Chapter 13...

- - Concept and Brief Discussion: Providing employee benefits
This chapter is all about different benefits that are available to companies. It discusses benefits by law, paid leave, retirement plans, insurance plans, and other employee wants. It showed the average number of available paid leave days in the U.S. and how many people actually take off. It also explained how to encourage different behavior in the company through incentives like health care plans and promoting healthy employees.
- - Emotional Hook:
My emotional connection to this chapter was when it discussed the number of paid days vacation offered compared to how many people actually take. I thought this was interesting because I know so many people in the U.S. today are work-aholics and even though they could take those days off they choose not to because they do not want to miss work. It is kind of sad to think of the time they are giving up for work instead of spending time with their families.
- - Key points to elicit in discussion:
1. HR needs to know laws regarding employee benefits 2. See which incentives work best for employees are your particular company 3. Make sure incentives are actually promoting successful work habits
- - Facilitative Questions:
How do you know if you have the right incentives to promote the attitude and actions you want? What if you have been offering an incentive but find it is not promoting the right attitude, how do you go about getting rid of the incentive without upsetting people?