Download Free Employee Benefits In Medium And Large Firms Book in PDF and EPUB Free Download. You can read online Employee Benefits In Medium And Large Firms and write the review.

Reprints selected articles from the Monthly Labor Review that were published between 1982 and 1990.
The United States is unique among economically advanced nations in its reliance on employers to provide health benefits voluntarily for workers and their families. Although it is well known that this system fails to reach millions of these individuals as well as others who have no connection to the work place, the system has other weaknesses. It also has many advantages. Because most proposals for health care reform assume some continued role for employers, this book makes an important contribution by describing the strength and limitations of the current system of employment-based health benefits. It provides the data and analysis needed to understand the historical, social, and economic dynamics that have shaped present-day arrangements and outlines what might be done to overcome some of the access, value, and equity problems associated with current employer, insurer, and government policies and practices. Health insurance terminology is often perplexing, and this volume defines essential concepts clearly and carefully. Using an array of primary sources, it provides a store of information on who is covered for what services at what costs, on how programs vary by employer size and industry, and on what governments doâ€"and do not doâ€"to oversee employment-based health programs. A case study adapted from real organizations' experiences illustrates some of the practical challenges in designing, managing, and revising benefit programs. The sometimes unintended and unwanted consequences of employer practices for workers and health care providers are explored. Understanding the concepts of risk, biased risk selection, and risk segmentation is fundamental to sound health care reform. This volume thoroughly examines these key concepts and how they complicate efforts to achieve efficiency and equity in health coverage and health care. With health care reform at the forefront of public attention, this volume will be important to policymakers and regulators, employee benefit managers and other executives, trade associations, and decisionmakers in the health insurance industry, as well as analysts, researchers, and students of health policy.
Here's a guide for all managers charged with creating and updating their company's human resource policy manuals. This definitive handbook not only covers all areas of employee relations, it also tackles the full range of critical contemporary HR issues, such as AIDS, substance abuse, and chemical safety. Managers can take advantage of how-to istructions to organize and write a manual, timesaving checklists and worksheets, and invaluable tips on how to write personnel policies that lead to clear understanding and interpretation. Alerting the reader to legal pitfalls, the handbook covers employment policies, leaves of absence, pay, discipline and discharge, benefits, union relations, and more. Plus, its 100 helpful illustrations include sample forms, flow charts and a complete sample policy manual.
The historical relationship between capital and labor has evolved in the past few decades. One particularly noteworthy development is the rise of shared capitalism, a system in which workers have become partial owners of their firms and thus, in effect, both employees and stockholders. Profit sharing arrangements and gain-sharing bonuses, which tie compensation directly to a firm’s performance, also reflect this new attitude toward labor. Shared Capitalism at Work analyzes the effects of this trend on workers and firms. The contributors focus on four main areas: the fraction of firms that participate in shared capitalism programs in the United States and abroad, the factors that enable these firms to overcome classic free rider and risk problems, the effect of shared capitalism on firm performance, and the impact of shared capitalism on worker well-being. This volume provides essential studies for understanding the increasingly important role of shared capitalism in the modern workplace.
"The U.S. Chamber of Commerce reports that employee benefits account for nearly 40 percent of total employee compensation! You must know how to ensure high levels of employee satisfaction while keeping control of spiraling costs. When managers fail to remain informed and updated, the only result can be a substandard employee benefits program, low worker morale and/or loss of fiscal control." "Jerry S. Rosenbloom's encyclopedic The Handbook of Employee Benefits, Fourth Edition, contains chapters written by over 50 of the field's most prominent names, and has become the necessary reference for understanding and selecting the benefits plan that works best for both your employees and your company." "Will managed health care plans deliver health care that is affordable for your company, and still acceptable for your employees? When is a defined contribution pension plan superior to a defined benefit plan, and why?" "When questions arise concerning employee benefits, questions which must be answered on the spot, it is imperative that you have this accepted and trusted informational volume at your fingertips. Jerry Rosenbloom's The Handbook of Employee Benefits, Fourth Edition, remains the one and only sourcebook you will need to remain informed and updated on this increasingly controversial and significant topic, and to keep benefit costs down while not short-changing employees."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved