Evidence-Based Reward Management

2The concept of evidence-based reward management

The need for actual productivity and performance improvements, the changing work force, and the intensified competition for business have required organizations to include human resource issues in their overall strategies and financial plans. They do this by focusing human resource expenditures on directions that support organizational priorities and challenges.

Schuster and Zingheim (1992))

Rewards should be the third thing an organization works on; measurements should be the second, clear articulation of desired outcomes should be the first.

Kerr (1999)

Introduction

In this chapter we build on the foundation provided by Chapter 1, in which the principles of evidence-based management were explored. ...