This document discusses flexible benefits programs and human resource management. It covers several types of flexible work schedules including flextime, compressed workweek schedules, workplace flexibility, job sharing, and work sharing. The document contains learning outcomes, chapter sections, and keywords related to benefits, pensions, insurance, and other human resource terms. It provides an overview of the topics that will be covered in the material.

1. Welcome toHUMAN RESOURCES
MANAGEMENT
Benefit and Service
Dyah Pramanik, MM
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CHAPTER 7.2e
FLEXIBLE BENEFITS PROGRAMS:

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LEARNING OUTCOMES
1. Explain the main flexible benefit
programs.

4. Flexible Work Schedules
Flextime
Compressed workweek schedules
Workplace flexibility
Job sharing
Work sharing

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• K E Y T E R M S
• benefits
• supplemental pay benefits
• unemployment insurance
• sick leave
• severancepay
• supplemental unemployment benefits
• workers’ compensation
• health maintenanceorganization
(HMO)
• preferred provider organizations(PPOs)
• group life insurance
• Social Security
• pension plans
• defined benefit pension plan
• defined contribution pension plan
• portability
• 401(k) plan
• savingsand thrift plan
• deferred profit-sharing plan
• employee stock ownership plan (ESOP)
• cash balance plans
• Employee Retirement Income Security Act
(ERISA)
• Pension Benefits GuaranteeCorporation
(PBGC)
• early retirement window
• employee assistance program (EAP)
• family-friendly (or work–life) benefits
• flexible benefits plan/cafeteria benefits
plan
• flextime
• compressed workweek
• workplace flexibility
• job sharing
• work sharing

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