...Friends with Benefits: Blame Media or Generations? To what extent are the expectations we form from watching movies affecting our dating habits: friends with benefits The high extent of how powerful the media affects society’s habits and forms ideals for interaction seems as if the television is controlling the way society interrelate. The media creates false expectations for the rest of society. It’s the false accounts- the fictional stuff- that sells but also becomes the expectation in real life as society models the behaviors from the movies. It is a paradoxical concept that the entertainment industry creates movies with actors in roles that need to be exaggerated in order to sell; this obviously implies that the lifestyles portrayed on the television are not representations of the average person’s life. However, when viewers- normal people- watch these television roles, these false lives are assumed to be the norm for real-life so that creates a false system in which we approach interpersonal relationships, such as in dating. Romantic realism deals with creating stories of high-level stimulation, not something boring to bring a movie to life, etc. Unfortunately, this influence from the media and the humane aspect that we are never fully satisfied with what we have are vast contributions for the increase of friends with benefits in contemporary dating culture. When one looks at what plays on the television, the perfect, utopian, or ideal accounts of the characters’...
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...control group was not. The experiment was designed to examine whether it is possible to affect individual behavior using a relatively inexpensive informational intervention about the provisions of a public program and to explore what mechanisms underlie the behavior change. We find that our relatively mild intervention (sending an informational brochure and an invitation to a webtutorial) significantly increased labor force participation one year later and that this effect is driven by female subjects. The information intervention increased the perceived returns to working longer, especially among female respondents, which suggests that the behavioral response can be attributed at least in part to updated information about Social Security. Key words: Social Security Incentives; Field Experiment; Labor Force Participation; Knowledge; Expectations; Retirement; Benefit Claim Age, Earnings Test. * Liebman: Harvard Kennedy School and NBER. Luttmer: Economics Department at Dartmouth College, and NBER. Corresponding author: Erzo Luttmer, Erzo.FP.Luttmer@Dartmouth.Edu. We thank John Geanakoplos, David Laibson, Annamaria Lusardi, Brigitte Madrian, Susann Rohwedder, and Stephen Zeldes for helpful comments. We thank Kate Mikels, Abdul Tariq, and Victoria Levin for superb research assistance. This research was supported by the U.S. Social Security Administration through grant #10-M-98363-1-01 to the National Bureau of Economic Research as part of the SSA Retirement Research Consortium...
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...FINANCIAL BENEFITS AND DRAWBACKS TO CHILD CARE BENEFITS PACKAGE Prepared for Professor Culverson Prepared by Breynna Bass Amy Marvier Veronica Wicks November 17, 2011 BASS AND WICKS ACCOUNT STAFF 7263 North Lake Dr., Columbus, GA 31909 (706)-555-8458 November 17, 2011 Professor Culverson 4255 University Ave Woodall Hall, Room 104A Columbus, GA 31907 Dear Professor Culverson: The attached report describes the financial benefit and drawbacks of child care that our company is offering to our employees as part of an expansion to our current benefits package. We feel that offering this additional benefit will increase employee productivity and performance; produce positive relations between staff, and yield higher profits. The research was designed to examine the impact of child care benefits package in three areas: • • • The projected impact that the child care benefits will have on our company financially The projected impact that it would have on the employee’s productivity, performance, and relation with staff The projected financial income statement of the company after profits and expenses are factored in with this additional benefit cost Primary research consisted of 75 surveys that were given to parents at Aflac Imagination Station, Growing Room, and Netta Little Treasures. We also interviewed the managers at each location to determine various child care benefit packages provided. Secondary research sources included reviewing two large companies and their...
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...Employee Benefits Sheila Amparado July 29, 2012 HRM/240 Elizabeth Bossell To: Upper Management From: Sheila Amparado Date: July 29’ 2012 Subject: Employee Benefits for Registered Nurses Introduction Within our Healthcare Organization there a number of diverse employees it is extremely difficult to maintain appropriate benefits for each specific individual. Although it is difficult we need flexibility to put the correct benefits in place. As stated on July 1, 2012 healthcare cost are rising and there has been a large number of claims. We are suggesting new appropriate benefits for our Registered Nurses. Recently the Human Resources Department and Upper Management attended a meeting to discuss different employee benefit plans. It was determined that our organization needs to reduce our companies total cost for these benefits. As an organization we are determined to provide our employees with best possible benefits that our company can afford at the present time. Nonetheless, employees and their families need employee benefits. There are several reasons why employees need benefits: medical care, ensuring future finances, unexpected absences, and tragic events. Our organization needs to provide employee benefits in order to keep quality employees with positive attitudes. I have complied a brief summary of employee benefits that the organization would like to offer Registered Nurses in the year 2013. Health...
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...SCHEDULE I. Principal Personal Injury Protection Coverage Benefits Medical Expenses "Named Insured" and "Family Members" Limit Of Liability $ per person per accident However, regardless of the limit shown above, a limit of $250,000 per person per accident is available for a "named insured" or "family member" for "catastrophic injury treatment". "Insureds" Other Than "Named Insured" and "Fam- $250,000 per person per accident ily Members" Income Continuation Essential Services Death Benefits Income Producer Essential Services Provider Funeral Expenses II. Extended Medical Expense Benefits Coverage Benefits Medical Expenses $100 per week to a maximum of $5,200 $12 per day to a maximum of $4,380 $5,200 less any Income Continuation Benefits paid $4,380 less any Essential Services Benefits paid $1,000 $ Limit Of Liability per person per accident III. Medical Expense Benefits Deductible Unless otherwise indicated below or in the Declarations, medical expense benefits are subject to a deductible of $250 per accident. If indicated to the left or in the Declarations, medical expense benefits applicable to: A. The "named insured" and "family members" shall be subject to a deductible of $ Per accident instead of the $250 deductible; and B. "Insureds" other than the "named insured" and "family members" shall be subject to a separate deductible of $250 per accident. Medical Expense Benefits Co-Payment Medical expense benefits are subject to a co-payment of 20% per accident for...
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...Case 1: 1. With the advent of the internet, registering with WSIB has gotten easier over time as we now can through just four simple steps complete the registration process on the WSIB official website (www.wsib.on.ca). First Step This is the getting started step, here we are welcomed to the registration site, information regarding whether we are eligible to apply is available in this step, also the list of information we need to complete the registration process is given. After reading all the information given, we click on the check box that confirms our authorization to submit this registration on behalf of the employer, and acknowledges that we are submitting accurate information. Second Step This step involves confirming that there are other employees in the organization. Here you tick the check box that confirms that there are other employees other than yourself. After ticking the yes check box, you enter the number of employees you have which is 320 and you click on the no check box for the question on if you are a non-Ontario employer who employs workers who work in Ontario for 11 days or more within a calendar year. After that, you then click the next button. Here, you click the sole proprietorship for business type, and click next. Then you enter the date you first employed for this duty, the description of what the corporation does, and then you enter the estimated insurable earnings annually. Third Step This step involves providing information about the...
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...family member who wants benefits. ← If a person who wants benefits does not have a social security number, that person must apply for a number. We can help applicants get their numbers. ← If a family member has applied for a social security number, we will not delay your application while you wait for the number. ← We use social security numbers to prove income. We do not give numbers to other agencies like Immigration and Naturalization. Citizenship and Immigration Status ← You must tell us about the citizenship and immigration status for each family member who wants benefits. Information ← If a family member will not tell us about citizenship, immigration status or social security number, that person will not get benefits. ← They must still give us proof of income, expenses and other things. ← The other family members who give us their information will get benefits if they meet the rules. Emergency Medical Assistance ← Immigrants who are not eligible for other kinds of medical assistance and apply only for emergency medical assistance do not have to tell us their social security number, immigration or citizenship status. Time Limits ← Temporary Cash Assistance has time limits. ← The Food Supplement Program (formerly Food Stamps) and Medical Assistance do not have a time limit. ← When Temporary Cash Assistance ends because of time limits, earnings or other reasons, you may still get Food Supplement benefits and Medical Assistance...
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...CONFIDENTIAL? MSc in International Hotel and Tourism Leadership No TITLE: Benefits of multi-stakeholder groups for participating in Gladmat festival AUTHOR ADVISOR: Prof. Reidar Johan Mykletun Student number: 215519 ………………… 214504 ………………… Name: Ambassador Rezene Meretse ……………………………………. Muhammad Yahya ……………………………………. ACKNOWLEDGE RECEIPT OF 2 BOUND COPIES OF THESIS Stavanger, ……/…… 2013 Signature administration:…………………………… 2 Abstract This paper investigates the benefits of multi-stakeholders from participating in the Gladmat festival in Stavanger. The findings of this study can help festival and event managers to understand which major factors can attract group of stakeholders to the festival. It could help them to formulate policies, to offer suitable segment focusing on the marketing field. Stakeholder theory, the benefit segmentation theory, push and pull motivation theory, and Maslow’s hierarchy theory were applied to find the benefits of stakeholders for participating in the festival. Mixed method research have been used to collect the data, three qualitative studies and one quantitative study is carried out to explore and describe the benefits from the festival. The outcome from the qualitative shows owners benefits by positioning and marketing their product, supporting the local business, creating destination image and other factors. While, the exhibitors benefit by creating brand loyalty of business, increase sales, promotion of the business...
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...Introduction 5 Research Findings 6 Health Benefits 6 Retirement Planning 7 Employee Rewards and Incentives 8 Recommendations 10 Conclusion 11 References 12 Executive Summary We need to re-evaluate our current employee package. Our compensation strategy needs an entire tune-up. We do not offer competitive benefits that will entice the type of employees we want working for our company on a long-term basis. A new, improved, and luring employee benefit package will help set us apart from our competition. Our current benefits policy includes: Paid vacation for salaried employees only after 1 full year of continuous service, paid sick days for salaried employees only after 1 full year of continuous service, medical and dental only to all employees after 6 months of continuous service, holiday dinner for corporate employees and their spouse/domestic partner. We can improve these areas and add some other options to our current employee package, Our current health benefits are through an HMO, which is the best option at this time. Perhaps in the future when we have become a 500+ employee company we can look at the other option, a PPO coverage with an additional option to include an HSA account. Our current HMO plan provides coverage with a small co-payment and a 20/80 % coverage with a $1000 annual deductible. The only way I can see right now to improve our health benefits option is to add vision coverage and also make it...
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...problem. Our company has grown from just a few people to over 1,200 employees that are spread out over the entire state. We have a customer base of over 300 companies. These types of numbers and the demographics of these numbers make it nearly impossible for us to continue doing HR business as usual. It is time to evolve just as our company evolved or we will suffer because of it. Thankfully, there are numerous options at our disposal. I believe our first issue that needs to be addressed is the hiring of new staff. With our growth rate, it is inevitable that we have the continuing need to bring in new people. After a brief analysis of how we do things, I have come to the conclusion that this area can be greatly enhanced leading to less paperwork and quickening the process. There are some instances where it takes six months to fill a position and other instances where we are offering jobs to people who never even applied. In our country’s current financial situation, more and more people are out of work and are looking for a job (Outsourcing, 2009). This is both good news and bad news for us. It is good because we can be very selective in who we hire. We do not have to take the first person that comes along but can literally have the pick of the litter. It is bad because the amount of people looking for work bogs down just about any hiring process. We can get top quality people...
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...between nations. The following parts will explain Hofstede Framework briefly. The first dimension is Power Distance. It is a tool to measure the power difference between levels in organization. In a group with high power distance, the majority of people would tend to respect in authority and establish hierarchy. When observing their behavior, they would have a great esteem on the class of social level. By contrary, a society with a low power distance would not fear authority and view themselves as equal with equal rights. Generally, the power distance in Oriental is higher than that in Occidental. The second dimension is Individualism vs. Collectivism. This index measures the preference of a group of people in considering self-benefit or group-benefit. In a society of collectivism, the society would have strong group cohesion and have higher responsibility on others well-being. Besides, the management level would tend to discuss with their subordinates before making a decision. By contrary, people will have loose ties and lack of interpersonal connection when a society prefers individualism. Generally, the Oriental prefer to focus on collectivism; the Occidental prefer to focus on the individualism. The third dimension is Achievement vs. Nurturing. This index reflects a society that sticks with and values traditional male and female roles. If the score is high, the society tends to holes value like traditionally male which is competitive, assertive and ambitious. They would...
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...Help using this PDF claim form In this PDF form we have introduced a special feature that lets you save it in Adobe Reader 8.1.2 and later. This means that you no longer have to complete the form in one session. This form will only work if you: • save it to your computer, then � • open it in Acrobat Reader version 8.1.2 or later. � The form will not work in: • older versions of Acrobat Reader • other pdf readers, for example Preview on a Mac or Foxit on a PC • your web browser window. If you are having technical difficulties: • downloading the form • Navigating around the form, or • printing the form Please contact the eService helpdesk. Phone: 0845 601 80 40 Minicom (textphone): 0845 601 80 39 Email: eservicehelpdesk@dwp.gsi.gov.uk Opening hours Monday to Friday: 08.00am - 09.00pm Weekend: 08.00am - 04.00pm Closed on all Public and Bank Holidays. For help and advice on the information you need to put on the form or about the benefit you want to claim, contact the office that deals with the benefit. Go back We would like your feedback about this PDF claim form We would like your feedback about this form. We will use any comments to improve future versions. Please email your comments to: forms.feedback@dwp.gsi.gov.uk HCTB1 notes 04/13 Housing Benefit Notes for filling in the claim form for Housing Benefit • • • • • • • • • About this form About Housing Benefit Local Housing Allowance Proof Filling in the form If you need help to fill in the form What to...
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...eating nowadays. Foods have become so different and developed, that we can be eating something we didn’t even know we were consuming. Genetically modified food is gaining popularity and notice. GMOs are foods that have been genetically modified by changing and switching around the DNA. Are we using the benefit of GMOs wisely, or may we seem to go far? If we continue this process will it potentially harm us, or benefit us? First of all, in the article Genetically Modified Organisms it mentions, “...genetically modified crops and animals will also be more environmentally friendly because they conserve water, soil, and energy.” She also mentions, “...animals also are expected to have a higher resistance to disease and overall better health, with better natural waste management.” Therefore, our animals are helping our environment, but as well as adapting to beneficial health. Animals will help our environment by conserving necessary needs for any living organism. Also, since the resistance to disease has increased, we will experience a wonderful environment. Since animals are expected to have better health and well-being we can expect “better” milk, eggs, meat, etc. and if we take consideration...
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...GALLAGHER BENEFIT SERVICES, I NC . DISCLAIMER We share this information with our clients and friends for general informational purposes only. It does not necessarily address all of your specific issues. It should not be construed as, nor is it intended to provide, legal advice. Questions regarding specific issues and application of these rules to your plans should be addressed by your legal counsel. Page i | © Gallagher Benefit Services, Inc. 2014 Contents BACKGROUND ......................................................................................................... 1 EMPLOYER RESPONSIBILITIES ......................................................................... 1 General ......................................................................................................... 1 1. Is there anything we have to do immediately? .................................................................. 1 2. Will I be required to offer health insurance coverage to my employees? .......................... 1 3. When will this requirement be effective? .......................................................................... 1 4. We have between 50 and 99 full-time employees (including full-time equivalents). Will we have to do anything in order to qualify for the delay until 2016? ....................................... 1 5. Our plan is self-funded. Will we have to do anything as a result of this new law? ............ 2 6. We are a...
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...PROCEDURES COMMITTEE REVIEW OF COST-BENEFIT ASSESSMENT IN THE USE OF ANIMALS IN RESEARCH JUNE 2003 REPORT OF THE COST-BENEFIT WORKING GROUP OF THE ANIMAL PROCEDURES COMMITTEE PREFACE Letter to the Minister from Michael Banner, Chair of the Animal Procedures Committee 17 June 2003 Dear Ms Flint ANIMAL PROCEDURES COMMITTEE: RECOMMENDATIONS ON COST-BENEFIT ASSESSMENT UNDER THE ANIMALS (SCIENTIFIC PROCEDURES) ACT 1986 On behalf of the Animal Procedures Committee I enclose the Committee’s report on cost-benefit assessment. In it we address the adequacy of the current cost-benefit assessment performed in the course of evaluating project licence applications. We have sought to look at the many issues which arise in relation to this important element of the regulation of the use of animals, but would draw attention to three particular aspects of our work. In the first place we have addressed the fundamental question as to scientific validity of the use of animals. We believe that our considerations and conclusions offer an important clarification of the debate and fulfil the request made by your predecessor, Mike O’Brien, to provide advice on this issue. Secondly, while we conclude that some uses of animals may yield scientific knowledge, we argue that this does not settle the question of justification. We go on to elucidate the full range of factors which must be considered for there to be a rigorous application of the cost-benefit assessment. Thirdly, we also consider how the practice...
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