The Manager’s Guide to Rewards: What You Need to Know to Get the Best for—and from—Your Employees

Foreword

I WISH I COULD TELL YOU that there is a secret formula for a successful rewards program. It takes a lot of hard work from a lot of people to make a total rewards program work within an organization. It seems to me that the key to a successful rewards program isn’t so much about a sophisticated or elegant design as it is about making sure that it fits with the organization’s business strategy and work culture and that people believe it makes sense to them.

I think the idea of this book is on target. I strongly believe that the unit manager is the key in terms of making things happen in an organization and is the key differentiator in the effective implementation of a company’s set of rewards programs. One of the things I’ve learned in my ...