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- Health Care Reform: Stop Focusing on the Cost
- Massachusetts? existing universal health care plan has become a prototype for current reform proposals now in Congress. But Jonathan Gruber, a key architect of the program, says to make federal reform work, Congress needs to give up trying to control costs for now. ...
- Articles 2009-08-06
- Cost Control Is Still Nowhere in Sight, Experts Say
- The Democratic proposals for controlling healthcare costs won't have much impact in the short term, experts say. Unless they can do something about spending, they will accomplish little. by Ken Terry
- Blog posts 2009-09-02
- Reviving Managed Care: Focused Medical Management (Finally) Pairs Quality Care With Measurable Cost Control
- This article describes about the year 2001 which was an ugly year for those trying to contain medical costs as a 12% inflation rate kept health plan executives up at night, swinging at demons. Some forecasters cannot see an end to the cost inflation. They point to a vicious whirlwind...
- White papers 2002-05-01
- Building on the Job-Based Health Care System: What Would It Take?
- The paper presents a blueprint for a reform, along with design choices and their implications, which would improve access, cost control, and quality. Requiring employers to provide coverage or at least to help workers obtain group insurance, combined with income-based premium subsidies, expanded public programs, and backup "insurance exchanges," would...
- White papers 2003-08-27
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- "Taming the Wild Project -- Control Techniques for Project Success
- "Control is associated with a number of items or issues within a project. Project managers need to control their teams, the flow of work, the schedule, budget, and scope The Triple Constraint. Actually if you read the Project Management Institute's Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge you...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Dealing with Drug and Alcohol Abuse in the Workplace
- Drug and alcohol abuse is a serious workplace issue. Of the 16.7 million illicit drug users aged 18 or older, 12.4 million (74.3%) were employed either full or part time, according to the U.S. government. More than one in three (38%) workers between the ages of 18 and 25 are...
- Articles 2007-03-27
- Reducing and Managing Workplace Absenteeism
- Productivity loss due to absenteeism is a serious and growing challenge. In the United States, the annual cost to employers for time lost due to accidents is almost $100 billion, and other unscheduled worker absences costs even more. Absence management is a growing body of knowledge and experience that managers...
- Articles 2007-03-27
- Countering Terrorism: The New Cost of Doing Business In America
- Since the September 11th World Trade Center attack, the thoughtful human resources professional realizes, instinctively, that his or her workplace has changed, probably forever. However, the HR professional is probably, like most people, unsure both as to exactly how the workplace will change as well as what he or she...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Swine flu national emergency should spur businesses to action
- Computerworld - President Barack Obama declared the H1N1 flu outbreak a national emergency this past weekend, giving health-care systems the ability to bypass some federal regulatory requirements in order to quickly implement disaster plans should they become overwhelmed. Similar to declaring a hurricane emergency as a storm approaches landfall, the...
- News items 2009-10-29
- When One and One Make One | BTalk Australia
- (17min 52) The last year has set a new record for the number of mergers and acquisitions (M&As) in Australia. Putting two companies together can be a long and complex process, with the potential for lots to go wrong. Today on BTalk Australia Phil Dobbie talks...
- Blog posts 2008-07-22
- Hewitt Study Finds Employers Lack Control Over Global Retirement Benefits
- Despite the mounting cost of retirement programs and the increasing complexity of governmental compliance, a majority of global employers lack control over their retirement benefits, according to research by Hewitt Associates, a global human resources services firm. Hewitt's study of more than 100 large, multinational organizations located in Europe and...
- White papers 2005-10-26
- When Are ERP Costs Deductible?
- The IRS normally takes the position that businesses must capitalize the cost of Enterprise-Resource-Planning software ERP and amortize it over 36 months. ERP software incorporates financial accounting, inventory control, production, sales and distribution and human resources modules. The IRS requires businesses to capitalize reengineering costs. When a company engages in...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Federated to add 250 jobs in the Cincinnati region. (Federated Department Stores Inc.) (Brief Article)
- NEW YORK -- Federated Department Stores Inc. will add approximately 250 positions to its corporate headquarters and other area offices in the Cincinati region. The moves are as a result of Federated's merger with Macy's, as well as the ongoing consolidation of the company's ...
- Research articles 1995-02-28
- Media Alert: Year 2000 Return on Investment: In the Year 2010?
- --BUSINESS WIRE--June 28, 1999-- Background: With many companies coming to a close on Y2K readiness efforts, CIOs and other executives are questioning how the steep investment -- in terms of cost and human resources -- can be leveraged. IMI Systems reports that companies can realize ...
- Research articles 1999-06-28
- LAN Airlines Appoints Vice President North/Central America and Asia
- MIAMI -- LAN Airlines has appointed Luis Eduardo Riquelme as its new Vice President North/Central America and Asia for the company's passenger division. Based at LAN's North American headquarters in Miami, Riquelme is directly responsible for the airline's passenger operations in the United States, Canada, Central America and Asia, including...
- Research articles 2005-07-14
- Employers turning to cost-sharing for drug benefits
- More employers nationwide are having their workers pay a greater portion of their prescription-drug benefit as a long-term strategy to control employee-benefit costs, according to a new survey from Buck Consultants, a New York City-based human resources and benefits consulting company. The study, "Understanding Your Strategies for Coping with the...
- Research articles 2008-09-05
- Managing Projects Effectively
- Project management is a technique used to organize work into separate, definable units to ease the coordination of different tasks. Although its earliest roots can be traced to the military and the construction industry, NASA's legendary achievement of landing Neil Armstrong on the moon popularized the technique. Since then, Governments...
- Articles 2007-11-28
- How to Manage in a Recession
- During a downturn, the usual rules of the workplace change dramatically. Here's how to keep your team motivated and productive. Set the Tone Goal: Lower the anxiety level in the office by being candid about...
- Articles 2008-06-23
- Outsource Your Way Through | BTalk Australia
- Tom Christopoul, CEO of consulting firm Resources Global Professionals, says his Australian clients are seeing the economy starting to bottom out, although he admits that it's difficult to really see the short term future. On today’s BTalk Australia he tells Phil Dobbie how his firm has traditionally...
- Blog posts 2009-03-24
- Moon Landing: A Giant Leap for Man-Management
- The Apollo 11 moon landing 40 years ago yesterday was a huge waste of money, but so what? Landing three men on the moon on 20 July 1969 is a triumph of endeavour that arguably hasn't been topped since. The Apollo programme employed 390,000 people (around the same...
- Blog posts 2009-07-21
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