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Compensation and Benefits: Introduction and Overview

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The following introduction provides for an overview about the different purposes of various compensation components as well as the link to strategy and setup of companies to design a compensation and benefits structure that suits their individual needs. It will also provide some thoughts about different target groups within the organization that may require different solutions even within one single organization.

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Eggers, W. (2015). Compensation and Benefits: Introduction and Overview. In: Zeuch, M. (eds) Handbook of Human Resources Management. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-40933-2_67-1

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