Dr Mark Bussin has consistently contributed to the development of a host of human resource managers in the remuneration field in Africa via his corporate and consulting experience, wise counsel, writings, and hundreds of lectures, TV and radio interviews. He has developed a generation of remuneration experts, helped define the field of practice, and made a significant contribution to the national level of excellence in the field. How we remunerate employees reflects the dynamics of the market and context in which we operate. It aligns at all times to the strategic direction and specific value drivers of the businesses within which our organisation operates. Remuneration plays a critical role in attracting, motivating and retaining high-performing individuals. Remuneration also reinforces, encourages and promotes superior performance.

Through variable remuneration linked to value drivers, superior performance is recognised and rewarded, while poor performance and under-achievement are coached and managed. Remuneration is never a stand-alone management process, but is rather fully integrated into other management processes, such as the performance management process, and the overall Human Resources policies.

Contents include:

• Remuneration Policy and Strategy
• Job Roles and Competence
• Job Evaluation
• Broad-banding
• Individual Performance Competence
• Skills-based Pay
• Pay Structures
• Setting Pay Levels
• Total Packages
• Payroll
• Team-based Pay
• Sales Force Incentives
• Variable Pay Schemes
• Incentive Pay Schemes
• How to Design an Incentive Scheme
• Long-Term Incentive Schemes
• International Assignment Remuneration
• Remuneration Trends in Africa
• Retention and Engagement
• Reward and Recognition
• Remuneration Committees and Boardroom Pay
• Remuneration Governance
• Reward Trends

Performance management systems have become too time-consuming and cumbersome – the time is right for a reboot.

This guide will show you how to revisit your performance management strategies – use simpler tools, move towards developmental discussions, and remove or reduce ‘forced’ rankings. This handbook serves as a practical and convenient guide to managing performance in an uncertain, turbulent, world where companies must adapt.

This book is guaranteed to be different from other performance management titles you’ve read, because it’s:

• Based on years of personal experience in implementing hundreds of performance management systems in companies.
• Written by contributors who have actually done and experienced what they are writing about.
• Practical and, for once, tells you how to do it, with no missing steps or information. There are tool kits, forms and check lists that can be used instantly.
• Written in plain English with no bamboozling jargon, with many practical examples and templates that you can amend to suit your needs.
• Underpinned by empirical research.

After reading Performance Management Reboot you will be able to design, implement and use a performance management system that is perceived as fair by all stakeholders and which stimulates better performance.

The future of the Human Resource Management profession is inextricably linked to understanding data analytics. This book provides practical, hands-on approaches to connect data to HR policies and practices to help influence overall business performance. Building on traditional HR skillsets, the book makes understanding and engaging with data analytics possible for professionals at all levels. Leveraging key statistical and financial concepts, including ROI and people productivity, and commonly available tools such as Workday and Tableau, the authors explore key skills and tasks in an accessible and illuminating way, including: data-analytic thinking data management data collection clean-up and warehousing building descriptive and predictive models applying HR analytics skills and tools to workforce planning, recruitment, training, and turnover analysis. Fundamentals of HR Analytics is an essential resource for aspiring, new and experienced HR professionals across a wide range of industrial contexts, as well as data analysts working on business workforce focused projects and upper level students of HR encountering data analytics in this context for the first time.

Working in the field of expatriate compensation is extremely complex. Designing and administering appropriate pay levels and rewards for a globally mobile workforce present multi-faceted difficulties and challenges for all organisations and international consultants. Not only must we deal with the technical exercise of calculating and equating quality-of-life standards for mobile employees, but we must also address the psychological issues of transferring employees from one culture to another sometimes vastly different one. There is a lot at stake here: from an organisational productivity and cost perspective all the way through to employee performance and motivation. Without question, successfully addressing and resolving all of the quantitative and qualitative issues and concerns with mobility are what separates premier global human resources professionals from the average players.

Dr Bussin’s latest book, Expatriate Compensation, is an aggregation of his extensive experiences working in the field. He and his cadre of expert authors comprehensively cover every aspect of dealing successfully with international assignments and the mobile employee: from the reasons to go global to setting appropriate market-based pay rates, tax implications, recognising and rewarding performance and dealing with employee motivational issues. Moreover, Dr Bussin has the gift of taking this very complex subject matter and distilling it so that it can be easily understood and absorbed. Indeed, all of the information in the book is presented in a practical, straightforward,and real-world manner.

The ‘New World of Work’ is not a future concept. It is a current reality. Not only has the nature of work changed, but how we organise ourselves to optimally deliver the work is also evolving. There’s no doubt, the advent of ‘Agile’ is challenging traditional organisation structures and ways of working.

How should HR practitioners and business leaders respond? This book explores this brave, new, agile world of work and what it takes to shift mindsets, behaviours, structures and practices to enable success.

The New World of Work offers readers a thorough, but easy-to-understand. overview of: Agility in the workplace; Organisation challenges and responses to agility; The rise of the contingent workforce; Attracting and retaining talent; Driving teamwork and rewarding teams; Commensurate leadership and people practices; The key features and differences between robotics and artificial intelligence (AI); Work space design, colocation and how the HR function should respond And more!.

Offering numerous first-hand case studies, as well as hands-on, practical advice, The New World of Work will equip HR practitioners and business leaders to respond to these new agile structures and ways of working!

In the current economic environment, retention is one of the foremost concerns of all organisations. Leading organisations are citing retention as a key challenge and central objective; and no organisation can expect to survive if its retention game is not on point. A sound retention strategy results in lower staff turnover rates, which means: Reduced costs to the company, higher revenues and profitability, more productive staff and increased work morale. Retention is, in fact, a win-win deal for both parties – the employer and the employee. Retention Strategies is a complete how-to book to help you implement a sound retention strategy for today’s workplace. This book unpacks: The business case for retention strategies and the cost implications of high staff turnover; The role of rewards and remuneration: Remuneration only accounts for 25% of the stay decision, nevertheless it is a ticket to the retention game – it just has to be fair; Retention and engagement: Whilst engagement does not necessarily cause retention, there is some relationship; Remuneration options for retention and how each is typically used in organisations. This assumes that we have ticked all the other retention boxes like interesting work and great leadership; The Employee Value Proposition (EVP) and its link to retention and remuneration; Retention strategies for different generations. Retention Strategies is essential reading for anyone who manages or leads people currently or will lead them in the future. It will give you the tools to ensure people will want to work for you, follow you and stay with you. Retention Strategies is also intended for HR and reward executives, who are often responsible for crafting policy involving employment. This book may provide you with some ideas on what to include and exclude in your policies.

There are thousands of books and gurus on the subject of performance management. Yet, there are so few examples of where it is practised well.

Everyone knows what performance management is, have read the books, have heard the gurus, yet there are so few outstanding success stories. This book is different for the following reasons:

• It is based on years of personal experience in implementing hundreds of performance management systems in companies.
• Contributors to the book have actually done and experienced what they are writing about, with particular experience in emerging markets.
• It is underpinned by empirical research.
• It is practical and, for once, tells you how to do it, with no missing steps or information. There are tool kits, forms and check lists that can be used instantly.
• It is written in plain English with no bamboozling jargon, with many practical examples and templates that you can amend to suit your needs.

It also includes practical examples of different types of performance appraisal methodologies, namely the Outputs Approach; Traditional Approach; Balanced Scorecard and Multirater/360o.