Start the new year off right by making sure that the compensation plan(s) in place at your company are the right ones for your company. Before you plan yet another new initiative, before you jump on the bandwagon for the "cutting edge" technique senior management wants you to try -- join us to take a look at what works, what doesn’t and why.

Lance Berger, President of LBA Associates and Editor of the Ninth Edition of

The Compensation Handbook, will share key trends identified by the book’s contributing authors including findings from focus groups he conducted with compensation professionals from around the country (including many from the Delaware Valley!).

We’ll examine the answers to some key questions:

• What significant compensation practices will emerge in the future?
• How can you tell what’s real and what’s a fad?
• What techniques can you use to evaluate whether your current compensation programs are working before you discard them in favor of what seems like the latest trend?

Following Mr. Berger’s presentation, Mary Ann Blankenship, Manager of Compensation & Benefits, PECO Energy and Robert Peliciari, Sr. Vice President, Human Resources, Elf Atochem, will discuss how their company’s have reacted to some of the key business trend identified by his studies. These include:

• development of strategies to respond to industry changes
• moving from an entitlement mentality to pay for performance
• increasing employee "buy-in" through an all employee stock plans
• globalization
• work-life issues

Each participant will receive a complimentary copy of Berger’s recent book, Deengineering the Corporation: Leading Growth From Within.

Registration & breakfast 8:30 a.m.

Program 9:00 – 11:30 a.m.

$40, members $60, nonmembers

1528 Walnut Street . Suite 420 . Philadelphia, PA 19102 . 215 735-9435 FAX 215 735-9479 . peba@peba.org

Please send this form with your check by Thursday, January 13, 2000 to:

PEBA, 1528 Walnut St., Suite 420, Phila., PA 19102. If you are unable to obtain a check by that date, please mail or fax (215 735-9479) your registration and plan to pay at the door. You must cancel 3 business days before the program to receive a refund or avoid billing.

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