The relationship between wellness participation and health care benefit utilization

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Worksite wellness programs began as a means of promoting health among employees and was viewed later on as a potential control for employers' health care spending. However, evaluation of wellness programs in terms of return on investment has proven to be a difficult process because many of the costs are future costs. Research was conducted to determine the cost impact of employee participation in wellness programs. Considered as measures of cost in the same study were employee absenteeism and the annual dollar amount of claims. Among other findings, the study revealed a slowdown in the rate of increasing claims among middle-aged participants in a wellness program.

Research, Medical care, Cost of, Health care costs, Wellness programs

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Changing perspectives of worker participation in India with particular reference to the banking industry

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Employee participation in management has traditionally been at a high level in India, although there is still potential for this trend to develop further. There have been moves towards empowering workers as part of total quality management programmes, and employers are becoming increasingly aware of the importance of human resource management. Informal schemes tend to be ineffective, and participative management schemes must be part of the human resource management approach of a company if they are to be truly successful.

India, Participatory management

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Participation may not be enough

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Speakers at the Irish Assn. of Pension Funds' annual conference held in Apr. 1996 declared that a European nation's inflation rate should not exceed by more than 1.5% the inflation rate of the three best inflation countries if it is to remain economically stable in a single currency Europe. They also stated that Ireland will lose control of its exchange-rate policy against the UK if its economy entered the the single currency system on Jan. 1, 1999.

Analysis, Economic aspects, Ireland, Inflation (Finance), Inflation (Economics)

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