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		<title><![CDATA[Benefits Going to Waste? Here?s How to Cash In]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every year, American workers leave thousands of dollars on the table by not maxing out their benefits. Just in time for this year?s enrollment period, we offer suggestions for taking full advantage of your employer?s offerings ? everything from 401k matches to gym membership reimbursements. Here?s how the numbers add...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Business Literacy for HR Professionals Series]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m3495/is_8_50/ai_n14933142]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The following three books are the inaugural volumes in the "Business Literacy for HR Professionals Series" from the Society for Human Resource Management and the Harvard Business School Press.  The series is designed to help educate human resource professionals at all levels in business management practices that can make...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Aug 2005 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Helping Employees Work Their 401(k)s.]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=50817]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The lackluster performance of 401k plans during the past few years has made many employee participants jittery, and increasingly they're looking for employer-sponsored help on handling retirement investments. Typically, it's HR's role to connect em..ployees with sources of financial education, such as company-paid seminars, online investment tools and other information...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jun 2003 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Staying Power.]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=50807]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA["When you need key people to stick with you through tough times, reward them for their loyalty.The retention bonus, once a compensation tool reserved largely for top corporate executives, is increasingly being used to retain essential mid-level and rank-and-file employees, particularly in companies facing a financial crisis.Though still less common...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2003 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Forging a Partnership.]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=50794]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[CEO churn is at an all-time high. Increasingly, new CEOs enter a company, fail to deliver and are sent packing. Sometimes, if they do produce results, other companies snatch them up. Either way, the process starts all over again.CEOs are under enormous pressure to deliver results quickly. And that, in...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2003 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Fewer The Better]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=74847]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[To help employees make informed choices about their retirement planning options and, in particular, their 401k funds, HR professionals, and benefit managers must provide them financial education. To be sure, factors other than the sheer number of funds can have a bearing on participation in 401k plans. This article discusses...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jan 2003 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Rules for (Hitting) the Road]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=50856]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The use of relocation policies—for new hires as well as transferees—appears to be gaining favor, as are certain types of policy provisions. Some of the policy provisions that are gaining attention, according to various sources, include lump-sum payments to employees for their moving costs, help for spouses and children, and...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2002 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Making a Merger Work]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=50843]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA["Culture, business and talent are key issues for HR in the AOL Time Warner merger. To achieve this, the company's HR executives minimized their conventional functions as administrators and payroll experts in favor of more proactive roles as coaches and profit consultants. That's a vital transition in an economy rocked...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Mar 2002 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Is Your 401(k) Squeezed by Costs?]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=50835]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Human resource professionals who manage their firms' retirement benefits need to get smarter about what their companies now pay—and what they should be paying—for their 401k plans. Plan sponsors should be proactive and understand where they are and how their plan is structured currently, rather than finding out that you've...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2002 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Kindest Cut]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=50908]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA["This article shows what to consider when devising a severance policy. But taking a fresh look at this important benefit may be a good idea, even if your organization does not anticipate any layoffs.   Most employers provide cash, medical benefits and outplacement services to employees who lose their...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Apr 2001 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[HR-To-Go Still Has Room To Grow]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=74956]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Hiring separate vendors to handle the company's payroll and health insurance needs but concluded that a single point of contact would avoid confusion. It tends to be a little more expensive than doing it in-house, but if one puts a value on time, it is probably less expensive. Business owners...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Feb 2000 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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