A New Perspective on Employee Benefits: Using Benefits Strategically to Create a Sustainable Competitive Advantage

Although Strategic Human Resource Management (SHRM) has advanced considerably since the late 1980s, scholarly focus has tended to cluster around talent management, performance, and compensation. Yet employee benefits—despite accounting for nearly a third of total labor costs—have remained surprisingly peripheral in strategic conversations.

A New Perspective on Employee Benefits addresses this long standing gap. Drawing on foundational SHRM and compensation strategy research, this book bring...