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2008 Editorial Calendar & Deadlines
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January – Tools for Success in 2008 Advertorial Issue
Space Reservation: 11/9/2007
Materials Due: 11/21/2007
- How to be successful in 2008
- Total rewards
- Communication
- Integration, breaking down silos
- Strategy and business performance
- Attraction vs. retention
- Performance management
- Employee engagement
- Telework
- The relationship of CEOs and total rewards professionals
February – Survey Advertorial Issue
Space Reservation: 12/14/2007
Materials Due: 12/23/2007
- Work-life effectiveness
- Health and wellness
- Workplace flexibility
- Organizational and culture change
- Metrics of total rewards/evaluating program effectiveness
- HR/total rewards/benefits surveys
- How to conduct a proper survey
- Survey providers
- Trends in surveys/data collection/reporting
March
Space Reservation: 1/14/2008
Materials Due: 1/24/2008
- Variable pay around the globe/comparisons
- Development and career opportunities
- Career paths
- Succession planning
- The impact of total rewards on mergers and acquisitions
- Consumer-driven health care
- Executive compensation
- Workforce demographics outside the United States
April
Space Reservation: 2/14/2008
Materials Due: 2/22/2008
- Attraction, motivation and retention trends around the world
- Continuity of operations and telework
- Equity compensation
- Expatriate issues
- Severance trends
- Talent management
- Technology in total rewards
May – Annual Conference Issue (Bonus Distribution to WorldatWork Conference)
Space Reservation: 3/13/2008
Materials Due: 3/24/2008
- Global pay practices and trends
- Career planning for total rewards professionals
- Succession planning
- What is employee resilience?
- Health-care cost increases
- Sales compensation
June (Bonus Distribution to Benefits Practitioners)
Space Reservation: 4/11/2008
Materials Due: 4/25/2008
- Retiree benefits
- Global retirement trends
- Income protection (disability, long-term disability, long-term care, etc.)
- Compensation trends in health care
- Self-service benefits administration
- Caregiving and eldercare
July – Executive Compensation and Benefits Advertorial Issue
Space Reservation: 5/12/2008
Materials Due: 5/26/2008
- Aging and its impact on total rewards
- Global executive benefits and perquisites
- Technology’s increasing role in total rewards
- Flexible spending accounts
- Health-care funding
- Managing total rewards for a multigenerational workforce
August – Readex Advertising Effectiveness Survey
Space Reservation: 6/12/2008
Materials Due: 6/27/2008
- Expatriate/repatriate issues
- Market pricing
- Paid time off
- Retirement and financial education
- Recognition
- Global job leveling
- Cross-functional career development
September — WorldatWork Salary Budget Survey Issue
Space Reservation: 7/14/2008
Materials Due: 7/25/2008
- The shifting sales talent pool
- Job evaluation
- Internal vs. external equity
- Issues in base pay management (e.g., shift differentials)
- Managing performance
- Short-term and long-term designs/measures
- Alignment of rewards and performance measures
- Merit cycles/base pay management
- Global issues
- Competencies
- Flexible benefits
October – Partners in Practice: A Guide to Consulting Advertorial Issue
Space Reservation: 8/13/2008
Materials Due: 8/25/2008
- Work-life effectiveness
- Telework
- Flexible work arrangements
- Wellness benefits
- Executive compensation
- Outsourcing
- National Work and Family Month
- Attracting and retaining on- and off-ramp employees
November —Spotlight on Performance and Recognition
*Focus on Asia Pacific — workspan Supplement
Space Reservation: 9/12/2008
Materials Due: 9/25/2008
- Recognition by generation
- Performance management
- Enrollment
- Automated 401K enrollment
- Turnover (beyond prevention)
- Total rewards case studies
December
Space Reservation: 10/13/2008
Materials Due: 10/24/2008
- Geographic pay
- Premiums vs. differentials or separate structures
- How, why, rationale, pros, cons, trends
- Paid time off banks
- Controlling rising prescription drug costs
- Mentoring
- Generational work styles
- Benefits trends
*Media Calendar subject to change
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