This factsheet describes findings from a pilot project conducted in 2006-08 to integrate medical care for unionized janitorial workers in California. The principal participants were the workers’ union, Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 1877, and a major janitorial employer, DMS Facility Services. Collaborating organizations included Kaiser Permanente, workers’ compensation insu...

The present study aims to explain why research thus far has found only low to moderate associations between burnout and performance. We argue that employees use adaptive strategies that help them to maintain their performance (i.e., task performance, adaptivity to change) at acceptable levels despite experiencing burnout (i.e., exhaustion, disengagement). We focus on the strategies included in ...

Human resources (HR) and compensation professionals in australia were surveyed to determine how they communicate rewards information to employees. The rewards communications survey examined five reward components: organization reward strategy and philosophy, base pay, base-pay increases, short-term variable pay and benefits. This research found that HR and compensation professionals believe tha...

Economic and social pressures are forcing managers to examine how people get paid and what difference it makes. The foodservice industry uses tipping as a compensation method for many of its jobs. Research on tipping has focused on role conflict, views of the parties involved in the tipping process, and the relationship of tip size and other variables (Shamir, 1983; Lynn and Lantane, 1984; Lynn...

This paper derives analytically consumption and asset profiles when there are employment and unemployment risks and moral hazard. Without perfect insurance, consumption rises during employment and falls during unemployment. Optimal employment contracts that offer severance compensation smooth consumption during employment without causing moral hazard. A pre-announced delay in separation when th...

Labour unrest in the form of strike actions in both public and private corporate organizations underscore the importance employees attach to the issue of compensation. As a result, the human resource functions of many corporate organizations are challenged to develop and implement effective compensation schemes which will lead to the achievement of organizational goals. This study sought to exa...

Workers' compensation programs provide protection to workers and their families. The programs compensate for lost wages and medical expenses incurred as a result of work-related injuries or illnesses. Survivor benefits are also provided when the disabilities result in death. In 1991, about $16.8 billion in medical benefits and $25.3 billion in wage-loss compensation was paid in settlement of cl...