From the authors of the best sellers: Pay People Right! Breakthrough Rewards Strategies to Create Great Companies
and The New Pay: Linking Employee and Organizational Performance:
Jay R. Schuster and Patricia K. Zingheim, Schuster-Zingheim and Associates, Inc. 

Welcome to the October 2006 issue of The SZA Total Rewards Bulletin. In January 2007, we will publish our new book, High-Performance Pay: Fast Forward to Business Success, with WorldatWork as our publisher. We will tell you more about this book as the publication date nears. In this issue of the Bulletin, the Strategy section talks briefly about our belief that businesses need to focus on creating a Best High-Performance Place to Work that rewards skill, competence, and results. In Tactics, we are concerned about the role of the manager in making paying for performance work. Too often managers say to employees, “I would give you more, but HR won’t let me”—we all know it is the manager’s responsibility to give feedback and rewards, and perhaps some training is needed. The Tips section addresses issues of performance management that we view as critical to creating a performance culture and a high-performance workplace.

Pay & Reward Strategy:
Total Rewards and Best High-Performance Place to Work
We believe it is time to become a “best high-performance place to work.” Are seeking to become a total rewards organization and receiving a designation from Fortune or Working Woman as a Best Place to Work compatible organizational goals? Or is it one or the other? And where do “work-life benefits” fit in the strategy picture for creating a workplace that facilitates growth, contribution, and results?...read more

Pay & Rewards Tactics:
What Are Good High-Performance Total Rewards Managers Made Of?
From a human resource perspective, good managers are developed and certainly not born. And in most cases, they are not even developed. Rather, most organizations take the most senior non-manager in a functional area and make them the functional manager. One day the employee has no management responsibilities, and the next they are a manager...The assumption is that people who have been excellent in non-management roles will also be good managers...read more

Pay & Rewards Tips:
Setting the Table for Performance Feedback
Most performance management processes call for a periodic formal review of skill, competency, and performance over the prior performance period...Whatever the performance management process, these suggestions universally apply...read more

In this issue:

Pay & Reward Strategy:
Total Rewards and Best High-Performance Place to Work

Pay & Reward Tactics:
What Are Good High-Performance Total Rewards Managers Made Of?

Pay & Reward Tips:
Setting the Table for Performance Feedback

Come see us!

Jay Schuster and Pat Zingheim

Creative Rewards to Engage Top Talent
Jay Schuster
Thursday, October 26, 2006
Hilton Garden Inn
Burlingame, CA
Sponsored by: Human Resource Strategy Forum

How to Develop A Workable Incentive Plan
Jay Schuster and Pat Zingheim
Tuesday, December 5, 2006
Los Angeles, CA
Sponsored by: Professionals in Human Resources Association (PIHRA)

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