Compensation & Benefits Review

Managing workforce reductions in ways that do not also cause job security crises is an art that U.S. businesses are just beginning to learn.

The way in which companies treat workers during downsizing depends to a large measure on the reason for the downsizing.

The author presents a checklist of critical compensation and benefits issues to consider before, during, and following a restructuring.

Designing compensation and benefits programs for joint ventures entails determining when to use existing plans and when to create new ones.

Without an indepth appreciation of the advantages job evaluation provides, critics do not recognize that this process can still help companies move to "new frontiers" in their development.