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• Watson Wyatt Worldwide F3Q09 (Qtr End 3/31/09) Earnings Call Transcript

  Seeking Alpha - 2009-05-08

  Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Operator Instructions. Your first question comes from the line of Josh Vogel from Sidoti & Co. Please proceed. Josh Vogel - Sidoti & Co. Hey good morning, thank you. You guys obviously did a good job, getting margins back up and keeping them up in the Insurance...

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• Watson Wyatt Worldwide Inc. F2Q09 (Qtr End 12/31/08) Earnings Call Transcript

  Seeking Alpha - 2009-02-05

  Question-and-Answer Session Operator Operator Instructions Your first question comes from Ashwin Shirvaikar - City Group. Ashwin Shirvaikar - City Group So I heavily appreciate the clarity of the press release separating out the impact of currency from the factor that you can actually control. My first question is,...

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• Workforce Management And Retirement In A 401(K) World

  BNET - 2007-09-01

  This article, the first in a two-part series based on 'Pension Aspirations and Realizations: A Perspective on Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow', explores the ways retirement will be different, for both employers and employees, in a 401k world. The second article looks at ways of making Defined Benefit DB plans more...

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• Absence Management

  BNET - 2005-03-01

  Over the last 10 years, sickness absence has worked its way up the Human Resource agenda. Changes to sick pay policy or methods of managing absence adopted by major employers are national news nowadays. This paper examines why this trend has developed and examines the response by business leaders in...

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• The Impact of Human Capital Management on Shareholder Value

  BNET - 2004-02-20

  Two years ago Watson Wyatt Worldwide, a global consulting firm, released its Human Capital Index or HCI. The study, the first one that ever demonstrated the link between superior human resource practices and the creation of shareholder value, surveyed 405 public companies in North America. It identified thirty practices that...

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• How to Cut Costs Without Cutting Off Future Growth: Lessons From the Restructurings of the Early 1990s

  BNET - 2002-09-23

  Many firms are struggling in the economic downturn to maintain profitability in the face of declining demand for their products. Some have resorted to workforce reductions to cut costs and preserve corporate profits. While that may work in the short run, the long-term result is often a demoralized surviving workforce,...

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