Benefits for the workplace of the future / edited by Olivia S. Mitchell ... [and others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mitchell, Olivia S.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Employee fringe benefits--United States.

Employee fringe benefits.

United States.

Compensation management--United States.

Compensation management.

Labor supply--United States.

Labor supply.

Pensions--United States.

Pensions.

Physical Description:

301 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia, [Pa.] : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003.

Summary:

From the Wharton School "Twenty contributors, an eclectic group of academics, employers, consultants, and policy makers, explore how workforce and workplace changes influence the design of future employee benefits in the US... . Highly recommended." --Choice

Contents:

The demographics of tomorrow's workplace

Benefits and productivity

How demographic change will drive benefits design

The benefits implications of recent trends in flexible staffing arrangements

New trends in pension benefit and retirement provisions

Implications of the difficult economy for company-sponsored retirement plans

Designing total reward programs for tight labor markets

Are career jobs headed for extinction?

Career jobs are dead

Reply: premature reports of demise

Benefits for the free agent workforce

Developments in global benefits administration

Delinking benefits from a single employer: alternative multiemployer models.

Notes:

"Pension Research Council, The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Given to the Penn Libraries by Margy Ellin Meyerson in memory of her husband, President Emeritus Martin Meyerson.

ISBN:

0812237080

OCLC:

51058960