Developing a Compensation Plan for Your Library - Softcover

American Library Association

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0838908160 ISBN 13: 9780838908167

Publisher: ALA Editions, 2002

Synopsis

Describes how to develop a library compensation plan, providing the steps to creating a plan from conducting salary surveys to designing a pay plan, and includes such topics as executive salary, pay equity, and employee communication.

About this title

About the Author

Paula M. Singer is founder and president of the Singer Group, a consulting firm providing compensation, strategic planning, organizational development, and change management services to clients in the public and private sectors. She is recognized nationwide as an expert in developing compensation systems for libraries and other nonprofits and has served on two labor organizations. Singer is also Associate Faculty in the Organization Development/Human Resources graduate program at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, and in the Human Resources Development distance doctoral program at Nova Southeastern University, Fort Lauderdale. She received a master's degree in Administrative Sciences from Johns Hopkins and master's and doctoral degrees in Organization Development and Human/Organizational Systems from the Fielding Institute, Santa Barbara.

From Library Journal

Filling a void in the library management literature, this readable manual by a consultant with experience in helping large and small library systems design and facilitate compensation plans ably guides administrators through the steps involved, from the decision to undertake a compensation study through implementation and administration of a compensation program. In addition to serving as a how-to, the book includes thoughtful discussions of the philosophy of compensation plans; issues and trends in compensation; and the importance of tailoring any plan to the particular library and its mission, environment, and culture. As the author tells us in the introduction, "The design and implementation of compensation and pay plans are as much an art as a science." Both art and science are respected here. Highly recommended for anyone responsible for human resources in libraries. Lyn Hopper, Chestatee Regional Lib., Dawsonville, GA
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Edition details

• Publisher: ALA Editions
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0838908160
• ISBN 13: 9780838908167
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 144