...The article that I found relating to what we are learning is, Labor Market Consequences Of State Health Insurance Regulation by R. Kaestner (2002). Kaestner begins her article by explaining that in the past decade, most states in the U.S. have passed legislation that regulates issuance, content, and pricing of private group health insurance plans. She continues to explain that the purpose of this legislation is to raise the number of insured persons and ensure that people who are sick receive needed care. One major reason for implementing new legislation was the fact that there were so many uninsured people that were employed (Kaestner, 2002). According to the U.S. Census Bureau 2000, twenty-three million people between the ages of eighteen and sixty-four were employed but uninsured in the U.S. in 1987. Furthermore, that number increased throughout the late eighties (U.S. Census Bureau, 2000). Kaestner believes that the reason for so many uninsured employed people is that insurance industries refused to sell insurance to companies that are considered high-risk companies. Because of that, one out of every two employees were uninsured. Kaestner explains that to combat this, states started limiting insurance companies’ unfair practices through legislation called reform. Furthermore, Kaestner explains that another major reason that led to a change in laws and legislation was state regulated mandated health insurance benefits. She explains that in order to ensure that people still...
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...Article Review: Pension Plans Benefits HRM 599 Devry University’s Keller Graduate School of Management October 7, 2013 Professor Brian Nisbet Yolanda M. Green Pension Plans The article entitled “Pension Plans” was written by Al Thomas, with means of informing workers of the different types of retirement plans that should be accessible by their employer. The article was also written to explain which of those plans are better for employees to choose from in order to maximize the amount of money that they will receive after retirement. During the time of this articles publishing, it appeared that some companies were using unreal rate of returns for projections of better profits (Pension Plans). The rest of this article review will give insight on the two different options that employees can choose from when deciding on retirement plans and how to be sure that each move after will help them achieve their main goals, which should be retirement savings. The article mentions the first type of pension plan that is available to employees, which is called the “Defined Contribution Plan”. Under this plan you will be able to put in any amount of money into your retirement plan and in return the company will match a certain percentage of that. During this week in our class discussions we talked a lot about employer match contribution amounts and if we thought that it was enough for someone to survive at retirement. A lot of classmates...
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...Obesity and Health Care Costs Renee Gordon HRM 599 – Benefits Keller Graduate School of Management Review The article “Moderate and Severe Obesity Have Differences in Health Care Costs” was published in the journal Obesity Research. The article analyzes the health care usage and costs associated with varying degrees of obesity of a 2002 study of a focus group of individuals 54 to 69 years old. Health care costs have been steadily increasing over the last few years. Not coincidentally, obesity has also been on the rise, and has helped contribute to the rising costs of health care. Obesity levels are based on a person’s BMI rating. The ratings are: “Normal weight: 18.5 < BMI < 25 Overweight: 25 < BMI < 30 Moderate Obesity: 30 < BMI < 35 Severe Obesity: 35 < BMI < 40 Extreme Obesity: BMI > 40” (Tatiana Andreyeva, 2004) The article provided some interesting statistics on the rate of increase of health care costs compared with the different levels of obesity. The study was broken down between men and women, and provided different statistics for each group. It was found that in men, health care costs increased the most between moderate and severe obesity, with costs coming in at $4738 for moderately obese men and $6179 for severely obese men. That is a $1441 increase between the two classifications. For women, the largest increase in cost came between severe and extreme obesity. The cost associated with the two classes was $5723 for...
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...Article Review HRM 599-Benefits The article I have researched for this article review was written according to the New York Times was about “how a small business owners have problems with unemployment claims and one owner who was surprised when an unemployment claim came across her desk by an employee who had quit more than a year before (Mount, 2011)”. Her company who had hired the employee after the employee’s company had went out of business then that owner rehired the employee after his business became booming again then he went out of business which left that employee unemployed so the owner of the company was responsible for the unemployment claim. Since the owner’s account was put into deficit that threatened her unemployment insurance tax rate even though the employee had voluntarily left her company. The owner felt that this claim shouldn’t be right and that she would be afraid to hire anyone else. Another employer unknowing of the law hired and then fired an employee without proper documentation leading to the employee obtaining unemployment benefits in which they learned their lesson and had no trouble since they filed the proper documentation. With the current economy in the condition it is in and at the unemployment rate at the time of the article at 9 percent which is really high, smaller businesses don’t understand how the unemployment insurance premiums are computed. With the system it varies by state to state but the owner’s should understand the...
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...Disclosures About CSR Practices: A Literature Review Kavitha W * and Anita P ** Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is now prominent and evident more than ever due to the emphasis laid on businesses regarding environmental, social and ethical issues. The level of CSR activities of the firms is made known to public only through the disclosures. This paper reviews the literature on CSR disclosures and the effect of these disclosures. There are various factors which determine the extent of disclosures like the size of the firm, industry, high visibility, etc. Introduction Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is now prominent and evident more than ever due to the emphasis laid on businesses regarding environmental, social and ethical issues. This is because over the recent years, there have been social, political and economic pressures on corporate management to pay attention on social and environmental consequences of corporate activities. These pressures motivated the corporate management to actively participate in a wide range of social welfare activities. CSR now-a-days covers almost all issues like the use of child labor; inequality of employment; environmental impact; involvement in local community; products’ safety; company cultures; brand image and reputation. Apart from this, companies are now disclosing these activities in their annual reports, and one of the parameters to judge the performance of a company is CSR reporting. Corporate Social Responsibility ...
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...Alicia Lenard Week 4 Submission Sections 2 – 5 Professor Bonnie Turner HRM-599-71209 March 28, 2015 Issue Statement Providing innovative and inclusive strategies that gauge employee desires and needs can be a critical factor in employee access to programs. Ensuring that employees have a clear understanding of program offerings can increase employee productivity, decrease employer health related costs and loss of outputs while increasing the knowledge and buy in of employees. If employees have limited understanding of benefit programs and the programs themselves are obsolete to employee needs and current trends, the sponsoring organization is wasting financial resources and contributing to the potential decrease in employee productivity due to unmet health and wellness related needs. Martocchio (2014), discusses the responsibilities of benefit professionals as providing assistance to employees surrounding education on the various options of benefit programs as well as their need for expertise in designing and administering benefits programs. He further discusses the importance of benefit professionals remaining current on trends and innovative approaches to practices and development of benefit programs. The text additionally states that many employees have minimal understanding of the wordage and regulations attached to the components of the benefits packages. Traditional approaches to developing and marketing health and wellness benefit programs in the organizational...
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...Business Studies University of Dhaka Date of Submission: 28th February, 2015 1.1 Introduction The concept of HRM became popular in the early 1980s; since then there has been increasing interest in the academic concept as well as in the research area. Early models of HRM were largely conceptual and not based on substantial empirical evidence for their validity (Beer, Spector, Lawrence, Miles & Walton, 1984; For burn, Tichy & Devanna,1984; Guest,1989). Human Resources (HR) are considered as the most important assets of an organization, but very few organizations are able to fully harness its potential (Ahmed & schroeder, 2002). Human resources system is a distinct but interrelated activities, functions and processes that are directed at attracting, developing and maintaining or disposing firms’ human resources (Lado & Wilson, 1994). Human resources in other words, well informed capable citizenry can improve the total ability of an organization, a society, a government agency and virtually of a country, of a nation (khan, 2003). Human resources are the most important assets of an organizations because without them the business functions such as managing cash flow, making business transactions, communicating through all forms of media, and dealing with customers could not be completed (Haslinda, 2009). Human Resource Management (HRM) is the function within an organization that focuses on recruitment of, management of, and providing direction for the people...
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...Management http://jom.sagepub.com/ What We Know and Don't Know About Corporate Social Responsibility: A Review and Research Agenda Herman Aguinis and Ante Glavas Journal of Management 2012 38: 932 originally published online 1 March 2012 DOI: 10.1177/0149206311436079 The online version of this article can be found at: http://jom.sagepub.com/content/38/4/932 Published by: http://www.sagepublications.com On behalf of: Southern Management Association Additional services and information for Journal of Management can be found at: Email Alerts: http://jom.sagepub.com/cgi/alerts Subscriptions: http://jom.sagepub.com/subscriptions Reprints: http://www.sagepub.com/journalsReprints.nav Permissions: http://www.sagepub.com/journalsPermissions.nav >> Version of Record - May 29, 2012 OnlineFirst Version of Record - Mar 1, 2012 What is This? Downloaded from jom.sagepub.com at Sunway Education Group on April 23, 2014 Journal of Management Vol. 38 No. 4, July 2012 932-968 DOI: 10.1177/0149206311436079 © The Author(s) 2012 Reprints and permission: http://www. sagepub.com/journalsPermissions.nav What We Know and Don’t Know About Corporate Social Responsibility: A Review and Research Agenda Herman Aguinis Indiana University Ante Glavas University of Notre Dame The authors review the corporate social responsibility (CSR) literature based on 588 journal articles and 102 books and book chapters. They offer a multilevel and multidisciplinary theoretical framework that...
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...3122-prelims.qxd 10/29/03 2:20 PM Page i International Human Resource Management 3122-prelims.qxd 10/29/03 2:20 PM Page ii 3122-prelims.qxd 10/29/03 2:20 PM Page iii second edition International Human Resource Management edited by A n n e - Wi l H a r z i n g J o r i s Va n R u y s s e v e l d t SAGE Publications London l Thousand Oaks l New Delhi 3122-prelims.qxd 10/29/03 2:20 PM Page iv © Anne-Wil Harzing and Joris van Ruysseveldt, 2004 First published 2004 Apart from any fair dealing for the purposes of research or private study, or criticism or review, as permitted under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988, this publication may be reproduced, stored or transmitted in any form, or by any means, only with the prior permission in writing of the publishers, or in the case of reprographic reproduction, in accordance with the terms of licences issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency. Enquiries concerning reproduction outside those terms should be sent to the publishers. SAGE Publications Ltd 1 Olivers Yard London EC1Y 1SP SAGE Publications Inc 2455 Teller Road Thousand Oaks, California 91320 SAGE Publications India Pvt Ltd B-42, Panchsheel Enclave Post Box 4109 New Delhi 100 017 British Library Cataloguing in Publication data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN 0 7619 4039 1 ISBN 0 7619 4040 5 (pbk) Library of Congress Control Number...
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...contributors Preface Authors’ acknowledgements Tour of the book HRM as I see it: video and text feature Publisher’s acknowledgements Key topics grid xviii xx xxi xxii xxv xxxiii xxxiv xxxvi xxxviii xl 1 2 2 2 3 3 3 4 5 6 8 9 9 13 16 17 18 18 20 22 22 24 25 27 30 I the arena of contemporary human resource management 1 the nature of contemporary HRM John Bratton Outline Objectives Introduction The development of HRM Keynesianism: collectivism and personnel management HRM in practice 1.1: A new role for HR professionals Neo-liberalism: individualism and HRM Management and HRM The meaning of ‘human resource’ The meaning of ‘management’ The nature of the employment relationship Scope and functions of HRM Theoretical perspectives on HRM HRM in practice 1.2: Twenty-first-century senior HR leaders have a changing role The Fombrun, Tichy and Devanna model of HRM The Harvard model of HRM The Guest model of HRM The Warwick model of HRM The Storey model of HRM HRM and globalization: The HRM model in advancing economies? Ulrich’s strategic partner model of HRM Studying HRM Critique and paradox in HRM viii contents ix Case study: Canterbury Hospital Summary, Vocab checklist for ESL students, Review questions and Further reading to improve your mark 33 34 37 37 37 38 38 39 41 44 44 45 46 48 50 52 54 55 56 56 58 60 62 65 66 69 69 69 70 70 71 72 72 73 73 74 77 78 80 81 88 92 2 corporate strategy and strategic HRM John Bratton Outline Objectives Introduction Strategic management...
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...Executive Summery Most of the South Asian economies (e.g. India, Pakistan and Bangladesh) have made significant economic progress in the last two decades and are well on track to becoming major regional or even world economic powerhouses. In the recent years, many MNCs are increasingly putting more attention to the emerging. Asian countries for competitive advantage. One classic example is China. With a population of more than 1.3 billion China is predicted to be the largest economy in the world by next 20 years surpassing United States (UN Report 2007). China has become the manufacturing and investment hub for many MNCs. Despite huge success for most of the MNCs, many already failed in doing business in China due to their management’s inability to manage their human resources appropriately. Taking the Chinese lead like the tiger economies in Asia, Bangladesh is also emerging as a dynamic and significant economic player in South Asia. Bangladesh is one of the pioneers in the region for economic liberalization. It has adopted the best policies of South Asia to attract Foreign Direct Investment (FDI). Doing business in Bangladesh is much easier than most of the developing countries. A recent report entitled “Doing Business in 2007: Creating Jobs” published jointly by World Bank and IFC placed Bangladesh in 68th position in terms of easy of doing business among 175 countries (World Bank, 2007). This places Bangladesh ahead of other countries in the region such as India (88th)...
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...Journal of Management http://jom.sagepub.com/ The Impact of High-Performance Human Resource Practices on Employees' Attitudes and Behaviors Rebecca R. Kehoe and Patrick M. Wright Journal of Management 2013 39: 366 originally published online 8 April 2010 DOI: 10.1177/0149206310365901 The online version of this article can be found at: http://jom.sagepub.com/content/39/2/366 Published by: http://www.sagepublications.com On behalf of: Southern Management Association Additional services and information for Journal of Management can be found at: Email Alerts: http://jom.sagepub.com/cgi/alerts Subscriptions: http://jom.sagepub.com/subscriptions Reprints: http://www.sagepub.com/journalsReprints.nav Permissions: http://www.sagepub.com/journalsPermissions.nav >> Version of Record - Jan 23, 2013 OnlineFirst Version of Record - Apr 8, 2010 What is This? Downloaded from jom.sagepub.com at HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIV on January 21, 2014 Journal of Management Vol. 39 No. 2, February 2013 366-391 DOI: 10.1177/0149206310365901 © 2010 Southern Management Association. Reprints and permission: http://www. sagepub.com/journalsPermissions.nav The Impact of High-Performance Human Resource Practices on Employees’ Attitudes and Behaviors Rebecca R. Kehoe Patrick M. Wright Cornell University Although strategic human resource (HR) management research has established a significant relationship between high-performance HR practices and firm-level financial and market outcomes...
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...Journal of Knowledge Management Knowledge management in organizations: examining the interaction between technologies, techniques, and people Ganesh D. Bhatt Article information: To cite this document: Ganesh D. Bhatt, (2001),"Knowledge management in organizations: examining the interaction between technologies, techniques, and people", Journal of Knowledge Management, Vol. 5 Iss 1 pp. 68 - 75 Permanent link to this document: http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/13673270110384419 Downloaded on: 28 September 2014, At: 06:01 (PT) References: this document contains references to 20 other documents. To copy this document: permissions@emeraldinsight.com The fulltext of this document has been downloaded 11983 times since 2006* Downloaded by University of Bahrain At 06:01 28 September 2014 (PT) Users who downloaded this article also downloaded: Karl M. Wiig, (1997),"Knowledge Management: An Introduction and Perspective", Journal of Knowledge Management, Vol. 1 Iss 1 pp. 6-14 Rory L. Chase, (2007),"The expanding world of knowledge management", Journal of Knowledge Management, Vol. 11 Iss 3 pp. Roelof P. uit Beijerse, (1999),"Questions in knowledge management: defining and conceptualising a phenomenon", Journal of Knowledge Management, Vol. 3 Iss 2 pp. 94-110 Access to this document was granted through an Emerald subscription provided by 382676 [] For Authors If you would like to write for this, or any other Emerald publication, then please use our Emerald for Authors...
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