Managing Employee Performance and Reward: Strategies, Practices and Prospects

Managing Employee Performance and Reward: Strategies, Practices and Prospects covers two major components of human resource management: managing the performance of employees and how they are rewarded.The text's holistic approach focuses on two overarching objectives of an effective human resource management system: strategic alignment and employees' psychological engagement.The fourth edition has been streamlined to address more clearly the fundamental concepts, strategies and practices of performance and reward.A new chapter on pay negotiation and communication examines pay transparency policies and explores the factors affecting pay negotiation, with particular reference to gender and cultural identity.Each chapter includes discussion questions and 'reality checks' linking to the book's main themes of strategic alignment and psychological engagement.A new running case study takes students through realistic human resource management scenarios and encourages them to apply what they hav