Build a better HR department with this insider’s look at the HR structures of real companies in a wide range of industries: manufacturing, education, government, finance, insurance, health care, retail trade, transportation, utilities, and others. See what others are doing and benchmark your organization against theirs.

This new print series provides the practical, strategic HR documents you need -- including mission statements, organization charts, and job descriptions -- to organize your department and keep it running flawlessly.

The most powerful tool to design, analyze, compare, administer, and communicate compensation and benefits programs that comply with legal requirements. Find out about industry trends and new practices in Benefits & Compensation Management Update (also available separately), then find out how to implement them using the practical information in Compensation & Benefits Guide. Special planning and design tools help you tackle and track day-to-day and long-term administrative challenges. Boost your productivity, expedite research, speed through your responsibilities, and save time! Research expert analysis and full-text agency documents to help handle a wide range of inquiries from employees and colleagues. Get the most complete compensation and benefits solution with new content collections featuring Total Rewards, Fast Answers, and Setting and Managing Compensation. New Enhancements include Topic Navigation, Customized Menus Homepage, Saved Searches, Favorite Documents, and more!

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The practical, up-to-date guidance and easy-to-understand analysis found in the Guide help you spot HR trends, handle employee issues with confidence, and comply with all points of law. Customize your homepage to include your Favorite Documents, and benefit from other enhanced features and functions. Complemented with the weekly news found in Bulletin to Management, you get an emphasis on practical strategies to improve productivity and performance and limit potential liabilities.

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Essential HR information, plus practical strategies in a weekly newsletter.

Get weekly updates on new international employment laws, workplace trends, compliance and safety issues, best-practice information, and survey reports covering nearly 40 countries. Includes a primer on international HR, as well as chapters with helpful discussion and analysis.

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The industry’s most exhaustive research on HR department budgets, staffing, and responsibilities, produced by the leaders in HR information and training. Hundreds of companies participate in the survey, a large sample size that yields the clearest picture of your profession. Find out how your HR department compares with those in other companies, to justify strategic changes and improve productivity. Spot trends early. Count on BNA to help you make the most efficient use of time and money in today's economy.

Solve your HR questions with authoritative, regularly updated information on the full range of HR responsibilities. The acclaimed Library offers HR professionals comprehensive, plain-English coverage of virtually every issue HR departments must address in the areas of personnel management, fair employment practices, compensation, wages and hours, and labor relations.

Comply with legal requirements with access to detailed summaries of state and federal laws, regulations, and agency guidelines. Stay ahead of the curve with hot-off-the-press newsletters, e-mail updates, and Websites. Resolve issues easily with Fast Answers, an interactive tool providing reliable responses to 2,400 questions on everyday HR topics. Create documents customized for your organization, modeled after those used in actual companies, including job descriptions, evaluations, and HR policies.

Topic Navigator helps you research broader, narrower, and related subjects with a simple click. Other recent additions and enhancements include Favorite Documents, Recently Visited Topics, Quick Links, and Search History/Saved Search.Simultaneously search up to 5 states for useful comparative information with Quick Search by state. Interactive forms save time and are downloadable on both the Web and CD Library.

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Plan strategically and create sound policies, as well as meet everyday challenges, with focused news, practical information, and expert insights. Every month this resource is supplemented with Workforce Strategies, providing focused, in-depth analysis and case studies to help you stay competitive. Have the information you need to plan, set policy, and benchmark against other organizations in such areas as employee development, recruitment, retention, employee enrichment, productivity, quality management, and customer service.

Back issues of Workforce Strategies are available separately, and include such titles as:

• Internet Recruiting: The Next Generation
• Succession Management: Identifying and Developing Leaders
• HR Outsourcing: Managing Costs & Maximizing Provider Relations
• HR’s Role in Maintaining Ethical Workplaces

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Whether you write or review the policies that will shape your organization's future or advise others, as an employment lawyer or general counsel of a company; whether you have a question regarding mandatory retirement of a senior executive; or whether you need to research, review, or evaluate the latest precedent-setting sexual harassment rulings, Human Resources Library featuring Attorney Resources provides you with the detailed information you need to make the right decisions and stay in compliance.

A new section on Attorney Resources, which brings valuable benefits at no additional charge, features Cases and Practice Tools. Cases is an extensive collection of full-text court and administrative decisions on HR issues. Practice Tools is a treasury ofchecklists and model letters, forms, and policies that offer invaluable help in handling litigation and practice management.

Address your straightforward HR questions with authoritative, regularly updated information in the rest of the acclaimed Library. It offers comprehensive, plain-English coverage of virtually every issue involving HR departments, such as personnel management, fair employment practices, compensation, wages and hours, and labor relations.

Comply with legal requirements with access to detailed summaries of state and federal laws, regulations, and agency guidelines. Stay ahead of the curve with hot-off-the-press newsletters, e-mail updates, and Websites. Resolve issues easily with Fast Answers, an interactive tool providing reliable responses to 2,400 questions on everyday HR topics. Create documents customized for your organization, modeled after those used in actual companies, including job descriptions, evaluations, and HR policies.

Other recent enhancements include Topic Navigator, for more refined searches, Favorite Documents, Recently Visited Topics, Quick Links, and Search History/Saved Search.Quick Search enables simultaneous comparative searching in up to 5 states. Interactive forms save time and are downloadable on both the Web and CD Library.

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This comprehensive, all-in-one reference tool for payroll professionals provides guidance and regular updates in every area of payroll administration and compliance. It includes hundreds of interactive forms, as well as links to related federal, state, and local sites. The Payroll Administration Guide Newsletter, part of your subscription, is also available separately. News is updated weekly, so you're informed of important regulatory developments as they happen!

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Review the hottest issues facing HR leaders today with this must-have 240-page report, spotlighting 10 crucial topics, along with a brief outlook on issues emerging in 2004. It draws from BNA's highest quality information services, such as Human Resources Report, to provide in-depth, weekly news and strategic planning advice for HR policymakers. Unlike annual “yearbooks,” the 2004 Briefing offers a competitive edge that only BNA’s objective, in-depth reporting and trend-spotting can provide.

Get the best coverage, analyses, strategic information, company examples, and practical insights for planning ahead. Chapters include: HR Strategy and Performance, Outsourcing, Litigation and Liability Prevention, Technology and the Workplace, Recruiting, Morale and Motivation, Leadership Development, Health Care Benefit Trends, HIPAA and Data Privacy, and War and the Workplace.

Plan your strategy for your upcoming collective bargaining talks with valuable insight from this exclusive 60-page report, which examines a cross-section of employers whose labor agreements are about to expire. Learn about the factors and trends likely to have an impact on contract negotiations this year by discovering management plans surrounding a variety of core provisions, such as wage adjustments, incentive pay, insurance and health benefits, pension and retirement plans, paid leave, and job security. Come to the table with a better understanding of the parties’ attitudes and expectations. The analyses also include breakouts by employment sector and by size of bargaining units covered by the labor agreements.

Get day-to-day help resolving issues concerning organizing, representing workers, and administering a union, plus timely updates and insights on significant workplace-related legal, legislative, and regulatory developments nationwide. Find out about NLRB and arbitration decisions, surveys and studies. Includes a biweekly newsletter for union leaders, plus a quarterly newsletter, On The Line: A Guide For Union Stewards.

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