Includes glossary and index

Contents: 1. Introducing the pay model and pay strategy: The pay model -- The totality of decisions -- 2. Internal alignment; determining the structure --Defining internal alignment -- Job analysis -- Job-based structure and job evaluation -- Person-based structures -- 3. External competitiveness; determining the pay level -- Defining competitiveness -- Designing pay levels, mix, and pay structures -- 4. Employee contributions: determining individual pay; Pay-for-performance; the evidence -- Pay-for-performance plans -- Performance appraisals -- 5. Employees benefit: The benefit determination process -- Benefit options -- 6. Extending the system: Compensation of special groups -- Union role in wage and salary administration -- International pay systems -- 7. Managing the system: Government and legal issues in compensation -- Management; making it work --