted by E-Reward, as well as brand new case studies of international companies, who are effectively using reward to improve performance. It includes practical guidance on designing reward for all levels of employee as well as for teams and the organization

Rev. ed. of: A handbook of employee reward management and practice. 2nd ed. 2007.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Part I: Essentials of reward management -- An overview of reward management -- The reward system -- Total rewards -- Strategic reward -- International reward -- Part II: Performance and reward -- Performance management and reward -- Engagement and reward -- Financial rewards -- Non-financial rewards -- Contingent pay schemes -- Bonus schemes -- Team pay -- Rewarding for business performance -- Recognition schemes -- Part III: Valuing and grading jobs -- Pay levels -- Job evaluation schemes -- Equal pay -- Market rate analysis -- Grade and pay structures -- Part IV: Rewarding special groups -- Rewarding directors and senior executives -- Rewarding sales and customer service staff -- Rewarding knowledge workers -- Rewarding manual workers -- Part V: Employee benefit and pension schemes -- Employee benefits -- Flexible benefits -- Pension schemes -- Part VI: The practice of reward management -- Developing reward systems -- Managing reward systems -- Evaluating reward management -- Responsibility for reward.

This is a practical handbook designed to provide guidance on the approaches that can be adopted in developing and managing employee reward stategies, policies and processes.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Part I Essentials of reward management
  • 1 An overview of reward management
  • 2 The reward system
  • 3 Total rewards
  • 4 Strategic reward
  • 5 International reward
  • P rt II Performance and reward
  • 6 Performance management and reward
  • 7 Engagement and reward
  • 8 Financial rewards
  • 9 Non-financial rewards
  • 10 Contingent pay schemes
  • 11 Bonus schemes
  • 12 Team pay
  • 13 Rewarding for business performance
  • 14 Recognition schemes
  • Part III Valuing and grading jobs
  • 15 Pay levels
  • 16 Job evaluation schemes
  • 17 Equal pay
  • 18 Market rate analysis
  • 19 Grade and pay structures
  • Part IV Rewarding special groups
  • 20 Rewarding directors and senior executives
  • 21 Rewarding sales and customer service staff
  • 22 Rewarding knowledge workers
  • 23 Rewarding manual workers
  • Part V Employee benefit and pension schemes
  • 24 Employee benefits
  • 25 Flexible benefits
  • 26 Pension schemes
  • Part VI The practice of reward management
  • 27 Developing reward systems
  • 28 Managing reward systems
  • 29 Evaluating reward management
  • 30 Responsibility for reward
  • Appendix A Reward attitude survey
  • Appendix B Engagement survey

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Michael Armstrong is a former Chief Examiner of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, joint managing partner of e-reward and an independent management consultant. He has sold over 500,000 books on the subject of HRM, including the best-selling Armstrong's Handbook of Human Resource Management Practice (published with Kogan Page).