The Reward Plan Advantage: A Manager's Guide to Improving Business Performance Through People (Jossey-Bass Business & Management) [Paperback]

Jerry L. McAdams (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 26, 1996 | Series: Jossey-Bass Business & Management

Companies are finally discovering that their employees aren't just a cost of doing business, but their most valuable asset. The Reward Plan Advantage presents a model for designing performance reward systems that encourage information sharing, feedback, and employee involvement for improved individual performance and organizational success.

The Reward Plan Advantage provides the tools to help you:


* Identify objectives and measurements
* Assess your current situation
* Create recognition plans
* Determine group and project team incentive plans
* Select the types of rewards
* Implement your reward and recognition plan


The Reward Plan Advantage is filled with numerous charts, graphs, surveys, checklists, and other practical tools to create a reward and recognition system and group incentive plan.

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Consultant, author and speaker Jerry McAdams delivers a step-by-step guide for turning a company's best asset — its employees — into a competitive advantage. Writing from real-world experience, he demonstrates how reward plan investments can help attract and retain the best people, and directly influence virtually every strategic objective of an organization — including profits, productivity, customer satisfaction, and cost reduction — to give any company a significant return on its investment. A clear, engaging book that will help managers at every level discover the astonishing power of people working together toward common goals.

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Consultant, author and speaker Jerry McAdams delivers a step-by-step guide for turning a company's best asset — its employees — into a competitive advantage. Writing from real-world experience, he demonstrates how reward plan investments can help attract and retain the best people, and directly influence virtually every strategic objective of an organization — including profits, productivity, customer satisfaction, and cost reduction — to give any company a significant return on its investment. A clear, engaging book that will help managers at every level discover the astonishing power of people working together toward common goals.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 332 pages
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass; 1st edition (April 26, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0787902322
• ISBN-13: 978-0787902322
• Product Dimensions: 9.6 x 7.3 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,645,987 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars The Best Compensation Book In Ten Years, October 7, 2004

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This review is from: The Reward Plan Advantage: A Manager's Guide to Improving Business Performance Through People (Jossey-Bass Business & Management) (Paperback)

I've assigned this book to my graduate students in Compensation Administration because it's the best of its kind.

I've assigned a second book, though, because Jerry McAdams' scope of work did not include as thorough a treatment of the mechanics of compensation. For that, my students read Richard Henderson's "Compensation Administratin."

If you work in Compensation today, though, and have not read this book, you're really missing out. Its straightforward approach is commendable, and the storytelling (OK, call them "case studies" for more dignity) is outstanding. Rewards are the way to unlock an organization's true potential, and Jerry will tell you how to do it.

Note to Jerry McAdams, though: the book will soon be ten years old...when's the next one???