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Designing a compensation system that motivates current employees and attracts new ones is the goal of library managers everywhere. This text has step-by-step strategies for developing a compensation plan tailored for libraries of every kind.

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• Figures(p. v)
• Worksheets(p. vi)
• Acknowledgments(p. vii)
• Introduction(p. ix)
• 1 Compensation Program Objectives(p. 1)
• Your Compensation Program(p. 1)
• Compensation and the Human Resources System(p. 2)
• Total Compensation(p. 2)
• Your Reasons for Undertaking a Compensation Study(p. 3)
• Getting Started(p. 4)
• 2 Preliminary Planning(p. 9)
• Commitment and Involvement(p. 9)
• Communications(p. 14)
• Engage Consultants--or Not?(p. 15)
• Committee Approach--or Not?(p. 17)
• 3 Job Analysis(p. 20)
• Definition(p. 21)
• Uses(p. 21)
• Data to Collect(p. 21)
• How to Collect the Information(p. 21)
• Legal Compliance(p. 38)
• 4 Job Descriptions(p. 40)
• Multipurpose Studies(p. 40)
• How to Draft the Job Description(p. 41)
• Employee and Supervisory Review and Buy-in(p. 47)
• Final Approval(p. 49)
• 5 Context and Compensation Philosophy(p. 51)
• Interview Questions for Senior Management and the Board(p. 51)
• Compensation Philosophy(p. 56)
• Compensation Policy Design Components(p. 57)
• 6 Point Factor Job Evaluation System for Internal Equity(p. 62)
• Job Evaluation(p. 62)
• Designing and Applying a Point Factor System(p. 64)
• Librarians with Faculty Status(p. 75)
• 7 Market Pricing(p. 77)
• Step 1 Establish a Time Line(p. 78)
• Step 2 Select Benchmark Positions to Survey(p. 78)
• Step 3 Target Survey Participants(p. 80)
• Step 4 Decide if You Will Ask about Pay Practices or Benefits(p. 81)
• Step 5 Design the Survey(p. 82)
• Step 6 Use Other Market Data Sources(p. 85)
• Step 7 Follow up and Verify Responses(p. 86)
• Step 8 Analyze and Adjust Data(p. 87)
• Step 9 Prepare and Send Reports(p. 91)
• 8 Salary Structure Design(p. 92)
• Developing Pay Ranges(p. 93)
• Drafting the Structure(p. 101)
• Costing the Salary Structure(p. 106)
• 9 Implementation(p. 109)
• Salary Administration(p. 109)
• Postproject Communications(p. 115)
• 10 Trends(p. 116)
• The Need for Change(p. 116)
• Recruitment and Retention Trends(p. 119)
• Alternative Compensation Plans(p. 120)
• Successful Implementation of a New Compensation System(p. 123)
• Appendix Project Work Plan and Time Line(p. 125)
• Glossary(p. 127)
• Index(p. 131)

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Library Journal Review

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 (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.