Compensation and Benefit Design

by Bashker D. Biswas
Compensation and Benefit Design
Author: Bashker D. Biswas
Publisher: FT Press
Total Pages: 458
Release: 2012-12-07
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0133064859
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In Compensation and Benefit Design, Bashker D. Biswas shows exactly how to bring financial rigor to crucial "people" decisions associated with compensation and benefit program development. This comprehensive book begins by introducing a valuable Human Resource Life Cycle Model for considering compensation and benefit programs. Biswas thoroughly addresses the acquisition component of compensation, as well as issues related to general compensation, equity compensation, and pension accounting. He assesses the full financial impact of executive compensation programs and employee benefit plans, and discusses the unique issues associated with international HR systems and programs. This book contains a full chapter on HR key indicator reporting, and concludes with detailed coverage of trends in human resource accounting, and the deepening linkages between financial and HR planning. Replete with both full and "mini" case examples throughout, this book will be valuable to a wide spectrum of HR and financial professionals, with titles including compensation and benefits analysts, managers, directors, and consultants; HR specialists, accounting specialists, financial analysts, total rewards directors, controller, finance director, benefits actuaries, executive compensation consultants, corporate regulators, and labor attorneys. It also contains chapter-ending exercises and problems for use by students in HR and finance programs.

Employee Benefits Design and Compensation (Collection)

by Bashker D. Biswas
Employee Benefits Design and Compensation (Collection)
Author: Bashker D. Biswas
Publisher: FT Press
Total Pages: 968
Release: 2014-05-29
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0133764486
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A new collection of best practices for designing better compensation and benefit programs… 2 authoritative books, now in a convenient e-format, at a great price! 2 authoritative eBooks help you drive more value, efficiency, and competitive advantage from compensation and benefits programs Compensation and benefit programs are the largest expenses in most organizations; in service organizations, they often represent more than 50% of total costs. In this unique 2 eBook package, leading consultant Bashker D. Biswas helps you systematically optimize these programs to maximize value, efficiency, and competitive advantage. In Employee Benefits Design and Planning , Biswas brings together all the knowledge you need to make better benefits decisions. He introduces core principles for ensuring proper financing, funding, compliance, and recordkeeping; accurate actuarial calculations; and effective employee communication. Building on these principles, he guides you through benefits ranging from healthcare and disability insurance to retirement and cafeteria plans. You'll find up-to-date discussions of complex challenges, such as the Affordable Care Act and global benefits planning. Throughout, he offers essential insights for managing rising costs and risks, while ensuring that benefits programs improve productivity, reflect best practices, and align with your organization's strategy and goals. Next, in Compensation and Benefit Design , Biswas helps HR professionals bring true financial and accounting discipline to compensation and benefit design, tightly align talent management to strategy, and quantify program performance in the language of finance. Biswas thoroughly explains best-fit practices for superior program design, demystifies relevant financial and accounting concepts, and illuminates key connections between HR program development and GAAP/IFRS accounting requirements. His far-reaching coverage ranges from integrating compensation and benefits into Balanced Scorecards to managing expatriate compensation. Biswas reveals the true financial implications of every element of modern compensation and benefit programs, from base salaries to stock incentives, sales compensation to healthcare cost containment. Perhaps most important, he helps you systematically measure the value of your investments -- so you can both prove and improve your performance. Simply put, this collection brings together unparalleled tools for optimizing compensation and benefits programs -- whether you're in HR, finance, line-of-business management, or corporate management. From Dr. Bashker D. Biswas, world-renowned expert in employee compensation and benefits program design

Employee Benefits Design and Planning

by Bashker D. Biswas
Employee Benefits Design and Planning
Author: Bashker D. Biswas
Publisher: Pearson Education
Total Pages: 410
Release: 2014-04-11
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0133481360
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This book offers guidance for understanding benefits options and plan structures, and making better decisions for your organization. Writing for both HR and finance professionals, internationally respected compensation and benefits professor and consultant Bashker Biswas drills comprehensively into today's most important benefits-related topics and challenges. Employee Benefits Design and Planning covers all this, and much more: Finance and accounting implications of Healthcare benefits Other risk benefits Severance benefits Disability and group life insurance programs Flexible benefits Non-qualified deferred arrangements 409A plans, ESOPs, Money Purchase Pension Plans, Cash Balance Plans, 401(k), 403(b) plans and 457 Plans Employee benefit plan financial reporting, legal compliance, and auditing Employee benefits in mergers and acquisitions Self-funding vs. insurance funding decisions Global employee benefits including umbrella pension plans and multi-national pooling Equity participation in employee benefit plans Biswas introduces and explains key employee benefit metrics and ratios, and demonstrates best practices for forecasting costs and budgeting appropriately. For all compensation professionals, benefits professionals, human resource professionals, accounting professionals, labor attorneys, financial analysts, and finance professionals. Readers will have roles in benefits-related consulting, finance, accounting, and human resource management, both domestic and international.

The WorldatWork Handbook of Compensation, Benefits and Total Rewards

by WorldatWork
The WorldatWork Handbook of Compensation, Benefits and Total Rewards
Author: WorldatWork
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 864
Release: 2015-03-05
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1119104335
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Praise for The WorldatWork Handbook of Compensation, Benefits & Total Rewards This is the definitive guide to compensation and benefits for modern HR professionals who must attract, motivate, and retain quality employees. Technical enough for specialists but broad in scope for generalists, this well-rounded resource belongs on the desk of every recruiter and HR executive. An indispensable tool for understanding and implementing the total rewards concept, the WorldatWork Handbook of Compensation, Benefits, and Total Rewards is the key to designing compensation practices that ensure organizational success. Coverage includes: Why the total rewards strategy works Developing the components of a total rewards program Common ways a total rewards program can go wrong Designing and implementing a total rewards program Communicating the total rewards vision Developing a compensation philosophy and package FLSA and other laws that affect compensation Determining and setting competitive salary levels And much more

Introduction to Business

by Lawrence J. Gitman
Introduction to Business
Author: Lawrence J. Gitman
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1455
Release: 2024-09-16
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:
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Introduction to Business covers the scope and sequence of most introductory business courses. The book provides detailed explanations in the context of core themes such as customer satisfaction, ethics, entrepreneurship, global business, and managing change. Introduction to Business includes hundreds of current business examples from a range of industries and geographic locations, which feature a variety of individuals. The outcome is a balanced approach to the theory and application of business concepts, with attention to the knowledge and skills necessary for student success in this course and beyond. This is an adaptation of Introduction to Business by OpenStax. You can access the textbook as pdf for free at openstax.org. Minor editorial changes were made to ensure a better ebook reading experience. Textbook content produced by OpenStax is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Compensation and Benefits Manual - User Guide

by Indranil Gupta
Compensation and Benefits Manual - User Guide
Author: Indranil Gupta
Publisher:
Total Pages: 114
Release: 2020-04-08
Genre:
ISBN:
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The Compensation and Benefits Manual is a detailed illustration of Total Rewards, an advanced model of Human Resource management that goes beyond employee remuneration, which helps organizations to not only attract, motivate and retain, but also ensure building engaged employees, enhancing their performance and improving their competitiveness in the global workforce market.WHAT YOU WILL LEARN1.Fundamental concepts of compensation, benefits, rewards & total rewards.2.Link your compensation philosophies & strategies to your organization goals & HR objectives.3.About job evaluations & job pricing, and their significance in setting salaries & employee rewards.4.About the key statistical methodologies used in compensation research & data analysis.5.How to design appropriate & relevant total compensation plans & reward programs.6.About the principles of evaluating performance and linking performance to effective rewards.7.About market compensation & benefits benchmarking surveys & how to use the market data results in determining your internal salary levels.8.How to develop performance-based pay systems & other variable pay programs.9.How to design compensation structures & flexible pay plans based on tax laws and statutory compliances.10.How to design effective reward communication programs for your business successCONTENT AND COVERAGE1.CHAPTER 1 : COMPENSATION SYSTEMSIntroduction, Understanding of the Fundamentals of Compensation, Benefits, Rewards, Total Rewards, Components of Compensation Systems, Compensation Systems in the Indian Environment, Compensation Approach and Framework. 2.CHAPTER 2: REWARD CONCEPTS Reward Philosophy, Reward Strategy, Total Reward Programs, Factors Affecting Rewards, Statutory Compliances, Environmental Factors, Impact of Globalization on Compensation Programs.3.CHAPTER 3 : JOB EVALUATION AND PRICINGJob Evaluation, Aspects of Job Evaluation, Job Evaluation Methodologies, Job Design, Point Rating Method, Hay Guide Chart Profile, Job Evaluation and Pay Determination, Job Pricing, Broad Banding, Linking Job Points to Pay Points.4.CHAPTER 4 : COMPENSATION SURVEYS & DATA ANALYSISCompensation Surveys, Types of Surveys, Job Equivalence, Survey Data Analysis, Job Evaluation and Salary Data, Grade Point and Market Salary, Median Pay, Percentiles, Compensation Ratios, Salary Rates, Salary Equity, Market Parity.5.CHAPTER 5 : DEVELOPING COMPENSATION STRUCTURESEvolution of Compensation Structures, Types of Employee Rewards, Standard Reward Practices, Flexible Pay Programs, Developing Different Compensation Structures in a Global Environment, Communicating of Compensation and Benefits Structures as 'Employee Value Proposition'.6.CHAPTER 6 : VARIABLE PAY PLANSVariable Pays, Types of Variable Pays (STI, MTI, LTI), Trends in Variable Pays, Designing Variable Pays, Steps in Introducing Variable Pays, Rewarding Critical Roles & Hot Skills, Different Types of Variable Pay Programs. 7.CHAPTER 7 : LINKING REWARDS TO PERFORMANCE Defining Performance Parameters, Measuring Performance, Basic Guidelines for Rewarding, Typical Reward Models, Linking Rewards to Performance, Pay for Performance, Integrating Total Rewards with Job, Market & Performance.8.CHAPTER 8 : REWARD COMMUNICATIONCommunication of Reward Programs, Changing Approach to Reward Communications, Steps in Effective Reward Communication, Implementation Guidelines for Reward Programs in Organizations.9.CHAPTER 9 : CASE STUDIESMeritt has trained more than 1,000 HR, Line and Business Professionals from over 500 Organizations from India and Middle East Countries. Meritt delivers these Trainings through its dedicated Training Division, called "MERITT LEARNING CENTER". For details contact -Meritt Learning Center9810557518; 7428466822;[email protected]

The Complete Guide to Sales Force Incentive Compensation

by Andris Zoltners
The Complete Guide to Sales Force Incentive Compensation
Author: Andris Zoltners
Publisher: AMACOM
Total Pages: 511
Release: 2006-08-07
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0814429726
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A well-designed and implemented incentive program is an essential tool for building a motivated, highly effective sales force that delivers the results you need. Incentive programs are seductively powerful but complicated instruments. Without careful planning and implementation, they can be too stingy to motivate, too complex to understand, too quick to reward mediocre results, and too difficult to implement. The Complete Guide to Sales Force Incentive Compensation is a practical, accessible, detailed roadmap to building a compensation system that gets it right by creating motivating incentives that produce positive outcomes. Packed with hundreds of real-life examples of what works and what doesn't, this important guide helps you: Understand the value of building an incentive plan that is aligned with your company's goals and culture. Avoid the common trap of overusing incentives to solve too many sales management problems. Measure the effectiveness of your current incentive program, employing easy-to-use tools and metrics for pinpointing its weak spots. Design a compensation plan that attracts and retains successful salespeople, including guidelines for determining the correct pay level, the best salary incentive mix, the proper performance measures, and the right performance payout relationship. Select an incentive compensation plan that works for your organization -- then test the plan before it is launched. Set territory-level goals that are fair and realistic, and avoid overpaying the sales force or demoralizing salespeople by having difficult goals or not fairly assigned. Create and manage sales contests, SPIFFs (Special Performance Incentive for Field Force), and recognition programs that consistently deliver the intended results. Manage a successful transition to a new compensation plan and build efficient administration systems to support your plan. Filled with ready-to-use formulas and assessment tools and a wealth of insights from frontline sales managers and executives, The Complete Guide to Sales Force Incentive Compensation is your hands-on, easy-to-read playbook for crucially important decisions.

The WorldatWork Handbook of Total Rewards

by WorldatWork
The WorldatWork Handbook of Total Rewards
Author: WorldatWork
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 421
Release: 2021-02-24
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1119682444
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Equip yourself to manage, motivate, compensate, and reward everyone in this workplace revolution The future of work is here. From the shift to Millennials and Gen Z in the workforce to the advent of the Fourth Industrial Revolution and the Gig Economy, the world of work and rewards has significantly changed since the initial WorldatWork Handbook was published. Human resources and total rewards professionals need tools to equip them to manage a changing workforce. This completely revised second edition addresses the challenging and disruptive issues facing employers today and tomorrow. The WorldatWork Handbook of Total Rewards is the definitive authority on compensation and rewards from the leading global nonprofit organizations for professionals who are engaged in the critically important practice of total rewards. This book is a go-to resource for all business professionals and leaders who reward and create productive, committed and inspired workforces worldwide. Readers will learn the basics of rewards, along with a deep dive and high-level view of how rewards programs enable organizations to deliver on their brand promises and perform at their optimal level. Gain a thorough understanding of compensation and benefits, along with employee well-being, development, and recognition, all updated to address the realities of today’s workplace. Understand why the Millennial and Gen Z workforce requires a different value proposition, and how to meet their needs. Discover the tools and techniques you need to help you reskill and become a highly valued workforce contributor and leader in the digital era. Learn how to attract, retain, and engage talent by building a healthy workplace culture and employing unique incentives that drive high performance and loyalty. Technical enough for specialists but broad in scope for managers and HR generalists, this well-rounded resource belongs on the desk of anyone interested in organizational effectiveness. An indispensable tool for understanding and implementing the total rewards concept, The WorldatWork Handbook of Total Rewards, Second Edition is the key to designing programs and practices that ensure employee engagement and organizational success.