{"product_id":"compensation-rewarding-and-retaining-talent-california-edition-9798996378128","title":"Compensation: Rewarding and Retaining Talent: California Edition","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Thomas J. Norman Ph. D.\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Thomas J. Norman\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Thomas J. Norman\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Human Resources \u0026amp; Personnel Management\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe first compensation textbook written for California's distinctive legal and labor environment - fully updated through 2026.\u003c\/b\u003e Most compensation textbooks treat pay as paperwork: a set of forms, formulas, and compliance boxes to check. \u003ci\u003eCompensation: Rewarding and Retaining Talent - California Edition\u003c\/i\u003e treats pay as a strategic system that decides who an organization can hire, who it can keep, and who it can develop into its next generation of leaders. Built around the \u003cb\u003eDART model\u003c\/b\u003e - Direction and Deployment, Assessment and Attraction, Rewarding and Retaining, and Teaching and Transforming of talent - this textbook brings California's most demanding pay laws, the contemporary coaching and continuous-performance-management literature, and current real-world cases into one coherent framework. \u003cb\u003eWhat sets this textbook apart: \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eCalifornia focus you won't find elsewhere.\u003c\/b\u003e Detailed treatment of SB 1162 pay transparency, the California Equal Pay Act, AB 1066 agricultural overtime (fully implemented in 2025), Prop 22, pay-data reporting, and prevailing-wage rules. California Spotlight sidebars on CalPERS, the San Diego SDCERS pension crisis, the City of Bell scandal, and Long Beach's Olympic-Wage measures under Mayor Rex Richardson (CSUDH '20). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eCurrent cases through 2026.\u003c\/b\u003e What Followed sidebars trace Wells Fargo's decade-long reform arc (Federal Reserve asset cap lifted June 2025), Novartis's compensation-channel rewiring (ethics-scored variable pay, Sandoz spin-off), the VA wait-time scandal's mixed reform outcome, and the Purdue Pharma settlement (Harrington v. Purdue Pharma, U.S. Supreme Court, 2024). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eContemporary coaching thread.\u003c\/b\u003e Doerr's OKRs and CFRs, Brown's Daring Greatly, Rising Strong, and Dare to Lead, Sinek's Start with Why and The Infinite Game, Duckworth's Grit, Buckingham and Clifton's strengths-based development, Clifton and Harter's It's the Manager, Bono and Froh's gratitude research, Guidara's Unreasonable Hospitality, and Lafley and Martin's Playing to Win - woven into the chapters where they matter most. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor voice students remember.\u003c\/b\u003e Seven From-the-Field sidebars from the author's career at Procter \u0026amp; Gamble (Beauty Care, 1992), US Bank (Minneapolis, late 1990s), Sun Microsystems (Silicon Valley HR salons), and Cal State Dominguez Hills - illustrating compensation principles in lived practice. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eBuilt for the semester or quarter.\u003c\/b\u003e Twelve chapters, each with learning objectives, key-terms glossary, discussion questions, applied California case, and APA-formatted references. Glossary of 200+ terms; alphabetical page-number index; Index by Chapter for rapid navigation. \u003cb\u003eWho this book is for: \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eUndergraduate students\u003c\/b\u003e in compensation, total rewards, or human resource management courses - accessible prose, contemporary examples, and a clear DART framework that organizes the material. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eMBA students\u003c\/b\u003e seeking a strategic-management lens on compensation - the front-matter \"A Note on Sources\" distinguishes peer-reviewed scholarship from practitioner literature, equipping students to evaluate claims rigorously. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublic-sector and HR practitioners\u003c\/b\u003e in California's public agencies, school districts, healthcare systems, and tech-sector firms who need a working manager's reference on the state's compensation environment. \u003cb\u003eAbout the Author: \u003c\/b\u003e Thomas J. Norman, Ph.D., is Professor of Management at California State University, Dominguez Hills. He earned his A.B. at Harvard University and his M.A. and Ph.D. in Human Resources and Industrial Relations at the University of Minnesota. Before academia, he held HR and management positions at Procter \u0026amp; Gamble, US Bank, and Sun Microsystems. \u003cb\u003eInstructor resources available: \u003c\/b\u003e Test bank (888 tagged items across 12 chapters), 12 chapter slide decks (ADA-accessible), film-clip guide, lecture transcripts, and sample syllabi. Contact the author directly.","brand":"Thomas J. 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