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Articles in Sept, 2003 issue of Workforce

• Circumstantial evidence is sufficient to establish sexual discrimination
• The big brawl over Bush administration plans for "competitive sourcing": the Office of Management and Budget claims up to 40 percent savings can result when government workers and private contractors bid to see who can do the public's work for l
  by Sheila Anne Feeney
• UltiPro Workforce Management: the most functionality for the lowest price
• The TSA's challenge
  by Carsten Henningsen
• Passing the bucks: exult began with one client, a lot of technology know-how, and promises of double-digit savings for companies that handed off their messy, expensive human resources operations. Now, with $500 million in annual billings, Exult is spawnin
  by Douglas P. Shuit
• HR and benefits management solutions
• Discovering the law of gravity
  by Alan L. Rupe
• Mind field: almost everyone agrees that depression is a disease that endangers millions of lives and livelihoods and costs businesses billions of dollars each year. But what should businesses do about it? That's where the arguments begin
  by Andy Meisler
• Adding efficiency to your screening equation
• A CEO for California, Inc.: finance likes the banker or the businessman. PR prefers some flash and glamour. No one asked human resources' advice
  by Carroll Lachnit
• Hot bodies wanted immediately: talent shortage imminent, says futurist: are cautious workplace execs headed for disaster?
  by Andy Meisler
• Adecco HR Services. HR best practices. Now made practical
• Sound the retreat: although the dollars that companies spend on retreats have fallen with the weakened economy, some organizations still sign up for off-site meetings that involve physical challenges. But there's considerable debate about whether you can
  by Douglas P. Shuit
• Erroneous background checking leads to liability
• Companies face steep costs and hard realities in the software wars: experts say companies could be out hundreds of millions of dollars if their ERP vendors are swallowed up in current or future rounds of software company consolidation
  by Samuel Greengard
• Real wages remain frozen: with labor markets still soft and benefit costs still rising, employers are pulling money out of their salary budgets
  by Fay Hansen
• More training, fewer scandals? The New York Times hopes so: paper will hire its first assistant managing editor for training
  by Joe Mullich
• Do it right or risk getting burned: companies planning to hike their benefit costs or reduce coverage must carefully craft their message to employees. Clarity and "overcommunication" are critical
  by Douglas P. Shuit
• Corrections
• Cracking the ex-files: conventional wisdom says that former employers won't give references. It's not so. The trick lies in whom you ask, and how you ask them
  by Joe Mullich
• Accredited HR degrees online in the specialization right for you
• A system that works
  by Dave Dahl
• Objective software selection & implementation with no vendor affiliations
• Deskside help for troubled workers: companies hire outsourced chaplains: "we don't go in flying a religious flag," says a ministry founder
  by Nancy Randle
• Sickened by the cost of absenteeism, companies look for solutions: internally devised cost-tracking systems, off-the-shelf software and outsourced absence-reporting services are all growing in popularity as employers try to figure out where an estimated 1
  by Sarah Fister Gale
• They came from the Internet: workforce-centric "blogs" proliferate; experts, kibitzers add value—and their own two cents' worth
  by Andy Meisler
• No agreement on fixes for the $300 billion pension funding shortfall: Congress ponders controversial changes to federal pension regulations, but critics say they might leave plans even more dangerously short of money
  by Patrick J. Kiger