A text for undergraduate and graduate business students, including those in community colleges, addressing traditional aspects of compensation, such as job analysis and pay structure, as well as recent topics including knowledge-based pay and executive compensation. Contains sections on the context of compensation practice, bases for pay, designing compensation systems, employee benefits, and contemporary strategic compensation challenges. Includes chapter objectives, summaries, key terms, discussion questions, and exercises, with answers on a Web site. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.