The Compensation Handbook [Hardcover]

Lance Berger (Author), Dorothy Berger (Author)

Book Description

Series: Compensation Handbook | Publication Date: December 29, 1999

Straight answers to your compensation questions An A-to-Z guide to compensation strategy and design, Compensation Handbook, Fourth Edition, has been completely revised and updated to keep you on top of the important changes that have taken place in this area. Editors Lance A. Berger and Dorothy R. Berger have assembled articles by leading compensation practitioners to give you authoritative solutions to a wide range of specific compensation problems. This important new edition shares with you the best thinking on attracting and retaining outstanding employees in a tight market...executive compensation...computers and compensation...how to use a mix of compensation devices...and much, much more.

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From the Back Cover

The "Bible" of compensation--in a new revised edition. When compensation and human resources professionals need guidance, they turn to The Compensation Handbook. For almost 30 years, The Compensation Handbook has been recognized as the most authoritative reference in the field, providing simple, direct answers to every important problem in compensation. In the current, highly competitive market for employees, no book could be more timely than this Fourth Edition of The Compensation Handbook. Edited by experts Lance and Dorothy Berger, it features 75% completely new material showing you how to attract, retain, and motivate the key employees and executives your business needs. The Compensation Handbook provides: coherent strategies and well-orchestrated planning guidelines for all aspects of compensation; data and guidance from more than 50 top leaders in the field; up-to-date help with base compensation, variable compensation, executive compensation, performance and compensation, compensation and corporate culture, and international compensation; worksheets, checklists, evaluation forms, and other useful instruments; much more. The most informative and authoritative reference on compensation--period--The Handbook of Compensation belongs within arm's reach of any professional who works in the field.

About the Author

Lance A. Berger is CEO of Lance A. Berger & Associates, Ltd., a management consulting firm specializing in compensation and change management. A former general partner for the largest compensation practice worldwide at the Hay Group, he wrote and edited (with Milton Rock) The Compensation Handbook, Third Edition. He also wrote The Change Management Handbook: A Road Map to Corporate Transformation and Deengineering the Corporation: Leading Growth from Within. He has been a featured speaker at the United Nations, The Conference Board, American Management Association, and the American Compensation Association. Dorothy R. Berger is managing director of Haverford Business Press, a firm specializing in the development of business publications. She edited The Change Management Handbook, Deengineering the Corporation, and is the for The Change Manager newsletter.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 646 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill; 4 edition (December 29, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0071343091
• ISBN-13: 978-0071343091
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 7.2 x 2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,194,763 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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57 of 62 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Compensation Handbook, June 26, 2000

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Steven McGuire - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Compensation Handbook (Hardcover)

As a compensation consultant, I sought a comprehensive guide for all aspects of the field. The 4th edition of The Compensation Handbook provides simple and direct answers for every compensation problem. It is a virtual "who's who" of compensation professionals providing well-constructed, concise information on area of expertise. No matter what information I seek -- from base compensation, variable compensation, executive compensation, performance and compensation, compensation and corporate culture, or international compensation -- I can find pertinent, practical guidance in this one book. Compensation issues that are currently challenging every company - regardless of size, age, industry -- are especially well developed in The Compensation Handbook. The section on Corporate Culture containing chapters on "Culture and Compensation" and "Connecting Compensation, Behaviors, Culture, and Strategy to Win" by William M. Mercer consultants, "Rewarding Scarce Talent" by Patricia Zingheim, "Gaining a Competitive Edge by Improving the Return on Human Capital" by Peter LeBlanc, and "The Role of Work-Life Benefit in the Total Pay Strategy" covers issues that every compensation practitioner or human resources professional will grapple with in the forseeable future. Even the effect of technology and computers on compensation administration are handled in The Compensation Handbook. Information on global compensation strategies is relevant not only to practitioners by to anyone seeking employment on foreign soil or working for a foreign company. The Compensation Handbook is a winner.

25 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Compensation Handbook, June 27, 2000

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Steven McGuire - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Compensation Handbook (Hardcover)

As a compensation consultant, I sought a comprehensive guide for all aspects of the field. The 4th edition of The Compensation Handbook provides simple and direct answers for every compensation problem. It is a virtual "who's who" of compensation professionals providing well-constructed, concise information on their area of expertise. No matter what information I seek -- from base compensation, variable compensation, executive compensation, performance and compensation, compensation and corporate culture, or international compensation -- I can find pertinent, practical guidance in this one book. Compensation issues that are currently challenging every company - regardless of size, age, or industry -- are especially well developed in The Compensation Handbook. The section on Corporate Culture containing chapters on "Culture and Compensation" and "Connecting Compensation, Behaviors, Culture, and Strategy to Win" by William M. Mercer consultants, "Rewarding Scarce Talent" by Patricia Zingheim, "Gaining a Competitive Edge by Improving the Return on Human Capital" by Peter LeBlanc, and "The Role of Work-Life Benefits in the Total Pay Strategy" covers issues that every compensation practitioner or human resources professional will grapple with in the forseeable future. Even the effect of technology and computers on compensation administration are handled in The Compensation Handbook. Information on global compensation strategies is relevant not only to practitioners but to anyone seeking employment on foreign soil or working for a foreign company. The Compensation Handbook is a winner.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great Reference, April 24, 2007

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El Caballo - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Compensation Handbook (Hardcover)

I found this book to be an invaluable reference for my research in the area of compensation. It covers all of the main topics in compensation management with articles from the best minds in the field. The trend summary and chapter introductions provide an overview that is interesting and insightful. That kind of analysis is hard to find. The information is surprisingly up to date, since change is slow in this field.

The book is essential for compensation professionals.