New Strategies for Public Pay

HOWARD RISHER is senior fellow and adjunct professor of human resource management in the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. He has twenty-five years of experience in the areas of workforce management, compensation system design, and employee research. He served as project director for the study that resulted in federal pay reform and the enactment of the Federal Employees Pay Comparability Act (FEPCA) in 1990. A well-known compensation consultant to public agencies at the federal, state, and local level, Risher has also served as a consultant to major corporations, hospitals, and universities. Risher is a member of several professional associations and is an instructor for certification in compensation management. He is also a member of the advisory board for Compensation and Benefits Review. CHARLES H. FAY is director of the graduate program in human resource management and associate professor of human resource management at Rutgers University. He is also editor of Human Resource Planning and serves on the board and the research committee of the Human Resource Planning Society. In addition, he engages in research and consulting focused on compensation, systems, performance management, performance appraisal, and human resource support systems.Fay served as chair of the Research Committee of the American Compensation Association. He is also a former member of the Federal Salary Council, a presidential council that advises the Federal Pay Agent on salary issues concerning white-collar employees.

• Rethinking Government Compensation ProgramsOne: Understanding Salary Management1. Are Current Programs Working? Views from the Trenches, Barbara S. Wamsley2. Salary Structures: The Framework for Salary Management, Howard Risher3. Aligning Pay Levels with Prevailing Labor Market Rates, Charles Fay4. Job Classification: The Support System for Personal Decision Making, Lynn Holley, James O'Connell5. Job Evaluation: The Search for Internal Equity, Howard Risher, Lois Wise6. Rewarding Skills in the Public Sector, Nina Gupta7. Competency-Based Pay: The Next Model for Salary Management, Howard Risher8. Executive Salary Management: The Clash of Political and Labor Market Realities, Howard RisherTwo: Linking Pay to Performance9. Managing and Assessing Employee Performance, Doris Hausser, Charles Fay10. Merit Pay: Motivating and rewarding Individual Performance, Howard Risher, Charles Fay, James Perry11. Gainsharing in Government: Group-Based Performance Pay for Public Employees, Ronald P. Sanders12. Paying for Performance: Lessons Learned in Fifteen Years of Federal Demonstration Projects, Brigitte W. SchayThree: Public Compensation in Unionized and International Contexts13. The Role of Collective Bargaining in Public Sector Pay Determination, Bonnie Bogue14. Public Pay Programs in OECD Countries, Anke FreibertPlanning for the Future, Howard Risher, Charles Fay