Benefits and Beyond ─ A Comprehensive and Strategic Approach to Retirement, Health Care, and More

Benefits and Beyond: A Comprehensive and Strategic Approach to Retirement, Health Care, and More provides readers with a variety of interdisciplinary principles and tools, including labor economics, human resources strategy, tax policy, metrics, and actuarial science. Rather than training students in the details of current benefits offerings, this text prepares students to deal with the future evolution of benefit designs and policy. Numerous cases, examples, and exercises engage readers and help them master the content.

Key Features

Includes a primer on actuarial concepts, which permeate benefit design and decision making

Provides global benefit comparisons between Europe, the United States, and the Pacific Rim and explores issues pertaining to ex-patriot assignments

Focuses on fundamental labor economic issues, legal issues pertaining to benefits, and life cycle events and their relationship to benefit needs

Covers both privately and publicly funded retirement plans as well as publicly funded retirement and health care programs

Helps readers understand how to align business, human resource management, and benefit strategies and how to include them in benefit principles and designs for the workplace

Offers a full range of benefit discussions, including retirement plans, health care, life insurance, equity benefits, disability plans, benefit administration, accommodation and convenience benefits, and the financing of private and public benefits
Intended Audience
This book is an appropriate brief core text for Employee Benefits courses or an ideal supplement for courses including Human Resource Management and Employee Compensation.

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