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How are the world’s most successful companies reducing cost, managing working capital, and creating competitive advantage during these challenging recessionary times? These questions are at the heart of the IOMA's Complete Guide to HR Cost Control Best Practices

Published since 2002, this Guide has become required reading for HR professionals who are proactively working to lower costs in their departments and, as a result, taking leadership positions in their organizations.

With over 400 pages, it’s a gold mine of tried-and-tested cost control strategies and techniques, featuring studies from IOMA, key consulting firms, and HR cost control experts.

Each of the Reference Guide's chapters focuses on cost control in a different HR function — including HR department management, benefits, compensation, 401k, training/development, outsourcing, downsizing, etc. — and features IOMA's original research on the latest strategies currently being used around the country.

The 2009 edition includes all-new case studies which detail how HR departments in different industries have implemented the latest cost control approaches in critical areas such as setting 2009 compensation levels and managing payroll service expenses.

HR Cost Control Best Practices Guide tells you in detail what hundreds of HR professionals are doing nationwide to successfully control costs, gives you cost control tips you can put into action immediately, and keeps you fully up-to-date on the latest new cost control initiatives and ideas being used in HR departments around the country.

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