Part 1: The fundamentals of effective reward systems -- Why you should be concerned about reward systems -- How rewards work and why they sometimes fail -- Align rewards with the organization's strategy -- Create customized, systematized, and personalized rewards -- Be careful what you measure and reward -- Part 2: Implementing innovative reward strategies -- Make salaries a defining system of the organization -- Designing base pay : choose your approach wisely -- Manage performance instead of appraising it -- How variable pay connects the people and the strategy -- Design variable pay plans with a difference -- Make recognition strategic and special -- Take stock of your options with equity -- Part 3: Putting rewards into practice -- How to use the right rewards for the firm's stage of development -- Transform rewards from entitlement to achievement -- Ideas you can use and those you should avoid -- Take your workplace to the next level

1. Incentives in industry -- United States
2. Compensation management -- United States
3. Organizational change -- United States