Patricia K. Zingheim, Ph.D
Pat founded Schuster-Zingheim and Associates, Inc. with Jay Schuster in 1985. She advises a wide range of companies on total pay and other rewards.
Pat received WorldatWork's 2006 Keystone Award, the Association's highest honour, for her contributions to the total reward profession's body of knowledge. With Jay, she joins only 17 previous recipients in earning this honour.
A recognised expert on the role of pay in accelerating company growth and bottomline performance, with Jay she is co-author of Pay People Right! Breakthrough Strategies to Create Great Companies (Jossey-Bass, 2000) and The New Pay: Linking Employee and Organizational Performance (Jossey-Bass, 1996), acknowledged as a keystone work in linking pay with organisational effectiveness.
Pat has written numerous articles for business and professional journals and magazines as well as book chapters. She speaks throughout the world on how companies can best align rewards with their business goals.
Pat is frequently quoted in management literature, including such publications as Fortune, Wall Street Journal, Across the Board, Working Woman, and Harvard Management Update. Pat has appeared on CNBC, CNNfn, NBC, and other business talk shows. She was named in The Guru Guide: The Best Ideas of the Top Management Thinkers as a motivation and pay guru.
She earned her M.A. and Ph.D. from Ohio State University and A.B. from the University of Michigan.
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