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- Re-Re-Re-Retiring
- The article says for the employee, the time to begin active and committed retirement planning is the first day on the job, not one month before retirement. More than ever before, a successful and secure retirement from a city or county should not rely entirely upon a government pension plan...
- White papers 2002-09-02
- Home Care Reimbursement, Long-Term Care Utilization, and Health Outcomes
- Long-term care currently comprises almost 10% of national health expenditures and it is projected to rise rapidly over coming decades. A key, and relatively poorly understood, element of long-term care is home health care. The paper uses a substantial change in Medicare reimbursement policy, which took the form of tightly...
- White papers 2004-04-01
- Integrating Acute and Long-Term Care for High-Cost Populations
- This white paper study deals with the initiatives that share most of the following characteristics: prepaid, risk-adjusted financing; integrated Medicare and Medicaid funding streams; a flexible array of acute and long-term benefits; well organized, redesigned care delivery systems that tailor these benefits to individual need; a mission-driven philosophy; and considerable...
- White papers 2002-04-09
- Supplemental Disability and Long-Term Care Insurance: Building a Comprehensive Executive Benefits Package
- Highly compensated executives typically have a strong appreciation of their special retirement planning needs given the severe limitations imposed on qualified retirement plans. The same is true with respect to their estate planning needs and the role life insurance plays in protecting their assets for their loved ones. As a...
- White papers 2002-06-14
- Supporting Caring Caregivers: Policy and Practice Initiatives in Long Term Care
- An MIT Workplace Center working paper reports on 40 interviews in the healthcare sector in Massachusetts and identifies five key problems. Frank and Eaton focus in the long term care industry on the very problems identified in that working paper: poor quality jobs including short staffing, inflexible schedules and difficult...
- White papers 2005-05-25
- Long-Term Care and Supplemental Disability Income Plans
- Most banks develop compensation and benefit plans with the belief that their top executives - those most responsible for the bank's prosperity - should be rewarded for their contributions to the bank's financial health. However, the assets those executives build as a result can erode quickly when a long-term illness...
- White papers 2005-10-01
- Guidelines for Preventing Health Care-Associated Pneumonia, 2003: Recommendations of CDC and the Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee
- This paper updates, expands, and replaces the previously published CDC "Guideline for Prevention of Nosocomial Pneumonia". The new guidelines are designed to reduce the incidence of pneumonia and other severe, acute lower respiratory tract infections in acute-care hospitals and in other health-care settings (e.g., ambulatory and long-term care institutions) and...
- White papers 2004-03-26
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- Managing Work and Personal Life
- Regardless of what your personal life entails, you need to know how to balance your work and life demands. Everyone who works is subject to pressure from the workplace that can impinge on personal time. In an always-on world, people can easily become more attentive to their jobs than the...
- Articles 2007-10-23
- Fiat SpA Q3 2007 Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, today's question and answer session will be conducted electronically. [Operator Instructions]. Our first question today comes from Massimo Vecchio of Mediobanca. Please go ahead. Massimo Vecchio - Mediobanca Securities Good afternoon to everybody. I have a question on Fiat...
- Earnings calls 2007-10-25
- Looking For a New Job: The Pros and Cons
- Do you dread Monday mornings, cringing at the prospect of returning to a job you hate, feeling tired, stressed, and unmotivated just thinking about it? If you don't find joy or satisfaction in your work, it may be time to quit—after thinking it through. Even if you're tempted to hand...
- Articles 2007-10-17
- Offshore Outsourcing - Legislative Outlook And Business Risks
- Outsourcing offshore - or, as some say, "Exporting jobs" - has become a leading issue in this political year. Companies have long entrusted data centers, networks and the like to contractors who promise better performance and lower cost. Human resources, customer care, logistics, procurement, accounting and other business processes have...
- White papers 2004-05-24
- Pioneer Electronics Service, Inc. Awarded Top Performance Honor; High Quality Service Ensures Customer Concerns Are a Top Priority to Pioneer
- LONG BEACH, Calif. -- Pioneer Electronics Service, Inc. is among 17 California organizations to be honored with the prestigious 2005 California Award for Performance Excellence CAPE. The CAPE Award recognizes companies and organizations that demonstrate continuous improvement and superior performance in key business areas such as leadership, customer care, strategic...
- Research articles 2006-04-12
- Boost Your Income on the Verge of Retirement
- Before the recession stormed in, Dan and Barbara Hoffa could see nothing but smooth sailing ahead. But now Dan is unemployed, Barbara's income has been slashed, and their comfortable $2 million nest egg has been crushed. Dan plans to file for Social Security in August 2010, when he...
- Articles 2009-09-15
- Creating the “New You”
- “Reinvention” implies a process of deconstruction, a subsequent reconstruction, and a resultant new thing. Reinventing yourself ideally results from a candid examination of your life and a determination to improve it by taking positive action leading to your new goals—whether a better job, happier work-life balance, or a healthier lifestyle....
- Articles 2007-02-28
- When a Colleague Exhibits Signs of Depression
- Four times over the past two weeks, I have discovered one of my female colleagues crying in the bathroom. When I tried to console her, she told me everything was fine and asked me not to say anything. Im worried about her, but were friends and I dont want to...
- Blog posts 2007-04-21
- GlaxoSmithKline Employees Fume Over Latest Round of Layoffs
- GlaxoSmithKline is historically terrible at handling layoffs news, and the round of job cuts that appears imminent is no exception. (Update: the official announcement is coming on Wednesday.) As usual, the news is being debated all over the net before management has gotten out of bed just like last time....
- Blog posts 2008-11-04
- Deciding Whether You're in the Right Job
- Regardless of what you do for a living, it's human nature to wonder at times if you are in the right job. Most people spend at least some of their working life questioning themselves and their careers—and speculating about whether other occupations or work situations might be more fulfilling and...
- Articles 2007-04-20
- Nasty Business
- For human resources, getting calls from destitute former employees who they thought were being taken care of is a nightmare. Employers agree that they have an important stake in an employee's welfare, which is why they buy the insurance. For a long time, insurance companies probably told their clients you...
- White papers 2003-07-01
- Tackling Low Employee Morale
- Low morale can gradually destroy employees' commitment, hurt the product or service they offer, and alienate the clients and customers they serve. It has many sources—poor economic conditions, a clash of cultures following a merger or acquisition, bad management, or any number of other factors.Poor morale is contagious. It may...
- Articles 2007-04-20
- Dealing with Failure
- Thomas Edison (1847–1931) is credited with the invention of the phonograph and the electric light bulb. When asked about his numerous experimental failures, he said: "I have not failed 700 times. I have not failed once. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I...
- Articles 2007-11-08
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