Best Practices in Implementing Work-Life Balance Programs Srirang Jha Apeejay School of Management, New Delhi E-mail: sjha.asm@gmail.com Swarn Kant Mishra Footwear Design & Development Institute, Noida E-mail: mishra.swarnkant@gmail.com Abstract Work-life balance programs are important for contemporary organizations not only for ensuring long-term wellbeing and good health of the employees but also to attain long-term competitiveness. There have been a number of researches establishing
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Informational Message PROBLEM You are the head of the catalog sales department of Branford’s, a large department store in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Most of your 17 full-time employees are high school graduates, many of them female. For beginning workers, you pay $2.50 over the minimum wage, plus fringe benefits. Send a message to your employees informing them that management has decided that no one can take vacation or personal days during the months of November and December. The reason
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Speaking from the perspective of a principal in an architectural firm of about 120 people, I have found that diversity causes us to be more aware of various situations and provide benefits in a way that don't skew those benefits so that they are more available to one group than to another. Also, we have stopped using the term "Work/Life Balance" and instead use "Work/Life Blend". Work and Life are never balanced. Both create demands on the individual, and the individual must chose when one
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beyyond the financial benefits of a degree •Summary •Introduction •Graduate job quality •The health benefits of a degree •Intergenerational effects •Citizenship •Positive attitudes •Spillover to the wider economy •Anything else? •References •Footnotes Summary Mark Wilberforce from the Department of Education and Skills gives a lowdown on the non-monetary benefits of a degree. Research suggests that: •Graduates enjoy higher quality jobs than non-graduates. •Graduates enjoy better
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Benefit Plan Chateaux is currently a small businesses with plans to grow and expand nationally and internationally. With that being said, we’ve planned a careful phase-in of employee benefits so that we can continue to attract and retain the talent needed for further growth and expansion. We plan to expand this employee benefits package in the future as resources allow. Enclosed is a compensation and Benefits package prepared primarily toward full time employees. As seen below, full timers
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Executive Summary rocky mountain is a three years old insurance company in suburban and remote area of utah. It has a fitness centre featuring an indoor walking running track and most of the employees visit this fitness center. The establishment cost for this center was around one million dollars and the rubbing cost as of now is also very high due to maintenance and the other services. Keeping this in view Zachary Evans the new VP, operations of the company plans to shut down the fitness center
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salary? A salary is a form of periodic payment from an employer to an employee, which may be specified in an employment contract. Salary is a fixed amount of money or compensation paid to an employee by an employer in return for work performed. Salary is commonly paid in fixed intervals, for example, monthly payments of one-twelfth of the annual salary. As explained earlier Money that is received under Employer-Employee relationship is called as Salary . If one is freelancer or are hired by
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Sample Budget Notes and Guidance – from the Global Sustainable Tourism Alliance Program NAME OF ORGANIZATION PROJECT NUMBER AND NAME OF GSTA COUNTRY PROGRAM SAMPLE BUDGET NARRATIVE TO BE ADAPTED TO SPECIFIC PROPOSAL SITUATION Organization Name is pleased to provide its cost proposal in response to GSTA’s RfA… The budget for the proposed period of support is estimated for xxx months with a projected period of performance through dates. The following provides
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Running head: SUSTAINING EMPLOYEE PERFORMANCE PAPER Sustaining Employee Performance Paper Alejandro Zatarain, Jamie Lewandoski, George Hull SEC/300 March 28, 2016 Chris Bingham In this paper we will be discussing two positions of the Elias Group Organization. The two positions that we will discuss would be the Director of Technical Services and the Director of Administration and HR. We will describing the functions of performance management, suggest two jobs evaluations, compare
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COST ALLOCATION PROBLEM Bull Total 500 1,500 2,000 $2,500 $1,400 10 $3,300 $1,600 30 $5,800 $3,000 40 $42,000 $12,000 $10,500 $14,400 $31,500 $36,400 $28.80 $24.27 Bull Number of woodcuts produced Direct materials costs Direct labor costs Number of batches Total overhead Batch setup costs (included in total overhead) Allocated Overhead Total Product Cost – Direct and Overheads Cost per unit produced Dogs Dogs New Total 500
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