The WorldatWork Handbook of Compensation, Benefits & Total Rewards: A
Comprehensive Guide for HR Professionals
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
WorldatWork, founded in 1955, is the world's leading not-for-profit
professional association dedicated to knowledge leadership in total rewards, compensation,
benefits, and work-life. WorldatWork focuses on human resources disciplines associated
with attracting, motivating, and retaining employees. Besides serving as the membership
association of the professions, the WorldatWork familyof organizations provides education,
certification (Certified Compensation Professional/CCP, Certified Benefits
Professional/CBP, Global Remuneration Professional/GRP, and Work-Life Certified
Professional/WLCP), publications, knowledge resources, surveys, conferences, research, and
networking.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Redefining Employee Rewards by Anne C. Ruddy
Chapter 1. Total Rewards: Everything that Employees Value in the Employment Relationship.
Chapter 2. Why the Total Rewards Approach Works.
Chapter 3. Developing a Total Rewards Strategy.
Chapter 4. Designing a Total Rewards Program.
Chapter 5. A Total Rewards Design Tool That Measures Up.
Chapter 6. Communicating Total Rewards.
Chapter 7. Compensation Fundamentals.
Chapter 8. Regulatory Environment: The FLSA and Other Laws That Affect Compensation
Practices.
Chapter 9. Market Pricing.
Chapter 10. Salary Surveys: A Snapshot.
Hardcover, 864 pages