Compensation Decision Making

The ultimate goal of the text is to make compensation decision makers out of its readers. No book can provide all the answers nor can it provide a fail-safe formula. What is can provide are the knowledge and techniques that lead to answers. All compensation decisions are made under a set of decision-making constraints. This book analyzes those constraints. A thorough understanding of them will assist the reader, since a careful consideration and weighing of all the constraints should result in more rational and workable compensation decisions.... The decisions have an impact upon the company achieving high productivity or slowly slipping into oblivion. To aid in preparing for compensation decisions, these pages were written to provide readers with the skills to make wise decisions in a complex, ever-changing, and competitive environment. -Pref.

This text equips students with a solid understanding of the theories, concepts, and principles behind compensation decision making. The new edition includes updated information about the detailed procedures used in implementation of compensation practices.

Employing a pragmatic approach to compensation system design, this innovative casebook walks students step-by-step through the decision-making process, equipping them with the skills and knowledge necessary to make effective decisions in a service or manufacturing setting. The text's completely integrated JOBEVAL sortware package enables students to see the results of their decisions, modify decisions, and print professional graphs and reports.

Monograph on job evaluation and wage determination methodology - examines the theoretical background, advocates the "decision band method" of job analysis and evaluation, grading and performance appraisal, and discusses its advantages (incl. Wage-decision making linkage and elimination of discrimination) and possible wage differentials for differing working conditions, skills, job content, etc., under the system. Graphs and references.

Who makes the important decisions in your organization? Strategy, product development, budgeting, compensation—such key decisions typically are made by company leaders. That’s what bosses are for, right? But maybe the boss isn’t the best person to make the call. That’s the conclusion Dennis Bakke came to, and he used it to build AES into a Fortune 200 global power company with 27,000 people in 27 countries. He used it again to create Imagine Schools, the largest non-profit charter-school network in the U.S. As a student at Harvard Business School, Bakke made hundreds of decisions using the case-study method. He realized two things: decision-making is the best way to develop people; and that shouldn't stop at business school. So Bakke spread decision-making throughout his organizations, fully engaging people at all levels. Today, Bakke has given thousands of people the freedom and responsibility to make decisions that matter. In The Decision Maker, a leadership fable loosely based on Bakke's experience, the New York Times bestselling author shows us how giving decisions to the people closest to the action can transform any organization. The idea is simple. The results are powerful. When leaders put real control into the hands of their people, they tap incalculable potential. The Decision Maker, destined to be a business classic, holds the key to unlocking the potential of every person in your organization.

This accessible Handbook provides an essential entry point for those with an interest in the increasingly complex subject of financial decision making. It sheds light on new paradigms in society and the ways that new tools from private actors have affected financial decision making. Covering a broad range of key topics in the area, leading researchers summarize the state-of-the-art in their respective areas of expertise, delineating their projections for the future.