Compensation-benefits and Recognition

employee assistance programs

family-friendly benefits

flexible work schedules

flexible benefits programs

Provide counseling and advisory services:

-personal legal and financial services

-child and elder care referrals

-adoption assistance

-mental health counseling

-life event planning

-time off                            -fitness and medical facilities

-sick child benefits          -flexible work scheduling

-elder care                        -educational subsidies

-flextime: work schedule in which employees‘ workdays are built around a care of midday hours, and employees determine, within limits what other hours they will work

-compressed workweek schedules- schedule in which employee works fewer but longer days each week

-job sharing: allows two or more people to share a single full-time job

-work-sharing: temporary reduction in work hours by a group of employees during economic downturn as a way tp prevent layoffs

Cafeteria approach:

->Each employee is given a limited benefits fund budget to spend on preferred benefits

-> Types of plans

-flexible spending accounts

-core plus option plans

involves the achknowledgement and appreciation of the work employees are doing, and how they have accomplished it