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What are the paid-subscription research reports?

Imagine being able to suggest professional and reliable ideas and solutions appropriate to all the reward management issues that regularly crop up. Ideas and comment that really impress with their relevance and content.

This is where e-reward research reports can help. As part of an annual subscription, you'll receive a collection of 11 case studies, surveys and toolkits. For an additional fee, paid-for subscribers may access our digital archive which contains every research report we have published.

In June 2002, e-reward launched its ongoing original research programme. Its purpose is to advance the theory and practice of reward management among UK practitioners and others with an interest in how employees are rewarded at work.

On a practical level, this research offers so much more. We see it as your own up-to-date instruction manual to a better way to work in reward. Our research findings are published, in full, in a series of monthly research reports, available on an annual subscription. This extensive body of research comprises a collection of case studies, surveys and toolkits on contemporary reward issues. These highly praised reports are available on paid-subscription only.

1. Case studies of leading UK organisations
Each year, as part of your annual paid subscription to the research reports, you receive a set of in-depth case studies with document extracts providing you with access to reliable, practical expertise and experience so that you can develop more effective reward strategies in your own organisation.

Our emphasis is on how leading professionals are putting theory into practice in the workplace, and case studies are carefully chosen to highlight the latest thinking in reward management.

Case studies provide:

• exclusive insights into why the approach was taken

• what the organisation was trying to achieve

• how the implementation or change process was undertaken

• who drove the initiative

• how long it took

• what resources were required

• how effective it has been

• the lessons learnt.

2. Surveys of key reward issues
As part of its ongoing research programme, e-reward has undertaken a series major in-depth, state-of-play surveys, examining key aspects of the UK reward management agenda:

• bonus schemes (2006)

• contingent pay (2004)

• grade and pay structures (2007)

• job evaluation (2007)

• performance management (2005)

• UK Reward Census (2008).

The overall aim of our surveys was to find out how these practices were being developed and operated. But the main issue addressed was not how the basic processes and practices work - this is now well known - but how to make them work well. But perhaps the most fascinating and valuable outcomes are the practical comments and suggestions about the design, development, implementation and maintenance made by respondents, which we reproduce in full.

The result of this research has been a benchmarking exercise which we believe provides invaluable decision-making information about these practices in the UK today. Subscribers to the research reports receive at least one survey per year.

3. Toolkits
The final element of your annual paid subscription to the research reports is a set of toolkits. The purpose of our "how to" toolkits is to provide practical advice and guidance to anyone in an organisation which wants to review an existing practice (take, for example, job evaluation, performance management, total reward statements, market data and bonus schemes) or develop new ones.

You can use these toolkits to understand:

• the aims and features of the featured reward practice

• why organisations introduce such practices

• evidence regarding their prevalence in the UK

• key characteristics and components

• what are the pros and cons

• key ingredients for success

• strategies available for design, development, implementation and maintenance.

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Digital archive

E-reward’s digital archive contains every research report right back to the first issue in June 2002. This extensive body of work comprises an impressive collection of case studies, surveys and toolkits on contemporary reward issues.

How much does it cost?

The one-off joining fee to access the digital archive ranges from £300 to £900, depending on the number of users in your organisation. It is available only to paid-for subscribers of the research reports and is payable in addition to your annual subscription rate.

During the period of your annual subscription you will be able to download and print as many of the back issues as you like.

Once you have paid your membership fee for the digital archive, you will not be charged to access the archive in subsequent years, if you opt to renew your annual subscription. 

If you decide not to renew your annual subscription, your access to the digital archive will end.

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