Rewarding Excellence

EDWARD E. LAWLER is director of the Center for Effective Organizations at the University of Southern California and professor of management and organization in the USC Marshall School of Business. An internationally acclaimed scholar and author, Lawler has written or co-written thirty books, including From the Ground Up (1996) and Strategies for Creating High Performance Organizations-The CEO Report (1998), both from Jossey-Bass. Business Week has recognized him as one of the leading management experts in America.

• Preface The Author IntroductionPart One: Rewards and Organizational Performance1. Organizational Effectiveness: The New Logic2. Reward System Design Choices3. Motivating and Satisfying Excellent IndividualsPart Two: Attracting, Developing, and Retaining Employees4. Attracting and Selecting Excellent Employees5. Job- and Seniority-Based Approaches6. Developing and Retaining the Right IndividualsPart Three: Rewarding Performance7. Rewarding Individual Performance8. Appraising Performance9. Rewarding Team Excellence10. Rewarding Organizational ExcellencePart Four: Strategic Design11. Strategic Reward System Design12. Creating High Performance Organizations

"Ed Lawler again expands our knowledge regarding a critical management challenge: how to align reward systems with the evolving organizational forms emerging in the new economy. In this new book, he provides CEOs and HR leaders with an easy-to-follow map for building organizational effectiveness through strategic reward system design." --Daryl D. David, vice president of human resources and strategic growth, Amazon.com, Inc. "Once again, Ed Lawler has written a book human resource professionals can use. Rewarding Excellence provides an excellent blueprint on how to design compensation systems that will attract and retain workers in today's knowledge economy." --Michael R. Losey, president and CEO, Society for Human Resource Management "Leadership capital is a vital corporate resource-perhaps the most critical of all in building for the future. As the 'war for talent' escalates, Ed Lawler's new book provides companies of all sizes with innovative ways to attract, retain, and motivate executives-and to maintain competitive advantage." --Richard M. Ferry, chairman, Korn/Ferry International "Worried about your business in the new millennium business economy? Ed Lawler provides cutting-edge concepts for building high-performance organizations!" --Steven L. Miller, chairman, president and CEO, Shell Oil Company