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Quality people management for quality outcomes: The Future of HR review of evidence on people management. Prepared by Wilson Wong, Alexandra Albert, Marianne Huggett and Jane Sullivan, August 2009 “People management is now as important a contributor to organisational success as marketing, finance, or sales yet HR suffers from a lack of self-confidence, undervaluation …
News release: “Taxpayers are getting a first hint of potential returns on their investment in the American automobile industry: Detroit is doing a much better job satisfying their customers, according to the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI). After having trailed competition for a long time, domestic automakers post a large gain in ACSI. Rising contentment …
News release: “The re-launched www.nationalgallery.org.uk is the first major gallery website to offer a full-screen zoom facility for its entire collection. Users can now examine every National Gallery masterpiece in outstanding detail, effortlessly sweep across digital canvases and zoom into minute details of their choosing. Also for the first time, users can now check the …
Rebuilding America – A National Policy Framework for Investment in Energy Efficiency Retrofits – Bracken Hendricks and Benjamin Goldstein, Center for American Progress – Reid Detchon and Kurt Shickman, Energy Future Coalition, August 2009. “This report is a detailed examination of how the United States can build a low-carbon economy by harnessing energy efficiency as …
“TransUnion.com released today the results of its analysis of trends in the mortgage industry for the second quarter of 2009 and the associated impact on the U.S. consumer. The report is part of an ongoing series of quarterly consumer lending sector analyses focusing on credit card, auto loan and mortgage data…Information for this analysis is …
Effect of the Economic Crisis on HR Programs – Update: August 2009 “In August 2009, Watson Wyatt continued our ongoing research on the economic crisis by surveying HR executives at 175 U.S.-based companies to understand what adjustments they are making to their HR programs (e.g., staffing, pay, benefits) in response to the economic downturn. This …
Employee Benefit Research Institute Databook on Employee Benefits, updated August 2009: “The EBRI Databook on Employee Benefits includes data from dozens of sources to provide a comprehensive analysis of how the employee benefits system works, who and what its various functions affect, and its relationship with the U.S. economy…The book is organized into four sections …
GreenerComputing Staff: “A new article in the journal Environmental Science & Technology looks at the market for reuse of exported computers and other electronics and finds that there is plenty of life in those old machines — although e-waste exports still pose a significant environmental problem. The study [fee based], Product or Waste? Importation and …
Via Slate: Seeking How the brain hard-wires us to love Google, Twitter, and texting. And why that’s dangerous, by Emily Yoffe. “…Actually all our electronic communication devicese-mail, Facebook feeds, texts, Twitterare feeding the same drive as our searches. Since we’re restless, easily bored creatures, our gadgets give us in abundance qualities the seeking/wanting system finds …
Reuters/University of Michigan Surveys of Consumers, July 2009 release: “Consumer confidence slipped in July as consumers anticipated that their personal finances would improve more slowly than they had anticipated several months ago…Financial reversals were reported with equal frequency across all income subgroups, as was the expectation that joblessness would continue to increase..Although consumer spending will …
The Value of Provider Networks And the Role of Out-of-Network Charges In Rising Health Care Costs: A Survey of Charges Billed By Out-of-Network Physicians “Protecting consumers from runaway charges billed by some out-of-network physicians is an important policy issue at a time of major economic challenges and a national debate surrounding health care reforms. This …
Health Insurance Coverage of Individuals Ages 5564, 19942007 and The Basics of Social Security, Updated With the 2009 Board of Trustees Report, August 2009, Vol. 30, No. 8, Employee Benefit Research Institute, 2009 “MOST LIKELY TO HAVE COVERAGE: EBRI estimates from the latest Current Population Survey data show adults ages 5564 were one of two …
