Employee Benefits Design and Compensation (Collection)

Foreword

This book is timely and much needed. It is about a complex and often poorly understood topic—a topic that has a major impact on employee retention and the bottom line.

Bashker Biswas is fully qualified to tackle this subject. He has more than 40 years of hands-on domestic and international experience as a compensation and benefits specialist and senior manager, and he has in-depth academic preparation in the field of human resources. He is also well known as an accomplished total-rewards management teacher and mentor.

It has been estimated that employee benefits are 35% to 40% of the total people costs. Yet, most HR professionals, and compensation and benefits specialists in particular, lack the knowledge and skills to competently perform ...