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- Policing the Policies
- Every employer should have in place adequate policies and procedures relevant to their particular business. These can be wide-ranging and can cover topics such as occupational health and safety, smoking, drugs and alcohol, bullying, harassment and discrimination, training and development, disciplinary policies, privacy, handling of grievances and the provision of...
- Blog posts 2008-08-10
- Family-Friendly Policies from Family-Friendly Companies
- Family-Friendly Policies from Family-Friendly CompaniesInteresting...Good read. Thanks!Steven Burda, MBAhttp://www.linkedin.com/in/burdaRE: Family-Friendly Policies from Family-Friendly CompaniesIf only all companies could afford to be this generous.RE: Family-Friendly Policies from Family-Friendly CompaniesI work for a partner/competitor of Microsoft that gives only 8 weeks paid if a c sections and 6 weeks paid if...
- Discussion threads 2007-05-31
- Five Key Intranet Policies
- Most intranets have some form of policies and procedures, typically focusing on authoring guidelines and standards. The question is: are these the right policies to have? In many cases, intranet teams have established policies that they find difficult to enforce, while missing the opportunity to develop policies that will be...
- White papers 2006-06-22
- Role of economic policies in protecting the environment: the experience of Pakistan
- Economic policies that ensure efficient allocation of resources is a necessary, but not a sufficient condition for creating appropriate environmental incentives. Environment-specific policies are also needed to correct market failures leading to environment problems. Two types of policies can be used to deal with environmental problems--command and control policies and...
- Research articles 1996-12-22
- Communicating HR Policies
- I believe this is an important topic because it is where some companies fall down and open themselves up to litigation. Regularly communicating HR policies that spell out accepted codes of conduct and define breaches such as harassment and bullying build a better defence for the employer...
- Blog posts 2009-08-05
- Domestic Climate Change Policies and the WTO
- The Kyoto Protocol gives Annex 1 countries considerable flexibility in the choice of domestic policies to meet their emissions commitments. Possible climate policies include carbon/energy taxes, subsidies, energy efficiency standards, eco-labels, and government procurement policies. This paper explores the potential interaction between these domestic climate policies and WTO rules. It...
- White papers 2002-11-01
- Medicaid Policies to Contain Psychiatric Drug Costs
- This study reviews Medicaid policies to restrict access to psychiatric medications. Policies on prior authorization, preferred drug lists, limitations on the number of prescriptions, fail-first requirements, and use of generics are reviewed. All states apply one or more of those policies to medications for mental illness, and many apply several....
- White papers 2005-04-01
- A Perceptions Framework For Categorizing Inventory Policies In Single-Stage Inventory Systems
- In this paper we propose a perceptions framework for categorizing a range of inventory policies, including optimal inventory policies, that can be employed in a single-stage supply chain. We take the existence of a wide range of inventory policies, including what we would term optimal and suboptimal policies, as given...
- White papers 2007-06-01
- Broader Covered Perils Leaves Gaps In Covered Losses Under EPL Policies
- Recent years have witnessed significant expansion in the scope of perils covered by employment practices liability insurance EPLI policies. When they were first offered in the early 1990s, few forms covered much more than wrongful termination, discrimination, and sexual harassment. However, by the mid-1990s, perils such as constructive discharge, wrongful...
- White papers 2001-10-01
- Policies and Market Factors Driving Wind Power Development in the United States
- This paper explores the policies and market factors that have been driving utility-scale wind energy development in the United States, particularly in the states that have achieved a substantial amount of wind energy investment in recent years. Although there are federal policies and overarching market issues that are encouraging investment...
- White papers 2003-07-01
- The Interaction Between Project Contracts and Insurance Policies
- This paper looks at the following four issues concerning the interaction between project contracts and insurance policies: the importance of ensuring, as far as possible, that a contractor's insurance policies protect those risks which fall on that contractor under the project contracts; the various means by which the scope of...
- White papers 2004-11-30
- Medigap Policies: The Basics
- It's health insurance that private insurance companies sell to help fill gaps in what the Original Medicare Plan covers. Medigap policies are also known as "Medicare Supplement Insurance." Medigap policies pay most - if not all - of the costs for coinsurance and co-payments under the Original Medicare Plan. These...
- White papers 2003-11-04
- Entrepreneurship and Regional Development Policies
- Many national, regional or local agencies have created policies to directly support entrepreneurs so as to increase the number of businesses or aid the competitiveness and expansion of existing small firms both generally. This paper considers what is meant by the term entrepreneurship and the implications of these meanings for...
- White papers 2002-06-28
- Investment Policy, Financial Policies, and the Control of Agency Conflicts
- This paper analyzes the interaction among investment, financing and hedging policies in a model where managers derive perquisites from investment. In this model, both hedging and financing policies affect a firm's investment policy, thus changing costs of over- and underinvestment. The paper demonstrates that combinations of financing and hedging policies...
- White papers 2004-04-01
- Pace and Sequencing of Economic Policies
- This paper examines the design of economic policies using factor analysis, which has several advantages; in particular, it limits the problems that typically arise from the high correlation of economic policy indicators, it helps in identifying clusters of economic policy, and it facilitates the derivation of policy design indicators that...
- White papers 2005-06-01
- A Consumer Perspective on Price-Matching Refund Policies: Effect on Price Perceptions and Search Behavior
- Although price-matching refund policies are common in many retail environments, the impact of such policies on consumers has largely been ignored. This paper reports the results of three studies that examine price-matching policies from a consumer perspective. Study 1 shows that consumers perceive price-matching policies as signals of low store...
- White papers 2001-09-01
- Electricity Resource Adequacy: Matching Policies and Goals
- Policies designed to ensure resource adequacy in electricity markets have been rooted in a disparate set of policy goals. Differences over the appropriate goals and focus of such policies have produced different views about what the appropriate means are for achieving these goals. This paper explores the motivations for resource...
- White papers 2005-08-01
- John Hancock queries Pa. clients about concerns. (John Hancock Mutual Life questionnaire for policyholders with lapsed policies)
- John Hancock Mutual Life sent letters to approximately 3,900 Pennsylvania policyholders to determine why they allowed their policies to lapse or have multiple John Hancock policies. John Hancock sources said that the questionnaire was unrelated to a classJohn Hancock Mutual Life sent letters to approximately 3,900 Pennsylvania policyholders to determine...
- Research articles 1994-10-31
- Late News; Wal-Mart settles suit over COLI [corporate-owned life insurance] policies.
- Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has settled a lawsuit that charged the employer's corporate-owned life insurance policies violated Texas law. In the 1990s Wal-Mart purchased life insurance policies on its employees and made itself the beneficiary to obtain cert Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has settled a lawsuit that charged...
- Research articles 2004-01-12
- Life policies endow GSU Chair. (Kenneth Black Jr. Chair of Insurance at Georgia State University)
- Life Policies Endow GSU Chair ATLANTA--Thirty-eight life insurance policies with face amounts totaling more than $2 million helped fund the Kenneth Black Jr. Chair of Insurance established recently at Georgia State University. An additional $250,0Life Policies Endow GSU Chair ...
- Research articles 1989-03-06
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