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This course provides an overview for strategic employee benefits planning. First you'll learn what benefits your organization must offer based on federal employee benefits laws. Then you'll find out h ...

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An organization’s total rewards program is influenced by its economic, social, organizational, technical, and legal environments. This course will examine the first four. You will look at how differen ...

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Quality salary survey data is essential to a competitive compensation plan. There are many options for obtaining salary survey data: government surveys, internet data, published surveys, survey softwa ...

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Employee relocation planning is a Human Resources function that supports businesses that have operations in multiple locations and move their employees to meet workforce demands. This course teaches y ...

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Today, Human Resources has many options for the design and delivery of total rewards programs while effectively leveraging technology. The use of technology in total rewards management is critical in ...

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This course reviews 3 different types of approaches to salary increase planning: those based on salary surveys of competitive market rates, cost-of-living adjustments (COLA’s), and merit increases (su ...

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This course discusses the creation of sales compensation plans. It describes the steps you must take to set a plan up, including setting goals, choosing measures, and establishing formulas. Then it di ...

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This course teaches you how to select and administer variable pay plans for your organization. It describes the importance of variable pay and the organizations that are best suited for these types of ...

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Stock options are an important and popular component of executive compensation packages. This course teaches you how to place a value on stock options using the Black-Scholes method. We explain each s ...

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This course teaches you how to manage long-term international assignments based on the balance sheet approach for international assignees. Typically these assignments have a duration from one year to ...

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This course provides an overview of total rewards programs today. It discusses the difference between the total rewards programs of today’s organizations and those of the past focusing on core compens ...

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The focus of this course is the design and development of a single market-based salary structure. An organization may use such a salary structure to gain a competitive position to attract, retain, mot ...

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Business leaders of small or closely held companies can reduce their taxes through accumulated earnings and deferred compensation. This course looks at the complexities of how to do that. First, we ex ...

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Before establishing or adjusting a salary structure, Human Resources management must consider their organization’s internal and external labor market to make informed decisions about average job salar ...

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If your organization has branch offices, you will need to know what salary structure works best for them. In this course, you will learn how to determine whether your organization should apply its hea ...

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This course teaches you how to use regression analyses in total rewards compensation programs. First you will gain a background in distributions, standard deviation, standard error and correlation. Th ...

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This online math course teaches everyday mathematics used in total rewards compensation and benefits programs. We begin with a discussion of basic mathematics, including math order of operations and t ...

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When an organization has global operations, it needs an approach to total rewards, aligned with its business strategy, that ensures fair, equitable, market competitive, and legal programs in each coun ...

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Retirement plans are an important part of a total rewards benefits package. This course presents a broad overview of employee retirement plans. You’ll take a look at qualified and non-qualified retire ...

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Employers and human resources professionals need to know how federal laws govern employee compensation and benefits administration. This course will cover the salient laws such as those impacting pay, ...

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Pay-for-performance is an effective way to motivate employees to make greater contributions to the organization. To make the performance-reward connection, there has to be a way to compare employee co ...

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Base salary structures are management tools designed for compensation program administration. Ideally, a salary structure will provide management with guidance to provide compensation that is internal ...

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This course presents a basic overview of equity compensation. You will learn about stock options including ISOs and NSOs, restricted stock, restricted stock units, stock appreciation rights, phantom s ...

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This course teaches the mathematical skills you need to administer your organization’s wage structure and salary increases. We begin with a discussion of how to analyze salary survey data using averag ...

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When there is a need for an employee to work in another country there are many things that need to be considered. Global mobility encompasses a range of assignments from frequent international busines ...

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Employees in top management positions have compensation packages that are custom tailored to the position. This greater complexity is necessary because top management is responsible for the success of ...

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This course examines the reasons for gender pay discrimination in total rewards compensation programs and explains how to screen for and subsequently repair the pay gap. When the Equal Pay Act was fir ...

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This course reviews the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) federal income tax standards for reasonable compensation of stockholder-employees in closely held corporations. Reasonable compensation chal ...

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The top executives in an organization have the biggest impact on its performance and meeting stakeholder expectations. The compensation they receive is designed to align their efforts with those expec ...

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A commonly provided benefit in total rewards packages is life and disability insurance. This course presents a broad overview of individual and employer-provided life and disability insurance policies ...

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This course provides an overview of how intermediate sanctions (Internal Revenue Code § 4958) impact executive compensation arrangements. Intermediate sanctions are aimed at curbing abuse that occurs ...

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This course will teach you how to design a job analysis program to be a resource for developing well-written job descriptions. You will also learn how to write job descriptions that can be effectively ...

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This course compares three occupational classification systems: the Dictionary of Occupational Titles (DOT), O*NET and ERI’s enhanced Dictionary of Occupational Titles (eDOT). We look at the advantage ...

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Variable pay is an important component of a nonprofit organization’s compensation plan. This course teaches you how to design and deliver variable pay plans for nonprofit, tax-exempt organizations. Yo ...