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Employee Choice (employee + choice)

Distribution by Scientific Domains
Business, Economics, Finance and Accounting60%
Medical Sciences40%

Selected Abstracts

Employee choice of flexible spending account participation and health plan

HEALTH ECONOMICS, Issue 7 2008
Barton H. Hamilton
Abstract Despite the fact that flexible spending accounts (FSAs) are becoming an increasingly popular employer-provided health benefit, there has been very little empirical study of FSA use among employees at the individual level. This study contributes to the literature on FSAs using a unique data set that provides three years of employee-level-matched benefits data. Motivated by the theoretical model of FSA choice presented in Cardon and Showalter (J. Health Econ. 2001; 20(6):935,954), we examine the determinants of FSA participation and contribution levels using cross-sectional and random-effect two-part models. FSA participation and health plan choice are also modeled jointly in each year using conditional logit models. We find that, even after controlling for a number of other demographic characteristics, non-whites are less likely to participate in the FSA program, have lower contributions conditional on participation, and have a lower probability of switching to new lower cost share, higher premium plans when they were introduced. We also find evidence that choosing health plans with more expected out-of-pocket expenses is correlated with participation in the FSA program. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source]

Employees' choices in learning how to use information and communication technology systems at work: strategies and approaches

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT, Issue 1 2010
Eija Korpelainen
The purpose of this paper is to promote the understanding of how employees learn to use information and communication technology (ICT) systems at work. The elements of a learning activity in the context of ICT use are identified from the literature. In particular, approaches to learning, learning strategies and problem-solving strategies are reviewed. The empirical part of the study examines how employees choose to start learning how to use ICT systems, and how they choose to learn while solving problems related to system use. The data were collected using qualitative semi-structured interviews with 39 employees in three organizations. The interviewees usually preferred to learn how to use ICT quickly and without investing too much effort. The interviewees preferred informal learning and problem-solving strategies. The most commonly used strategies were to try things out alone or together with peers, or to ask for help from peers. The main conclusions of the study are that the users' learning intentions affect the kind of learning support they need and that ICT learning is best approached as a learning activity strongly rooted in collaboration and the social context. [source]

Union recognition in Britain's offshore oil and gas industry: implications of the Employment Relations Act 1999

INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS JOURNAL, Issue 4 2004
Charles Woolfson
ABSTRACT The Employment Relations Act 1999 (ERA) has provided trade unions in the UK with new opportunities for achieving recognition. After a long history of anti-unionism in the offshore oil and gas industry, employers have voluntarily ceded recognition to Trades Union Congress (TUC)-affiliated trade unions. The legitimacy of this recognition process has been contested by the non-TUC Offshore Industry Liaison Committee (OILC), an offshore workers' union, seeking to act as a recognised bargaining agent. The ERA may be promoting ,business friendly' agreements at the expense of claims to recognition of other bargaining agents and of democratic employee choice. [source]

Choices Within Collective Labour Agreements à la Carte in the Netherlands

BRITISH JOURNAL OF INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS, Issue 1 2006
Lei Delsen
In recent years European employers, unions and governments have developed initiatives that offer employees the right to exchange certain items within an agreed package of employment conditions. So far, the available evidence on the use of such ,cafeteria systems' is largely based on survey data rather than on actual choices. We analyse the actual choices made by the employees of Radboud University Nijmegen in the years 2002,2004. The results cast doubt on the efficiency and the effectiveness of employee choices within collective agreements, contradict the unions' push for working time reduction and question wage moderation and policies on work,life balance. [source]

Purchasing Cooperatives for Small Employers: Performance and Prospects

THE MILBANK QUARTERLY, Issue 4 2000
Elliot K. Wicks
Health insurance purchasing cooperatives were established in the early to mid-1990s for the purpose of making health insurance more affordable and accessible for small employers. Extensive interviews at six cooperatives reveal that while some cooperatives enrolled large numbers of small employers, most have won only small market shares and a number have struggled for survival, not always successfully. They have allowed small employers to offer individual employees choice of health plans, but none has been able to sustain lower prices than are available in the conventional market. Among the important impediments to their success are limited support from health plans and conflicts over the role of insurance agents. [source]