Benefits: Get Ready for Elder Care
Two managers explain how their companies set up and offered senior care insurance to employees. Read story
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Performance Reviews: Covering Your Assets
Documentation of employee reviews is a key way to protect a company, explains a manager in this short piece. Read story
ISO 9000: The Inside Advantage
A company's use of ISO 9000 as a way to establish work procedures and standards is examined. Read story
Communication: Keep Employees Informed
A trucking firm's CEO tells briefly of an audio-tape program his company uses to keep communication lines open. Read story
Teams: Service Teams That Work
A program that uses teams of employees to tackle issues like marketing and quality. Read story
Benefits: 401(k) Educations
A 401(k) expert suggests tips on how to legally communicate to employees information about your plan. Read story
Benchmark: Communicating 401(k) Information
Graphs displaying information on how various small businesses communicate 401(k) information to employees. Read story
Read On: 'Working Wisdom'
A review of the Robert Aubrey and Paul Cohen book, Working Wisdom: Timeless Skills and Vanguard Strategies. Read story
The New Dog-Eat-Dog Nonprofit
The profile of a non-profit educational camp for at-risk kids and how it learned to compete for corporate funding. Read story
Change Masters: Homegrown Employees
Three senior executives discuss how they hire and were hired, and how they meet the demands of their company. Read story
Diversity: More Than Just Affirmative Action
A look at a CEO who learned his company's affirmative action program was inadequate, and how he corrected it. Read story
Family Business: Granting Stock -- Kind Of
A plan that allows a family-owned company to offer stock to select personnel while retaining family control. Read story
Benchmark: Sources of Conflict in Family Businesses
Three graphs that display the hottest issues of contention between generations in long-term family businesses. Read story
Workplace: Out to Lunch
An overview of a program that pays for employees' lunches in order to promote communication and performance. Read story
Resumes: Read Between the Lines
Four chief executives of growing companies share some of the more inventive screens they apply to resumes. Read story
Reading Groups: The Book Stops Here
An HR expert tells how her company has started voluntary reading groups to explore new team-building techniques. Read story
Accounting: Plan Ahead with Allowance Accounts
This offers a look at how a CEO set up allowance accounts to account for large, predictable expenses each month. Read story
Long Hours for Long Weekends
The results are positive for a company who gives employees every other Friday off. Read story
Healthy Workers Cost Less
Creating incentives to keep workers healthy so that health insurance will cost less. Read story
ADR as Part of the Culture
One company creates a dispute resolution program to avoid potential lawsuits. Read story
How Companies Use Arbitration
Benchmark chart illustrating how arbitration can be a cost-effective way to stay out of court. Read story
Staying Out of Court
Advice and resources on using alternative dispute resolution (ADR) to settle employee disputes out of court. Read story
Check My References-Please!
A company encourages prospective hires to check the business's references. Read story
Who's Holding the Cards?
A company shares the profits with employees who help out newcomers. Read story
Time Off for Kid Stuff
Some states are requiring employers to give parents time off to attend school events. Read story
An Alternative to Drug Testing
Two companies develop innovative alternatives to drug testing. Read story
Work-Injury Costs
Chart illustrating the cost of work-related injuries and deaths. Read story
Build Self-Esteem
Tips from one company owner on building the self-esteem of your workers. Read story
Make It Part of the Routine
A company that has made in-house training part of its corporate culture. Read story
What You Don't Know Can Hurt You
Book that gives employers the facts about managing employees and the law. Read story
Be Sure You Do Your Homework
Advice about using an employee leasing firm. Read story
Managing Health-Care Costs
Chart illustrating how small and midsize companies reduce their health-care costs. Read story
Promoting: Getting the Right Fit
A short article about a senior manager who is using an organizational psychologist to help with promotions. Read story
Benefits: Time Off You Can Bank On
An overview of a company's time-off policy that allows employees to control how and when they take time off. Read story
Benchmark: Managing Paid Time Off
Two graphs displaying information about companies that are using paid-time-off banks. Read story
Workplace Theft: Preventing Employee Pilferage
Some tips to protect your company from employee theft, including a book on checking workers' backgrounds. Read story
Regulation: Your Own FMLA Policy
Tips on how to comply with the Family and Medical Leave Act, as well as some publications on the topic. Read story
Benchmark: Employee Participation
Some data showing that over 80% of fast-growth companies have instituted employee-participation plans. Read story
Are Your Kids Good Enough to Run Your Business?
Even if you've never considered your company a family business, that question could be very important. Read story
Pass It On
The story of one company founder who tried to leave her company in her children's hands. Read story
