From the Publisher
Extremely accessible, this indispensable resource offers practical, creative and workable solutions to the myriad health care benefit challenges confronting today's human resources professionals. Features over 400 of the most common and costly problems along with proven resolutions. Coverage includes work incentives, cafeteria plans, managed competition, disabled employees, flexible benefits, introducing managed care and provider packages. Also provides suggestions for anticipating problems before they arise and for tailoring preventive strategies to maintain productive employer/employee relations.
From the Inside Flap
Health care benefits are a top priority in today’s business organizations, and the people who administer them are now, more than ever before, viewed as playing a vital role in long-term company success. Consequently, benefits administrators are now expected to be more resourceful and imaginative than their counterparts of previous generations. Always with an eye to the bottom line, they must tailor more flexible programs for their companies, provide employee incentives, enhance workplace morale, and address the health, as well as illness, concerns of employees. And they have to do it all while making sense of the latest policies, regulations, and federal guidelines on everything from AIDS to maternity leave. Now, this timely book by Professor Charlotte McDaniel arms you with everything you need to do all of that —and much more! Certain to become an indispensable part of every benefits manager’s toolkit, this book is both a comprehensive problem solver for today’s health benefits challenges and a precise step-by-step guide to anticipating and planning for tomorrow’s. Written in a handy Q&A format, this book gives you immediate answers to virtually any benefits question you have or problem you encounter. From cafeteria plans, increased deductibles, and incentives to reduce sick days, to addressing the special challenges of physically disabled and high-risk workers, and introducing managed care and provider packages, you get creative, cost-effective, easy-to-implement solutions to more than 400 health care benefits problems. And all of the solutions have been tested and proven to work in both large and small companies nationwide. Emphasizing the need for strategic planning and forecasting, Professor McDaniel provides guidelines for assessing your current plan for strengths and weaknesses and for tailoring preventive benefits management approaches. She also offers a wealth of tips on a wide array of strategic management issues, such as how to use benefits to attract, keep, and reward employees; how to communicate changes in benefits packages to employees; how to reorient health care focus from illness to health and prevention; and how to deal with issues raised by the increasing use of part-time and temporary employees. Offering immediate practical solutions to hundreds of crucial benefits problems and clear, easy-to-follow guidelines for designing and strategically managing your company’s health care package, this book is an indispensable survival tool for today’s and tomorrow’s HRD manager.
