Compensation and Organizational Performance: Theory, Research, and Practice (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780765622518)

This up-to-date, research-oriented textbook focuses on the relationship between compensation systems and firm overall performance. In contrast to more traditional compensation texts, it provides a strategic perspective to compensation administration rather than a functional viewpoint. The text emphasizes the role of managerial pay, its importance, determinants, and impact on organizations. It analyzes recent topics in executive compensation, such as pay in high technology firms, managerial risk taking, rewards in family companies, and the link between compensation and social responsibility and ethical issues, among others. The authors provide a thorough and comprehensive review of the vast literatures relevant to compensation and revisit debates grounded in different theoretical perspectives. They provide insights from disciplines as diverse as management, economics, sociology, and psychology, and amplify previous discussions with the latest empirical findings on compensation, its dynamics, and its contribution to firm overall performance.

Author: Luis R. Gomez-Mejia, Pascual Berrone, Monica Franco-Santos
ISBN-10: 0765622513
ISBN-13: 9780765622518
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 02/28/2010
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.90d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 05/01/2010 pg. 126