Pay People Right!: Breakthrough Reward Strategies to Create Great Companies (Jossey Bass Business & Management Series)

Pay People Right!: Breakthrough Reward Strategies to Create Great Companies (Jossey Bass Business & Management Series)

by Jay R. Schuster (Author), Patricia K. Zingheim (Author)

Synopsis

Widely recognized as the nation's foremost experts on pay strategies, Zingheim and Schuster offer up a nuts-and-bolts guide on how a company can use pay to create a win-win partnership with its workforce. Their advice is direct and specific and will help you tackle many of today's most critical business issues from attracting and retaining talent to motivating sales staffs to improving mergers and acquisitions. Charged with readily usable tools for successfully implementing pay change, Pay People Right! also contains numerous examples of how many top organizations are creating total rewards packages that engage people and enhance performance.

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 416
Edition: 1
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Published: 16 Feb 2000

ISBN 10: 078794016X
ISBN 13: 9780787940164

Media Reviews
A thoroughly up-to-the minute explanation of the best thinking onpay practices by two extraordinary well qualified experts. Whatcould be of greater value? At last a readable book that providesanswers to today's trickiest pay issues. --Jack Zenger, president, PROVANT Inc., and co-author of Results-Based Leadership, LeadingTeams, and Self-Directed Work Teams

Zingheim and Schuster have done it again! They have produced asecond must-read book on pay. Pay People Right! is full of usefulinformation about how to create and manage pay systems that fittoday's organizations. More than just a how to do it approach, itprovides a business basis for the development of key pay strategieswhich can provide a competitive advantage. --Edward E. Lawler III, director, Center for Effective Organizations, University ofSouthern California, and author of From the Ground Up and RewardingExcellence

Pay People Right! offers practical, forward thinking, and usefuladvice on how to design and deliver compensation systems to getresults. The book has been invaluable to me in clarifying mythinking and is a must read for managers, HR professionals, consultants, and others who craft reward systems. I use it inteaching our executive program. --Dave Ulrich, University ofMichigan professor, author of Human Resource Champions, andco-author of Results-Based Leadership

Zingheim and Schuster have written a first-rate book on rewardsystems. It is reader-friendly, original and practical. What's mostimpressive is how they demonstrate the effect of pay on mergers, team performance as well as performance measures in general plusproviding some useful lessons on pay systems during times ofhyper-turbulent change. If the lessons of this book arethoughtfully applied, improved organizational effectiveness willfollow. --Warren Bennis, Distinguished Professor of Business, University of Southern California, and co-author ofCo-Leaders

Pay People Right! is a must read for those who wrestle with thedynamic and critical challenge of using pay to help get betterresults from the workforce. It provides practical solutions forachieving a balance between workforce fulfillment and peformance. --Jon R. Katzenbach, founder of Katzenbach Partners LLC, author ofTeams at the Top and coauthor of The Wisdom of Teams
Author Bio
JAY R. SCHUSTER are partners in Schuster-Zingheim and Associates, Inc., a pay consulting firm founded in 1985 and located in Los Angeles. They consult extensively on total rewards with companies in the U.S. and throughout the world, and are frequent speakers to business and professional groups. Their web site is www paypeopleright.com.