March 2011

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A Practitioner’s Guide to Succession Planning
By Aaron Sorensen, Ph.D., and Deb Jacobs, MSOD
Despite a renewed focus on succession planning, many companies still don’t have a plan in place.

Features

What You Need to Know About Executive Pay in 2011
By Jim Heim
To help your company make better pay decisions, consider how other organizations are responding to the latest economic, regulatory and governance developments around executive pay programs.

How to Motivate and Engage Employees Postrecession
By Laura Sejen
Companies need to understand the impact cost-cutting actions have had on employees and how to mitigate that impact so they can retain and engage employees.

A Compliance Worksheet for the New Health-Care Rules
By Eddie Adkins, Jeff Martin and David Simonetti
Now that you know what the health-care legislation will require, you’ll need to know the details about how to implement the changes.

The Power of Continuity
Why Keeping Your Sales Compensation Program from Year to Year is Beneficial
By James Stoeckmann, CCP
Companies are backing off the “because-we’ve-always-done-it” mentality regarding revamping their sales compensation plans every year.

The Top-Down Approach to Work-Life
By Kim Callaway and Lucy English
Could workplaces that help employees balance work and family-care responsibilities improve employees’ health and well-being and ultimately experience lower overall health-care costs? Strong new evidence suggests they can.  

Removing Barriers to Wellness Program Success
By Michael Tarino
Employee wellness programs don’t always deliver the results companies want. Learn how to overcome two common challenges that prevent programs from being successful.

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