Executive's Guide to Controlling Health Care and Disability Costs Strategy-Based Solutions

A breakthrough book offering workable company strategies for controlling out-of-control health care, workers' compensation, and disability costs...; Recent polls have shown that CEOs today consider rising and uncontrollable health care costs to be the number one threat to keeping their organizations competitive. Even worse, many executives feel there is little they can do to regain control of exploding health and disability costs. This is the first book written specifically for executives, providing both a strategic blueprint and real-world examples for how employers can control and even reduce these spiraling costs. The Executive's Guide to Controlling Health Care and Disability Costs addresses the issues of health care, workers' compensation, and disability costs from a managerial and strategic perspective. You'll find innovative new ways to take action and examples from leading organizations that have achieved success. Applicable to corporations, nonprofit and government organizations, this book: Explains causes and solutions for health and disability costs in the language of management, accessible to people throughout the organization Shows how employers can both reduce costs and improve health, capitalizing on previously untapped leverage within their organization Integrates approaches from a variety of disciplines, including systems thinking, quality management, organizational culture, and financial management Offers practical techniques for increasing involvement and accountability among employees and line managers Documents the most successful approaches for dealing with the health issues of the '90s, including stress and mental health, wellness, substance abuse, and chronic disability Shows how to harvest the competitive advantage in productivity and quality that ensues from effective health and disability management Supplies models for overall strategy and systems, concrete steps for operational action, and a measurement framework for ensuring value and results The Executive's Guide to Controlling Health Care and Disability Costs is designed to develop win-win solutions. With this book, you'll learn how to promote employee health, increase levels of value from health expenditures, control costs, and ensure the long-term viability of your organization.Barge, Bruce N. is the author of 'Executive's Guide to Controlling Health Care and Disability Costs Strategy-Based Solutions' with ISBN 9780471584971 and ISBN 0471584975.