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Pharmacy Benefits: Plan Design and Management

Pharmaceuticals have become an integral component of medical treatment, with some medications completely transforming health care outcomes and delivery. Drug therapy has been proven to reduce health care costs, increase productivity and enhance the quality of life for many people. This primer offers factors to consider when designing or modifying pharmacy benefits, including the pros and cons of carving benefits into a health plan as well as carving them out as a separate prescription drug plan. A practical checklist is provided in almost every chapter to help you focus on important issues, including what questions to ask potential vendors.


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How to be good at Performance Appraisals

David Grote provides a concise, hands-on guide to succeeding at every step of the performance appraisal process—no matter what performance management system your organization uses. Through step-by-step instructions, examples, lists of dos and don’ts, sample dialogues, and suggested scripts, he shows you how to handle every appraisal activity from setting goals and defining job responsibilities to evaluating performance quality and discussing the performance evaluation face-to-face.

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The New Health Care Reform Law: What Employers Need to Know - A Q&A Guide, Second Edition

A book designed to help benefits professionals and plan sponsors make a smooth transition under the health care reform legislation enacted in March 2010. In a question and answer format, the focus is on information needed to implement the reform mandates. Answers, whenever possible, begin with a “yes” or “no” followed by the “how” and “why.” Also included are sample notices, forms and policies to help implement reform requirements more quickly and efficiently.
This second edition features a special section called "Strategic Planning" to help employers plan responses to the requirements, estimate compliance costs and understand the implications of compliance.


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Taking the Mystery out of Retirement Planning

Patrick Berry, President, CONCERT Retirement Plan Consulting: “I recommend this simple publication from the Department of Labor, Employee Benefits Security Administration. I give it out to participants at all my 401(k) enrollment/education meetings. The publication is FREE, produced by the DOL, so there are no issues of bias or conflicts of interests. It is simple, easy to read, very informative, includes worksheets to help individuals plan, and provides links to online resources for additional information.”


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Managing the older worker: How to prepare for the new organizational order

In today’s workplace, many older employees are reporting to younger bosses. This shift presents unfamiliar challenges that – if ignored – can prevent your company from attracting, retaining and engaging older employees.


In Managing the Older Worker, Peter Cappelli and Bill Novellin explain how companies and younger managers can negotiate this new territory and maximize the value provided by older workers.

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Profit at the bottom of the ladder: Creating value by investing in your workforce

Researcher Jody Heymann confronts the myth that high-skilled, highly educated employees are the only ones worth investing in and that cutting wages and benefits for the workers at the bottom of the corporate ladder is the fastest and most effective way to improve the bottom line.


Based on more than a dozen years of research into the working conditions of thousands of employees on six continents, Profit at the bottom of the ladder shows how companies from around the globe have excelled financially by offering their least-skilled employees higher wages, flexible scheduling, better health care benefits, profit sharing, training, career development opportunities and more.


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Winning with a Culture of Recognition: Recognition Strategies at the World's Most Admired Companies

Authored by Eric Mosley and Derek Irvine, Winning with a Culture of Recognition takes the misused rewards and recognition programs of the past century and transforms it into the must-have business strategy for managing a culture in the 21st century.


Sharing proven strategies implemented by such leading companies as Symantec, Intuit, Dow Chemical, and Amgen, Mosley and Irvine provide HR and business leaders with a blueprint on how to create a positive culture of recognition and appreciation.


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