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Pay for Results
Wiley 2009; US$ 73.95The numerous incentive approaches and combinations and their implications can be dizzying even to the compensation professional. Pay for Results provides a road map for developing and implementing executive incentives that drive business needs and strategy. It is filled with specific analytic tools, including tables, exhibits, forms, checklists. In... more...
The Structure of Wages
University of Chicago Press 2009; US$ 45.00The distribution of income, the rate of pay raises, and the mobility of employees is crucial to understanding labor economics. Although research abounds on the distribution of wages across individuals in the economy, wage differentials within firms remain a mystery to economists. The first effort to examine linked employer-employee data across countries,... more...
Empowerment and Democracy in the Workplace: Applying Adult Education Theory and Practice for Cultivating Empowerment
ABC-CLIO 1997; US$ 103.00Adult Education contradicts the theorists and practitioners who claim that empowering organizations can only be created when those at the top decide to share power. The emancipating educational processes are the tools of those who work within systems whether the issue is literacy, civil rights or democracy in the workplace. The Adult Education movement... more...
Two Centuries of Compensation for U.S. Production Workers in Manufacturing
Palgrave Macmillan 2009; US$ 145.00Production workers continue to be an important group in the economy. Two Centuries of Compensation for U.S. Production Workers in Manufacturing is the first long-run annual series of average hourly compensation for U.S. production workers in manufacturing. Officer reviews both data sources and existing literature on related historical series as... more...
Wage Policy, Income Distribution, and Democratic Theory
Taylor and Francis 2010; US$ 150.00Wage policy can be broadly defined as a set of institutions designed to bolster the wages of workers, especially for those workers who lack negotiating power. This book concentrates on the relationship between wage policy and the distribution of income and the maintenance of a sustainable democracy. Whereas economists have looked at this issue in... more...
Getting a Cut
Lexington Books 2010; US$ 59.99Getting a Cut provides a perspective on nonstandard compensation that demonstrates the process by which commissions impact the experiences of workers. Understanding this under-researched perspective reveals a great deal about the process by which the interaction of structure, culture, and craft that define management practices shape the experiences... more...
Minimum Wages and Employment
Palgrave Macmillan 2004; US$ 130.00Christian Ragacs develops contributions to the theory of minimum wages, while taking rationing and spill-over effects on markets other than the labour market into account. Following an introduction into the theory of minimum wages and a discussion of methodological problems, four new theoretical models are developed; two of them comparative static... more...
The 3 Keys to Empowerment
Berrett-Koehler Publishers 1999; US$ 16.95As Ken Blanchard, John Carlos, and Alan Randolph clearly demonstrated in their previous bestseller, Empowerment Takes More Than a Minute, empowerment is not a goal that can be achieved in a minute. Empowerment is a process that requires ongoing effort, awareness, and commitment to transforming the hierarchy. This essential guide offers managers detailed,... more...
The New Division of Labour
De Gruyter 1995; US$ 168.00The New Division of Labor: Emerging Forms of Work Organization in International Perspective. more...
International Journal of Labour Research
ILO Publications 2012; US$ 42.00This issue of the International Journal of Labour Research is wholly dedicated to the question of the minimum wage, a matter that has gained in importance and profile in recent years. No doubt, the main reasons behind this rise in prominence relate to the stagnation of wages in several parts of the world, a generalized increase in earnings inequality... more...









