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Ua3/9 Fall 2009 Midpoint Report, Wku President's Office, Gary Ransdell
Ua3/9 Fall 2009 Midpoint Report, Wku President's Office, Gary Ransdell
WKU Archives Records
Memo from President Gary Ransdell to all faculty and staff regarding events and announcements for Fall semester 2009.
Difficult Choices In Total Compensation: Balancing Health Care Costs And Wage Increases, Jennifer Dose
Difficult Choices In Total Compensation: Balancing Health Care Costs And Wage Increases, Jennifer Dose
Business Educator Scholarship
This article describes an experiential exercise suitable for undergraduate or master’s-level students. The goals of the exercise are for students to correctly apply health insurance concepts such as premium, deductible, co-pay, and coinsurance; to understand and explain the dilemma facing organizations in an environment of increasing health care costs and limited compensation budgets; to discern and apply the concerns of employees with varying demographic profiles to health care cost sharing; and to develop competency in calculating health care costs at the organizational level. Students receive a scenario in which they act as an employee representative and are asked to provide …