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Patricia Amend


Inc.'s Annual Compensation Survey

By Patricia Amend |  Sep 1, 1986

How small companies reward their key executives.  Read story

The Turnaround

By Patricia Amend |  Aug 1, 1986

How a dying division of International Harvester became one of America's most competitive small companies.  Read story

Compensation;

By Patricia Amend |  Jul 1, 1986

Companies have come up with a variety of compensation strategies for motivating salaried employees, but hourly workers pose a different challenge. For one...  Read story

Customer Service;

By Patricia Amend |  Jul 1, 1986

Many chief executive officers go out of their way to solicit customer complaints, but few are as clever about it as Charles Leighton, founder and chairman...  Read story

Travel;

By Patricia Amend |  Jun 1, 1986

The next time you hear your employees grousing about jet lag and the miseries of airline food, you might remind them that frequent flying does have its re...  Read story

Outside Advice;

By Patricia Amend |  Jun 1, 1986

The high cost of directors' liability insurance has made it a lot tougher for smaller companies to justify the cost of a board of directors. Put this tog...  Read story

Health Insurance;

By Patricia Amend |  Mar 1, 1986

When the going gets tough, the tough go shopping," as the saying goes, and now is a good time to be shopping for health insurance, but not because the goi...  Read story

Raises;

By Patricia Amend |  Feb 1, 1986

Merit raises ballooned to 9.1% in inflation-ridden 1982.Now they're down and still falling. Jittery about the economy, employers are cutting the ave...  Read story

Financial Tactics;

By Patricia Amend |  Jan 1, 1986

The inability of most companies to double-check every bill that comes through their accounting departments has spawned an industry of specialized auditors...  Read story

Compensation;

By Patricia Amend |  Dec 1, 1985

As the next recession draws ever closer, more and more states are adopting a program aimed at helping companies avoid, or at least minimize, the necessity...  Read story

Productivity;

By Patricia Amend |  Nov 1, 1985

Gain-sharing is an idea that first took hold in manufacturing companies, where it was used to reward employees for increased productivity. In recent year...  Read story

The Take At The Top;

By Patricia Amend |  Sep 1, 1985

In April 1980, Bill Ryan felt he had nowhere to turn. Granted, his trucking company's revenues had doubled every year since he had founded it five years ...  Read story

Exporting;

By Patricia Amend |  Aug 1, 1985

The strong dollar has proved a formidable adversary for U.S. companies that are interested in developing new markets. But it shouldn't stop exporters fro...  Read story

Productivity;

By Patricia Amend |  Apr 1, 1985

Ten years ago, about 500 U.S. companies had some form of gain-sharing plan -- a broad term that refers to programs that reward employees for improved outp...  Read story