Executive Guide to Integrated Talent Management

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Aligning Learning and Development With Compensation and Rewards

Jon Ingham

Ensuring the alignment and integration of learning and development with compensation and rewards—and other management policies, processes, and practices—is an important aspect of effective talent management. There is, first, a need for horizontal alignment—ensuring that both L&D and C&R, along with other elements of the HR and management architecture, are linked together and support one another.

However, it is even more important for an organization to ensure vertical alignment, which it achieves from having both L&D and C&R, and other processes, aligned with its overall business strategy and its mission, vision, and values.

One helpful concept is organizational ...