Summarises the presentations of academics and reward practitioners who presented at the CIPD’s Research into Practice (Reward) event in July 2007. The report is split into two sections:
Variable Pay Schemes
Summarises and pulls together six presentations on aspects of variable or contingent pay. These covered:
- incentive pay for senior executives
- the approaches to variable pay taken by three sectors - merchant banking, retail banking and engineering
- impact of variable pay schemes on union influence
- variable pay in France
- appraisal-based merit pay.
Reward in General
Summaries of three further presentations on
- expatriate compensation
- a possible ’job family’ approach to accommodating the differing reward preferences and labour markets of different occupational groups
- financial education and advice as an employee benefit
and a summary of discussions held in breakout sessions on:
- green reward and
- flexible benefits
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