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Carving Out Health-care Savings

For years, health-care management was cut into two slices-medical and dental. Now, HR i...

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Prudential Measures HR With A Total-quality Yardstick

Prudential Resources Management has embarked on an ambitious plan to align its HR syste...

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Day’s Wage_Day’s Work The Old Employment Contract

Some elements of the old employment contract.

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Taking the Sweat Out of Communication Anxiety

When a Whirlpool division set up new work teams, line supervisors had to become team ad...

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Union Carbide’s Lessons on Managed Care

We turned to managed care to gain control of costs. And it’s working.

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The Future of Contingent Work

Contingent work has continually evolved since its inception. And contingent work will c...

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Intel Takes Its Educational Commitment to Higher Levels

But the company’s involvement with education doesn’t stop with high school graduation. ...

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Learning to Manage Host-country Nationals

Multinationals are increasingly committed to hiring local managers. But the greatest ch...