Benefits/HR


Recent Benefits/HR Articles

Screening New Hires

Employee-screening companies offer one of the cheapest and fastest ways to help you hire successfully.  Read more

Popular Perks

Chart showing the most common privileges granted to employees of small companies.  Read more

Finding Management Temps

Listing of interim-management agencies.  Read more

Outsourcing Your Top Management

Interim-management agencies provide seasoned executives to small companies without requiring a commitment.  Read more

Piquing Employee Interest

Keeping employees motivated with a combination of bonuses and imaginative events.  Read more

Sorry, Our Office is Closed

Survey showing the vacation policies of small companies.  Read more

Corporate Games

Start-up providing seminars training services using corporate games.  Read more

How to Unite Field and Phone Sales

Fostering teamwork motivation among in-house telemarketers independent field sales reps.  Read more

Guiding Failed Employees

Helping employees who don't work out find new positions.  Read more

Team-building Techniques

Team building techniques to motivate employees.  Read more

Top Exec's Paychecks

Ernst Young chart comparing the salaries of top executives and CEOs.  Read more

Getting Drug-free

Implementing sensitively designed employee drug-testing programs.  Read more

A Slowdown in New ESOPs

NCEO chart reflecting the growth of ESOPs in the last six years.  Read more

Giving Part-Time Workers Benefits

Why CEO Howard Schultz of Starbucks Coffee provides competitive benefits to his part-time employees.  Read more

Do Small-Company Benefits Measure Up?

Chart reflecting the superior benefits offered by large companies as opposed to small companies.  Read more

Network: July 1992

Network reader-to-reader advice.  Read more

Are Health-Care Costs Making You Sick?

FaxPoll results on rising health-care costs small business.  Read more

The Complete New-Business Survival Guide

Inc.'s catalog of the best books, agencies, networking groups and information sources for the self-educating CEO.  Read more

Fighting Workers' Comp Fraud

Problems with employees filing fraudulent workers' compensation claims.  Read more

Detecting Fraud

Steps an employer can take to unmask workers' compensation fraud.  Read more

Fraud Alert

Resources for spotting reporting worker's compensation fraud.  Read more

Quality with Tears

Profile of the rapid growth growing pains of an industrial hardware components distributor.  Read more

Getting New Recruits on Track

New employee orientation approach helps new hires to understand the company what is expected of them.  Read more

Affordable Wellness Programs

Promoting healthful habits in small businesses.  Read more

Creating a Wellness Program

Various resources for promoting health programs within the company.  Read more

CEO's Pay Strategies

Strategies for CEOs who want to withdraw money from their start-up operations.  Read more

How Much Should I Pay Myself?

Self-compensation survey focusing on four CEOs' personal salary practices.  Read more

Network: June 1992

Network questions and answers.  Read more

Health-Care-Cost Headaches

NSBU chart of the percentage increase in health premiums for small business.  Read more

Cutting Through Insurance Jargon

Insurance terminology some money saving tips.  Read more

How to Read a Claims-Loss Statement

Investigating and verifying claims-loss statements to control insurance costs.  Read more

Playing for Keeps

Public relations firm reorganizes employee structures responsibilities to continue growing successfully.  Read more

How to Fire

Insight into successful firing and hiring practices.  Read more

Lowering Turnover by Using Apprentices

Using an apprenticeship program to lower turnover and cut service time.  Read more

Who's at Fault for Unemployment Overpayments?

Department of Labor chart depicting those responsible for unemployment overpayments.  Read more