Human Resources Compensation: Perennial Challenge
For the better part of the twentieth century, school personnel, school boards, and special interests groups have debated the matter of fair and adequate compensation for school system employees, offering views about the merits and demerits of the single salary schedule, benefits, merit pay, comparable worth, pay for performance, pay equity, pay levels, pay structure, pay forn1, rewards, incentives, and union influence on compensation. Yet the problems involved in developing and executing a compensation plan so that both the school system and its employees achieve their goals remain unsettled.