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How To Develop Employee Handbook

HR Digest

Employee rights and responsibilities (including privacy, health care, social security, leave policy, etc.) . If applicable, include a list of contact details for human resources and management. What Should Be Included In An Employee Handbook? Company philosophy . Job requirements . Dress code . Code of ethics .

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3M’s SVP of HR Kristen Ludgate on a Better Way to Attract Top Talent

HR Digest

Kristen Ludgate, who leads 3M’s human resources team, talks to The HR Digest about the “15% culture” philosophy that has helped attract the industry’s most driven workers and how tough times can have a motivational impact on the workforce. Senior Vice President – Human Resources, 3M. COURAGE UNDER CHANGE.

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Is This the Hospital That Will Finally Push the Expensive U.S. Health Care System to Innovate?

Harvard Business Review

Will the same happen to health care in the United States? By almost any measure, American health care costs are out of control but the system refuses to change. What if you could provide excellent care at ultra-low prices at a location close to the U.S.? health-care system is striving to get to.”

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This Coalition of 20 Companies Thinks It Can Change U.S. Health Care

Harvard Business Review

For too long, employers have outsourced management of their employees’ health care benefits to those with little incentive to improve value. Engage health systems in change. The HTA “anticipates delivering better health care while reducing costs” through its members’ collective work.

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Fixing Health Care Will Require More than a New Payment System

Harvard Business Review

Yet much of what healthcare institutions need to do—facilities management, procurement, accounting, human resources—has little to do with the skills developed during medical training. We are already seeing ROI in terms of less waste of time, energy, and resources, which directly connects to effective care delivery.

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Stop Being So Positive

Harvard Business Review

In a study of health care providers, we found that those who used WOOP were significantly more engaged with their work and less stressed than members of a control group. Human resources Managing people Managing yourself' WOOP is simple, easy, and inexpensive — so much so that you might not think it would work.

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Predictive Medicine Depends on Analytics

Harvard Business Review

Energy, agriculture, insurance, retail, human resources — no industry is unaffected. But nowhere is the potential of this new era of opportunity more apparent and exciting than it is in health care. They can pinpoint treatments that sustain health in a more precise way than ever before. But not for long.