Shaping Pay in Europe

Contents: Mari Kira/Elizabeth Neu: Introduction: Shaping Pay - Ben J.M. Emans: Pay: What Is It About? - Xavier Baeten/An Verbruggen: Pay Instruments and Pay Systems - Ben J.M. Emans: A Tree-like Representation of Essential Pay Policy Characteristics - Xavier Baeten: Stakeholder Perspectives on Pay - Xavier Baeten: The Employer's Perspective on Pay: Strategic Pay - Ben J.M. Emans: The Employee's Perspective on Pay: Equity, Need, Justice, Culture and Categorisation - Guy Vernon/Renée Anderson/Xavier Baeten/Elizabeth Neu: Unions, Employers' Associations and Collective Bargaining over Pay - Conny H. Antoni: Pay Systems, Strategic Alignment, and Outcomes: European Data and National Differences - Conny H. Antoni/Ansgar Berger: Pay Systems, Strategic Alignment, and Pay Outcomes: Results of Europe-wide Research - Conny H. Antoni: Pay Systems and Pay Outcomes in Different European Countries - Xavier Baeten/An Verbruggen: Pay Systems and Outcomes in Belgium - Kiisa Hulkko/Matti Vartiainen: Pay Systems and Outcomes in Finland - Conny H. Antoni/Ansgar Berger: Pay Systems and Outcomes in Germany - Ben J.M. Emans: Pay Systems and Outcomes in The Netherlands - Elizabeth Neu: Pay Systems and Outcomes in Sweden - Ian Kessler: Pay Systems and Outcomes in the UK - Conny H. Antoni: European Case Studies - Conny H. Antoni/Xavier Baeten/Ansgar Berger/Kiisa Hulkko/An Verbruggen: Case Studies - National Companies - Xavier Baeten/Conny H. Antoni/Ben J.M. Emans/An Verbruggen: Case Studies - Multinational Company - Conny H. Antoni: Pay Systems in Europe, Their Strategic Alignment, and Outcomes: A Summary - Conny H. Antoni/Xavier Baeten/Ben J.M. Emans/Mari Kira: Conclusions and Discussion.

The Editors: Conny Herbert Antoni has a B.A. of Kalamazoo College, MI, USA, and a Ph.D. from the University of Mannheim. He is the professor for Work and Organizational Psychology at the University of Trier. His research interests include reward and performance management, socio-technical system design and organizational development.
Xavier Baeten holds a university degree in Applied Economics (Ghent University) and a special degree in Tax (Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School). He is a manager at Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School, and responsible for the school's activities on reward management.
Ben J.M. Emans is an associate professor in HRM and Organizational Behaviour at the faculty of Management and Organization of the University of Groningen. His research interests and publications are all in the field of organizational behaviour.
Mari Kira has a M.Sc. and Lic.Sc. degrees from the Helsinki University of Technology, Finland, and a Ph.D. degree from the Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden. She has also worked as a European Commission Marie Curie Fellow at University of Kassel, Germany. Her research interests include sustainability in work organizations and reward system development.

«Backing up theories explained with the aid of empirical data, the book is a convincing attempt to study how pay systems are shaped in Europe in line with the values and hopes of the different actors concerned.» (TBa, Bulletin Quotidien Europe)