In order to recruit, motivate and retain an effective workforce, organizations must have an appropriate reward strategy. This practical and accessible text discusses reward management, policies and strategies and examines the key components of the total remuneration package. The author evaluates the effectiveness of various elements of the remuneration package and relates this to theories of motivation associated with the individual and organizational performance. All aspects of reward management are discussed including performance related pay, pension schemes, equal pay, payment systems,…mehr
In order to recruit, motivate and retain an effective workforce, organizations must have an appropriate reward strategy. This practical and accessible text discusses reward management, policies and strategies and examines the key components of the total remuneration package. The author evaluates the effectiveness of various elements of the remuneration package and relates this to theories of motivation associated with the individual and organizational performance. All aspects of reward management are discussed including performance related pay, pension schemes, equal pay, payment systems, management of the reward management system and remuneration packages for expatriate workers. This book provides a succinct introduction to the subject for undergraduate and MBA students and those taking the IPD Reward Management course. It is also of great interest to HRM professionals devising and implementing a remuneration policy.
David Hume (7 May 1711 - 25 August 1776) was a Scottish Enlightenment philosopher, historian, economist, and essayist, who is best known today for his highly influential system of philosophical empiricism, skepticism, and naturalism. Hume strove to create a naturalistic science of man that examined the psychological basis of human nature. Hume argued against the existence of innate ideas, positing that all human knowledge derives solely from experience. This places him with Francis Bacon, Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and George Berkeley as a British Empiricist.Hume argued that inductive reasoning and belief in causality cannot be justified rationally; instead, they result from custom and mental habit. We never actually perceive that one event causes another but only experience the "constant conjunction" of events. This problem of induction means that to draw any causal inferences from past experience, it is necessary to presuppose that the future will resemble the past, a presupposition which cannot itself be grounded in prior experience.An opponent of philosophical rationalists, Hume held that passions rather than reason govern human behaviour, famously proclaiming that "Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions." Hume influenced utilitarianism, logical positivism, the philosophy of science, early analytic philosophy, cognitive science, theology, and many other fields and thinkers. Immanuel Kant credited Hume as the inspiration who had awakened him from his "dogmatic slumbers."
