Includes bibliographical references (p. 355-368) and index.

Why you should be concerned about your organization's reward systems -- How rewards work and why they sometimes fail -- Align rewards with the organization's strategy -- Create customized, systemized, and personalized rewards -- Be careful what you measure and reward -- Make salaries a defining system of the organization -- Designing base pay : choose your approach wisely -- Manage performance instead of appraising it -- How variable pay connects the people and the strategy -- Design variable pay plans with a difference -- Make recognition strategic and special -- Take stock of your options with equity -- How to use the right rewards for the firms' stage of development -- Transform rewards from entitlement to achievement -- Ideas you can use and those you should avoid -- Take your workplace to the next level.