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The definitive guide to improving performance through reward and recognition policies and processes by leading human resource management expert Michael Armstrong.
List of contents
Chapter - 00: Introduction; Section - ONE: Fundamentals of reward management; Chapter - 01: Reward management - An overview; Chapter - 02: Strategic reward; Chapter - 03: Total reward; Section - TWO: Aspects of reward management; Chapter - 04: Factors affecting reward; Chapter - 05: Financial rewards; Chapter - 06: Non-financial rewards; Chapter - 07: Motivation and reward; Chapter - 08: Engagement and reward; Chapter - 09: Performance and reward; Chapter - 10: Financial well-being; Chapter - 11: The gender pay gap; Chapter - 12: The ethical approach to reward and performance management; Section - Section THREE: Base pay management; Chapter - 13: Job evaluation; Chapter - 14: Market pricing; Chapter - 15: Grade and pay structures; Section - FOUR: Rewarding and recognizing performance; Chapter - 16: Pay progression through contingent pay; Chapter - 17: Bonus schemes; Chapter - 18: Team pay; Chapter - 19: Rewarding for business performance; Chapter - 20: Recognition; Section - FIVE: Rewarding special groups; Chapter - 21: Rewarding chief executives; Chapter - 22: Rewarding sales and customer service staff; Chapter - 23: Rewarding knowledge workers; Chapter - 24: Rewarding manual workers; Chapter - 25: International reward; Section - SIX: Employee benefits; Chapter - 26: Employee pensions and benefits; Chapter - 27: Flexible benefits; Section - SEVEN: The practice of reward management; Chapter - 28: Evidence-based reward management; Chapter - 29: Managing reward systems; Chapter - 30: Managing reward risk; Chapter - 31: Responsibility for reward; Chapter - 32: Reward management developments in the UK
About the author
Michael Armstrong is the UK's bestselling author of Human Resource Management books including Armstrong's Handbook of Human Resource Management Practice, Armstrong's Handbook of Strategic Human Resource Management, Armstrong's Handbook of Reward Management Practice and Armstrong's Handbook of Performance Management and several other titles published by Kogan Page. His books have sold over a million copies and have been translated into twenty-one languages.
Michael Armstrong is a Companion and former Chief Examiner of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD), a managing partner of E-Reward and an independent management consultant. Prior to this he was an HR director of a publishing company. He is based in London, UK.Duncan Brown is an independent rewards adviser and researcher. He has more than 30 years' experience with employers including IES, Aon Hewitt, PwC and Willis Towers Watson. He also spent five years as Assistant Director General and head of research and policy at the CIPD.
His recent clients have included major firms such as Network Rail and Shell, public sector bodies such as the National Health Service and Equalities and Human Rights Commission; and not-for-profit organizations such as the Council of Europe, Church of England, Unicef and the RSPCA.
Duncan advises a number of remuneration committee including Christian Aid and the London School of Economics. He is an employer trustee for the CIPD Pension Plan. He has participated on Government taskforces concerned with fair pay (the Hutton Review), engagement, pensions and gender pay reporting. He has advised government reviews on the pay setting methods for key public sector workers including doctors and dentists, the judiciary and Armed Forces personnel.
Summary
The definitive guide to improving performance through reward and recognition policies and processes by leading human resource management expert Michael Armstrong.