Best Practices
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Best Practices in Succession Planning
Your leadership defines your organization's strategic vision and long-term success — the ability to identify, develop and retain your internal pipeline of talent is critical in planning your future leadership strategy and building a strong bench to be competitive in today's marketplace.Written by industry experts, the Best Practices in Succession Planning white paper provides new insight and in-depth commentary focused on grooming your workforce and identifying tomorrow's leaders. Topics include: • Managing the impact of business change on succession planning – how do changes in your business strategy and the changing economic conditions impact your succession planning?• Using personality assessment to identify, develop, and retain future leaders – viewing traditional forms of data in the context of personality to gain a comprehensive view of potential candidatesDownload our Best Practices in Succession Planning white paper today! It's FREE; all you have to do is register.
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Leading the Way in Staffing
Social media has pushed recruiting into new, unchartered territory, and companies are scrambling to capitalize on the benefits. But what's the best course of action? As resident of a leading RPO, Terry Terhark has seen firsthand how companies can use social media to make recruiting personal, interactive and fun.
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Best Practices in Performance Management
Performance management is a dynamic process, aligned hand-in-glove with productivity and long-term business success.
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Best Practices in Employee Screening
Balancing the demands for excellence in every hire; keeping current on employment legislation and regulations; building a qualified talent pipeline—with so much riding on talent, it's critical to stay one step ahead with fresh staffing and recruiting strategies to ensure proven results.Written by leading experts and respected industry analysts on the Best Practices in Employee Screening, they provide new insight and in-depth commentary focused on positioning your workforce to deliver results today and for the future. Topics include:• Unleash the power of the young workforce in today's workplace• Get ahead of high application volumes with effective automated screening • Keep current on the top trends in Hiring Process Management (HCM)Download our Best Practices in Employee Screening to learn how leading companies are integrating new strategies and implementing advanced candidate screening programs with insight on the hottest topics and talent management strategies to stay one step ahead.Click on the download button for a copy of the Best Practices in Employee Screening white paper today! It's FREE; all you have to do is register.
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Leading the Way in Training & Development
Maximizing Every MoveDiscover the Strategic Game-Changer: Leadership CoachingFor many organizations, rebounding from the recession is like playing a serious game of chess. The wrong business moves can set you back; the right ones can move you forward; and each decision needs to be strategically timed to keep you three steps ahead of your competition.Click here for a copy of the Leading the Way in Training & Development today! It's FREE; all you have to do is register.
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Leading the Way in Testing & Assessment
Solve Three Key Problems with Personality Assessments —and Make Your Testing Program Work for You
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Best Practices in HR Technology
Advances in technology continue to change at lightning speed, strengthening HR departments with tremendous power and reach. In this complex business environment, the demand to incorporate workforce management tools designed to drive a business' success has never been greater. Choosing the right HR technology solution and leveraging it effectively requires a well-thought out strategy to ensure an overall return on your investment. Written by leading experts and respected industry analysts on the Best Practices in HR Technology, they provide new insight and in-depth commentary focused on driving results for long-term sustainability. Learn how HR technology can improve operational efficiency—a prerequisite for long-term success—and streamline critical enterprise functions to deliver real business results. This Best Practices White Paper provides tangible examples of organizations already using innovative HR technology systems and services to leverage your company's most valuable resource—its top workforce—to help your organization stay one step ahead.
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Best Practices for Diversity Training
Here are five of the best practices based on research and companies’ experiences.
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Best Practices in Benefits
With a vast array of employee needs and expectations on the table, initiatives to save your company money while offering creative new benefits opportunities continue to mount with equal pressure.Strategically managing employee benefits and benefit dollars while keeping your best employees healthy, productive and committed to your organization are vital to your company’s viability and long-term success.
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Special Report on RPO: Tech Takes Over RPO Marketplace
The amount of recruitment process outsourcing technology available today is staggering—and for RPOs, it’s either keep up or risk being left behind.
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Best Practices in Compensation
Compensation and its interconnectivity to talent and performance management are, quite simply, key to organizational success.Innovative compensation strategies require more than just pulling market data and implementing ideas-- it requires a closer look at effective pay-for-performance models, investing in your company's ability to execute effective strategies to their full potential, and strategically designing effective programs to outperform the competition in this global market.
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Special Report on Employee Engagement Losing Lifeblood
Cash-strapped companies haven't paid much attention to employee engagement since the recession dawned. Some are now starting to feel the results of that neglect, experts say.
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Best Practices in Recruiting & Candidate Sourcing
Securing the best in talent is tough work. Do you have the best sources and recruiting information to fill your organization with a high-performance workforce when the opportunity strikes? With leaner recruiting departments and an increasingly complicated talent search process, keeping your competitive edge in this area is critical. Learn how several leading companies recruit by leveraging high-tech, high-touch resources while building relationships within the right communities and refining the hiring process to find top talent quickly and effectively. Download our Best Practices in Recruiting & Candidate Sourcing white paper, today, with information from the experts – examine the best path to fill your organization with top candidates to achieve a high-performance workforce for companies of all sizes and industries, with proven insight. Whether you are considering a newly designed candidate sourcing plan or are well on your way in the process with a long-established strategy, these leading companies offer new thinking and proven solutions in this fast changing environment. Securing the best in talent is tough work.
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Special Report on Social Media: You Can't Take Your Online Contacts With You ... or Can You?
As companies rush into the worlds of LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter, some are discovering sticky issues when employees engaged in corporate social media activity depart.
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Best Practices in Talent Management
Losing sight of today’s cutting-edge practices is the fastest path to being left in the dust -- especially now as companies (including your competitors) look to gain greater advantage with tremendous speed. Do you have the latest information to stay ahead? Effective talent management requires strategic thinking and it touches every organization. But how do you continue to maximize your company’s workforce to drive business results for the future? Download our Best Practices in Talent Management white paper and find out how six leading companies can help. Learn about road-tested strategies for executing change in a fast changing environment; evaluating and determining the right assessment tools and techniques in performance management, recruitment, and training and development; and rethinking basic strategies to deliver successful outcomes. Ensure that your talent management initiatives are shaped and implemented to deliver long-term value. Plus, get proven best practices and practical advice from industry experts! Learn more on how to maximize your company's workforce and build a successful business today and drive business results for the future.
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Special Report on Leadership Development: Corporate Leaders Train in Fire Drills and Funny Skills
A successful leader thinks outside the box on occasion. To tap into that mindset, some leadership programs are taking top talent out of the office and into a burning building, an improv or concert stage, or even a beach in Normandy.
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Best Practices in Training & Development
It's no secret: Effective training and development is a crucial investment strategy. Your company's training and development investment can yield significant returns and become a key driver in sustaining your organization's competitive advantage with proven bottom-line results. Learn more in this Best Practices in Training & Development white paper about road-tested strategies in leadership development and employee learning management systems as well as best practices in virtual classroom training and measuring the true value of learning in achieving business. It's valuable insight you can use today for your company's greatest competitive advantage. Whether you are introducing a new training and development plan or you are fully entrenched in the process, this white paper provides valuable content for companies of all sizes and industries focused on high performance, long-term value and big picture goals. Written by leading experts and respected industry analysts, this white paper provides valuable insight and proven strategies focused on bottom-line business results.
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Special Report: Creating a Culture of Wellness Helps Companies Tighten Their Belts
To reduce health costs and boost productivity, Blue Shield of California has shaken things up with its ‘Wellvolution’ program. The company redesigned employee cafeterias and added ‘walkstations’ to some cubicles, enabling staffers to work out while they work. Like Blue Shield, some companies are becoming more creative with their wellness strategies.
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Best Practices in Succession Planning
With four generations working side-by-side in the workplace, age diversity is a complicated matter. Addressing these evolving and complex problems—while balancing the needs of today’s workforce with those of tomorrow’s workforce—requires organizations to stay one step ahead. Regardless of company size or industry, aligning your organization’s competencies to overall strategic goals means preparing and leveraging the right bench talent for the future. Successful succession planning focuses on the imminent need to identify, assess and develop talent to ensure continuity of leadership at all levels in the organization. Do you have the latest information you need to prepare your organization for future success? With proven strategies, fresh insight and in-depth commentary from today’s leading experts, download our Best Practices in Succession Planning white paper to learn more. What can you do today to effectively identify and monitor various talent pools within your organization to match the future needs of the business with the bench strength of available talent focused on results and long-term sustainability?
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Best Practices in Recruitment Process Outsourcing
It’s no secret: In this complicated business environment, organizations continue to redefine their business practices, reassess their recruiting needs and face ongoing challenges related to overall talent management. As new strategies evolve, where does outsourcing fit within the new staffing "norm" and what are the keys to capitalizing on these talent partnerships as a foundation for long-term success? Uncover the myths and truths. Download our Best Practices in Outsourcing white paper to understand where the business opportunities are as well as what you should expect from an RPO partner, focused on bottom-line business results and long-term success. Arm yourself with this critical information on outsourcing during this war for top talent, so that you can provide strategic direction with a big picture perspective. Written by leading experts and respected industry analysts, this white paper provides fresh insight and in-depth commentary and analysis focused looking at what others have learned in outsourcing partnership with proven results for long-term success.
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Special Report on HR Technology: The Thought Police
Some companies offer software to sniff out social media posts, but such programs raise the question: Does Big Brother belong in the workplace?
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Best Practices in Talent Management
Talent Intelligence, Talent Investment, Human Capital Solutions… You’ll find the keys to success by getting past the buzzwords and accessing today’s best practices and industry insight with clarity and ease. Do you have the latest information to take your program to the next level and deliver results? Download our Best Practices in Talent Management white paper and find out how six leading companies can help. Learn about proven best practices to revitalize current approaches in a performance culture; pick rising stars who can effectively lead in the future; take the performance review process to the next level; and rethink your recruitment, succession planning and talent forecasting strategies with a unified approach to deliver successful outcomes for your organization’s long-term competitive advantage. Ensure that your talent management programs are shaped and implemented to deliver sustainable value with proven insight and practical advice from industry experts! Learn more on how to maximize your company’s workforce and build a successful business today and drive business results for the future.
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Special Report on Training: More to Learn
U.S. companies regained their appetite for employee development in 2010, but a new report shows their tastes are changing.
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Special Report on Globalization: The Globe-Trotters
Companies look to cut costs by rejiggering perks for international assignments, shortening foreign stays and targeting younger employees and empty nesters.
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Best Practices in Talent Management
Having a desire to build your talent management strategy is not enough… How you increase your organizational readiness, develop effective processes and take your talent management programs to the next level is where you’ll find your key to success. Do you have the latest information to deliver such results? Download our Best Practices in Talent Management white paper and find out how six leading companies can help. Learn about road-tested strategies for developing talent analytics; effective learning, performance and compensation management tools and practices; global opportunities for your contingent workforce; and rethink your recruitment, succession planning and talent forecasting strategies to deliver successful outcomes for your organization’s long–term competitive advantage. Ensure that your talent management programs are shaped and implemented to deliver sustainable value. Plus, get proven best practices and practical advice from industry experts! Learn more on how to maximize your company’s workforce and build a successful business today and drive business results for the future.
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Special Report on Compensation: Cracks in the Ice
Employers are poised to start the thawing process—after a couple of years of frozen salaries and frugal compensation policies—by offering pay raises of roughly 3 percent next year.
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Best Practices in Employee Screening
Balancing the demands for excellence in every hire; keeping current on employment legislation and regulations; building a qualified talent pipeline—with so much riding on talent for long-term success, organizations are demanding fresh talent management strategies for real business results. In this complex environment, updating your employee screening practices while balancing the costs and risks associated with bad hires and outdated practices with the latest developments in employment legislation means staying one step ahead. Written by leading experts and respected industry analysts on the Best Practices in Employee Screening, they provide new insight and in-depth commentary focused on positioning your workforce to deliver results today and for the future. Download our Best Practices in Employee Screening to learn how leading companies are integrating new strategies and implementing advanced candidate screening programs with insight on the hottest topics and talent management strategies to stay one step ahead.
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Special Report on Contingent Staffing Contingency Plan
In the second quarter, staffing agency revenue hit $16.9 billion, a 33 percent increase over a year earlier, but experts say overall weakness in the economy could hurt future growth.
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Best Practices in HR Technology
Advances in technology continue to strengthen HR departments with incredible power to effectively align talent management to company-wide goals and overall organizational strategies. In this complex business environment, the demand to incorporate workforce management tools designed to drive a business' success has never been greater. Choosing the right HR technology solution and leveraging it effectively requires a well-thought out strategy to ensure an overall return on your investment. Written by leading experts and respected industry analysts on the Best Practices in HR Technology, they provide new insight and in-depth commentary focused on driving results for long-term sustainability. Learn how HR technology can improve operational efficiency—a prerequisite for long-term success—and streamline critical enterprise functions to deliver real business results. This Best Practices White Paper provides tangible examples of organizations already using innovative HR technology systems and services to leverage your company’s most valuable resource—its top workforce—to help your organization stay one step ahead.
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Special Report on Rewards & Recognition Getting Personal
With budgets remaining tight, more employers are focusing on nonfinancial rewards and customizing recognition at the local level to motivate and retain top performers.
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Special Report on Health Benefits Butting In
More employers are hitting workers in the pocketbook by adopting financial penalties to curb risky health behaviors such as smoking or, conversely, using incentives to encourage healthy habits like losing weight. Experts say careful program design is key to avoiding legal and privacy issues.
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Special Report on Employee Relocation Strategic Moves
Relocation is now viewed as part of long-term talent development, but the housing crash is forcing employers to offer greater assistance—including detailed cost analyses of moves—to get workers on board.
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Special Report on HR Technology In SaaS Battle, Customers Win
Options abound for employers as vendors seek to carve out new pieces of the 'software as a service' market for HR technology.
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TOOL Immigration Issues for U.S. and U.K. Employers
For many employers in the United States and United Kingdom, talented workers from overseas are vital to the continued success of their business. Because of the intricacies of immigration law in both jurisdictions, employers should proceed carefully and obtain sound legal advice each and every time a non-domestic worker is hired, retained, transferred or even terminated.
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Special Report on Training and Development The Leadership Formula
By surveying management at companies performing at varying levels in a number of industries and crunching the numbers, researchers have developed a data-driven model for what constitutes good leadership and how to develop it.
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Special Report on HR Technology Tracking the Contingents
With the use of temps and other contingent workers on the rise, more companies are adopting software to control labor costs and better manage this segment of their workforces.
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Special Report on HR Outsourcing Why You Should Care About Engagement in Your Outsourcer's Workforce
As clients seek greater efficiency and innovation in HR outsourcing, vendors are striving to build a more engaged workforce that not only provides great service, but generates smart ideas.
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TOOL Connecting Low-Skill Workers With Better Opportunities
A Working Poor Families Project report profiles how states can shape policies and program efforts to boost the supply of skilled workers by connecting low-income, low-skilled adults to construction-related skills development programs, and increase employer commitment and demand for hiring these workers and paying them family-sustaining wages.
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TOOL Six Tips for Establishing Successful Corporate Social Networks
Research firm Gartner warns that more than 70 percent of IT-dominated social media initiatives will fail by 2012. Here, social media veterans provide tips for launching effective social networks.
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TOOL Unemployment Insurance Tracker
The tracker, created by the investigative news site ProPublica, uses near-real-time data on state revenues and the benefits they pay out, estimating how long the stressed state trust funds will hold up.
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Special Report on Background CheckingBurden of Proof
Employers will soon be asked to provide empirical evidence for screening and hiring practices based on assumptions about workplace criminality—but they’ll be hard-pressed to find it.
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TOOL Employer Guide to Educating Employees About Benefits Theyve Earned
The downloadable guide, created by Corporate Voices for Working Families, provides detailed information about the earned income tax credit, child tax credit, Medicaid and other benefits. Employers can use it to help low-wage workers take advantage of benefits available to them.
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TOOL Free E-book on Continuing Education in the Health Professions
Redesigning Continuing Education in the Health Professions discusses ideas for a better system through a comprehensive approach of continuing professional development. The book also offers principles to guide the creation of a national continuing education institute.
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Retool Your Layoff Process Now to Improve Hiring Later
By retooling the way layoffs are managed now, you may boost your future recruitment, particularly of Millennials.
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TOOL Blogs on Wage-and-Hour Issues
To keep pace with developments in wage-and-hour law, several law firms have launched blogs on the topic, with attorneys writing about the latest cases and trends.
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TOOL Communicating the Value Proposition for High-Deductible Plans
Employers and their agents should keep educational efforts simple and multifaceted, and should assume the long view.
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TOOL Leading After Layoffs
This e-book is designed for managers and HR leaders who are looking for ways to re-energize and align their people in these tough economic times.
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Case Study Providing Quality Technology Workers in an Instant
In its eighth year, Instant Technology provides technology staffing to Fortune 1,000 companies as well as small and medium-size firms. Its clients are in a number of industries, including advertising, airline/aviation, banking/financial, consulting, consumer goods, education, entertainment, food, health care, legal, manufacturing, printing/publishing, retail, telecommunications and travel.
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Special Report on Pension & Retirement Benefits Playing Catch-Up
The market plunge and boomers’ arrival at retirement age have sponsors of defined-contribution plans scrambling to get workers to save more and prevent them from staying in their jobs too long. Three major trends are on employers’ side.
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TOOL: Database on Aging and Work
The Sloan Center on Aging & Work at Boston College has made its online fact database public. The database has 1,700 statistics on workforce trends for employers, scholars, policy analysts and legislators.
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Special Report Compensation & Salary ForecastMoney Talks
Ongoing salary cuts and freezes send a sour message that threatens performance and productivity. Compensation experts recommend restoring base pay and merit increases to pre-recession levels as quickly as business results allow.
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TOOL Sample Anti-Discrimination Policy
The document, from law firm Littler Mendelson and compliance training company ELT, covers prohibited discrimination, reporting procedures, retaliation and enforcement.
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Special Report on Contingent StaffingThe Future of Contingent Staffing Could Be Like Something Out of a Movie
Companies are likely to make wider use of staffing methods similar to those practiced by the film industry. Indeed, in a recent study 73 percent of employers said they anticipate some level of increase in their contingent workforce by late 2010, with nearly 35 percent planning increases of 50 percent or more.
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TOOL IRS Information on Using Independent Contractors
The IRS provides employers with a resource page containing information on properly determining whether workers are independent contractors or employees. Here are some highlights from it, including a 160-page IRS training manual on determining independent contractor status.
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TOOL A Blog That Covers Workplace Privacy, Data Management and Security
The blog from law firm Jackson Lewis tracks issues in all three areas.
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TOOL Useful Documents for OSHA's Recordkeeping National Emphasis Program
The agency began the yearlong program in September 2009, subjecting employers in certain industries to comprehensive injury and illness records reviews. Here are links to documents that can assist employers in preparing for these rigorous site visits.
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TOOL Purchaser's Guide to Value-Based Plan Design
The National Business Coalition on Health has developed a guide for employers that want to design health benefit plans that help people stay healthy.
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TOOL Health Observances for November
The Wellness Council of America notes that November is American Diabetes Month, a good time for employers and employees alike to become aware of the toll that the disease takes.
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Special Report on HR TechnologyTalent Planning for the Times
After the chaotic cutting of the latest recession, many employers are looking at workforce planning software to provide more stability in meeting both their short- and long-term talent needs.
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TOOL Benefits Benchmarking and Trends
A benchmarking tool and a benefits trends study allow employers to compare and evaluate their potential benefit offerings.
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TOOL Assessing H-1B Fraud
A 2008 report found that 20 percent of H-1B filings contain technical violations or are simply fraudulent. The report has led to a crackdown on H-1B employers.
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TOOL Health Observances for October
Employers and employees can visit Welcoa’s Web site during October, Breast Cancer Awareness Month, for more information.
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Special Report on Rewards and RecognitionBack in a Giving Mood
After a rough start this year due to the recession, rewards and recognition vendors are bringing in more business as layoff-battered clients look for low-cost ways to keep their remaining employees engaged.
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Special Report on Health Care BenefitsPound-Foolish
Weight-focused health policy can merely end up penalizing obese workers and adding to the stigma of being severely overweight. But some employers are taking a more thoughtful approach to the emotionally fraught issue in attempting to improve workers’ health and reduce medical costs.
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TOOL Privacy Laws and Regulations
Law firm Morrison & Foerster maintains a freelance online library with links to privacy laws, regulations, reports, multilateral agreements and government authorities for more than 90 countries around the world, including the United States.
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TOOL Health Observances for September
Employers seeking help in ensuring that employees are mindful of cancer prevention may find valuable resources through Welcoa this month: September is Prostate Cancer and Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month, Childhood Cancer Month and Leukemia & Lymphoma Awareness Month.
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TOOL How Small Businesses Can Maximize the Return on Their Benefit Dollar
MetLife's guide is intended to help companies with fewer than 500 employees make the most effective use of their benefits.
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TOOL Health Observances for August
With flu season around the corner and the H1N1 flu still a top concern of medical professionals, Welcoa reminds employers that August is National Immunization Awareness Month.
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Special Report on Employee Relocation Barely Moving
Stagnant U.S. home sales continue to force companies to rein in spending on domestic relocation. Multinationals, meanwhile, are cutting global relocating costs, shortening overseas assignments and reducing their reliance on expatriates.
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TOOL A Benefits Primer for New Employees
Human resources professionals often underestimate how complicated a benefit packet can appear to new employees, particularly if they are young or are recent entrants to the workforce. Here’s basic guidance you can use to inform them about role benefits play in total compensation.
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Special Report On Talent Acquisition TechnologyLogging Off Of Job Boards
Many organizations are eschewing general-purpose job boards and turning instead to social networking sites, search engine marketing and niche job sites to get the specific worker skills they need. The online giants are trying to change with the times, however.
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TOOL Health Observances for July
It’s Eye Injury Prevention Month, the Wellness Council of America reminds employers—a good time to ensure that employees are taking the necessary precautions.
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TOOL Powering the Economy Through Employee Ownership
Companies with significant employee ownership have demonstrated successful models, focused on empowering employees, that create benefits for all stakeholders: employees, shareholders and customers. Here are links to key information on employee ownership, including Web sites and academic institutions.
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TOOL Six Tips on How to Weather a Twitterstorm
Thanks to Twitter, Facebook and YouTube, all sorts of new critics and activists are finding their voices amplified online. So, what to do when an online firestorm erupts?
