Wellness That Works
from Volume 4, Issue 4, October 2009
Health becomes a habit when wellness becomes a culture. Employers stand to save on health costs and gain employee productivity when wellness programs are robust.
New Realities or Temporary Shifts?
from Volume 4, Issue 3, July 2009
Recent surveys reflect the nation’s mood about work and retirement, but do the realities they point to signal long-term trends?
Executive Compensation in Six Steps
from Volume 4, Issue 2, April 2009
Designing an effective executive compensation program begins and ends with good governance practices.
Talent Tuneup
from Volume 4, Issue 1, January 2009
A tight economy presents an opportune time to take stock of undiscovered and underutilized talent.
Is Health-Care Reform Coming?
from Volume 3, Issue 4, October 2008
What shape might health-care reform take under the next U.S. president’s administration, and with what impact on employers?
Will They Stay or Go?
from Volume 3, Issue 3, July 2008
A growing pool of research points to employees working longer to compensate for retirement income shortfalls. For those who decide to go, how will employers bridge the financial literacy gap by helping employees prepare for life after work?
Taking Health Care Head-On
from Volume 3, Issue 2, April 2008
With rising claims and premium costs, institutions are implementing new approaches to assess risk, promote wellness and prevention, and encourage employees to prepare for post-payroll health-care expenses.
Limber Up
from Volume 3, Issue 1, January 2008
Work/life benefits may promise the best tool for increasing faculty and staff retention without breaking your institution's benefits budget.
Trends Shaping the Talent Search
from Volume 2, Issue 4, October 2007
How much institutional memory would you lose if two or three senior-level administrators left tomorrow? And who are the logical successors to fill the resulting vacancies? An executive search consultant raises those questions and more in this look at current hiring trends and their implications for higher education.
The Word on Generational Diversity
from Volume 2, Issue 3, July 2007
What are employers saying about the next employee “takeover” on the horizon as boomers begin to retire and millennials push a foot in the door? More to the point, how are institutions preparing for a new set of worker attributes and demands?
What Drives Retirement
from Volume 2, Issue 2, April 2007
Buyouts, phased retirement programs, and health insurance all play an increasing role in faculty decisions about when to leave an institution. Check out the key findings of a recent survey by the American Association of University Professors.
Why Workers Stay or Go
from Volume 2, Issue 1, January 2007
Results of Sibson Consulting’s 2006 Rewards of Work study includes a first-time focus on higher education institutions and how they compare to corporate employers.
HR as a Change Enabler
from Volume 1, Issue 2, October 2006
Is your institution prepared for human resource challenges that lie ahead? More than one third of respondents to a recent higher education survey say "no." NACUBO President and CEO John Walda highlights key findings from this joint association survey.
