This document discusses compensation management and its key components. It outlines the objectives of compensation as recruiting and retaining employees, increasing morale, determining wages, and rewarding performance. Compensation has both monetary elements like base pay, bonuses, and perks, as well as non-monetary elements like benefits, dignity from work, and relationships with coworkers. The importance and factors affecting compensation are also examined such as job analysis and description, cost of living, the economy, and an organization's ability to pay.