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Description: Managing Compensation (and Understanding It Too) by Donald L. Caruth, Gail D. Handlogten Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Hardcover Condition Brand New Description This text is a guide to how people are compensated for their efforts in all types of organizations. It covers such topics as job evaluation, job pricing, employee benefit programmes, pay for performance, and the compensation of executives, sales personnel and international employees. Publisher Description This text is a lively, well-written, and carefully illustrated guide to the mysteries and mystique of how people are compensated for their efforts in all types of organizations. With clear discussions of what works, what doesnt, and why, this intensely practical handbook it covers such topics as job evaluation; job pricing; employee benefit programs; pay for performance; and the compensation of executives, sales personnel, and international employees. Executives and managers with no special training in pay determination and management will find it an easily accessible handbook that not only makes clear how compensation systems are conceived and developed but most importantly, how they are implemented and administrated. Its logical presentation and full coverage makes the book valuable as a text for upper-level college students as well as a solid instructional resource for teachers.The authors open with an overview of compensation and its role in organizations and then move to the legal environment in which compensation is embedded and the laws that govern it. They describe current and traditional views of motivation and elucidate the importance of job analysis and its end products--job description and job specification. The role of compensation surveys and their use in assigning monetary rates to jobs are discussed. A topic of special interest to executives in New Economy organizations will be the purpose and importance of benefits, particularly indirect monetary compensation, stock options, and other pay for performance incentives. Caruth and Handlogten address the challange of compensating teams and pay special attention to the, often unique, problem of compensating uppermost management, sales people, and employees abroad. The text concludes with practical suggestions for the on-going maintenance and management of compensation systems and how to adapt them to changing organizational circumstances. Author Biography DONALD L. CARUTH holds a doctorate degree in management and has consulted on human resource matters, particularly pay and other forms of compensation, for more than 30 years. He is also Professor of Management at Amberton University, author of numerous books and articles, and co-author of Staffing the Contemporary Organization (Quorum, 1997).GAIL D. HANDLOGTEN is a human resource management consultant. With an advanced degree in human resources and training, she is a certified mediator and arbitrator and author or coauthor of more than 30 articles and books. Details ISBN 1567203809 ISBN-13 9781567203806 Title Managing Compensation (and Understanding It Too) Author Donald L. Caruth, Gail D. Handlogten Format Hardcover Year 2001 Pages 280 Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing Plc GE_Item_ID:11114449; About Us Grand Eagle Retail is the ideal place for all your shopping needs! With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and over 1,000,000 in stock items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! Shipping & Delivery Times Shipping is FREE to any address in USA. Please view eBay estimated delivery times at the top of the listing. Deliveries are made by either USPS or Courier. We are unable to deliver faster than stated. International deliveries will take 1-6 weeks. NOTE: We are unable to offer combined shipping for multiple items purchased. This is because our items are shipped from different locations. Returns If you wish to return an item, please consult our Returns Policy as below: Please contact Customer Services and request "Return Authorisation" before you send your item back to us. Unauthorised returns will not be accepted. Returns must be postmarked within 4 business days of authorisation and must be in resellable condition. Returns are shipped at the customer's risk. We cannot take responsibility for items which are lost or damaged in transit. For purchases where a shipping charge was paid, there will be no refund of the original shipping charge. Additional Questions If you have any questions please feel free to Contact Us. Categories Baby Books Electronics Fashion Games Health & Beauty Home, Garden & Pets Movies Music Sports & Outdoors Toys

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