The ASHHRA White Papers are organized by the following
HR Leader Model Competencies:

HR Delivery
Healthcare Business Knowledge
Personal Leadership
People Strategies
Community Citizenship

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HR Delivery  

• Mergers and Acquisitions: Key Considerations for Retirement Plan Conversion
  by Laura Gaynor, Vice President - Diversified
  
  
• 2011 HealthcareSource and ASHHRA Healthcare HR Initiatives Survey Results and Insight
  by HealthcareSource
  
  
• "Improving Human Productivity Through Software as a Service"
  by SaaShr.com
  
  
• “Is Your Organization Maximizing Its Employee Pharmacy Benefit Program?”
  by Mark A. Decker, MedImpact Healthcare Systems, Inc.
  
  
• "5 Talent Management Best Practices Every Healthcare Organization Should Consider Now"
  by HealthcareSource

• "The Joint Commission and Performance Management: 5 Critical HR Processes You Should Automate"
  by HealthcareSource

• "Retirement Plan Management: A Brave New World of Compliance"
  by William Small, Highland Capital Advisors and Ward Harris, McHenry Partners
  
  
• "Lifestyle Funds: Target Date and Risk-Based Investment Options for 401(k) and 403(b) Plans"
  by William Small, Highland Capital Advisors and Ward Harris, McHenry Partners

• "Revenue Sharing in the 401(k) Marketplace"
  by McHenry Consulting Group
  
  
• "The Innovative Workplace"
  by Jennifer Swanberg, Ph.D., Institute for Workplace Innovation, iwin
  
  
• "Employee Engagement and Diversity Satisfaction Linkage Identified"
  by HR Solutions
  
  
• "Balancing Patient and Employee Interests: Health Care Employer Responses to the H1N1 Pandemic"
  by Jones Day
  
  
• "Value-Based Competition in Healthcare: 10 Human Capital Imperatives to Improve Quality and Reduce Costs" 
  by Vangent
  
  
• "E-Verify - Understanding the New Ruling on Employment Eligibility Verification" 
  by iCIMS
  
  
• "Onboarding: Best Practices to Combat an Increasingly Expensive Turnover Rate"
  by iCIMS
  
  
• "Criminal Background Checks for Physicians and Allied Health Professionals: A Guide for Health care Organizations"   
  by PreCheck
  
  
• "The Benefit Clarification Conversation"
  by Pete Walsh
  
  
• "New Audit Requirement for ERISA 403(B) Plans"
  by Mike DiCenso, PRP, AIF, LLIF National Practice Leader, Gallagher Retirement Services
  
  
• "Fiduciary Obligations Under ERISA"
  by Mike DiCenso, PRP, AIF, LLIF, National Practice Leader, Gallagher Retirement Services
  
  
• "Looking for a New Position in a Difficult Economy"
  by Russ Jones, 1st Transitions
  
  
• "50 Great Ideas for Finding and Keeping Great People"
  by Joe Tye, Values Coach Inc.
  
  
• "From Accountability to Ownership: A Special Report from a Values Coach "
  by Joe Tye, Values Coach Inc.
  
  
• "The Business Case for Values Training"
  by Joe Tye, Values Coach Inc.
  
  
• "New Employee Acculturation: Measure, Engage, and Immerse"
  by Chuck Ros and Jay Torrence
  
  
• "The Web of Engagement©: A Strategy for Executive Retention in Turbulent Times"  
  by St. Aubin Haggerty and Associates, Inc.

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Healthcare Business Knowledge  

• "Health Benefits for Hospitals"
  by CIGNA
  
  
• "Collaborative Accountable Care: CIGNA's Approach to Accountable Care Organizations"
  by CIGNA
  
  
• "Voluntary Benefits: Making a Difference in the Healthcare Industry"
  by Elizabeth Halkos
  
  
• "Joint Commission Center for Transforming Healthcare Aims to Reduce the Risk of Wrong Site Surgery"
  by the Joint Commission Center for Transforming Healthcare
  
  
• "Healthcare Cost Containment: Reducing Costs through Best Practices in On Call and Call Back" 
  by Debbie Sanders
  
  
• "Healthcare Cost Containment: 5 Strategies for Managing Human Resources Pay Practices"
  by Barbara Blanchard and Debbie Sanders
  
  
• "Rx For the Health Care Workforce: Promising Practices and Their Implications for State and Federal Policy"
  by Randall Wilson
  
  
• "Separation Arrangements in Health care: A Summary of Survey Results"   
  by MSA HR Capital, an Integrated Healthcare Strategies Practice
  
  
• "Case Study: Reducing Labor Costs without Reducing FTE's"
  by Kathleen Brodbeck, RN MS NEA-BC
  
  
• "Tough Economic Times Call for Employee Surveys"
  by HR Solutions
  
  
• "All Aboard the Clue Train: How Performance Management Ensures that Every Employee is Advancing Your Company's Interests"
  by Taleo
  
  
• "Contingent Workforce Strategies: Relying on Technology helps Memorial Health System Improve"
  by Subhadra R. Sriram
  
  
• "Unsentimental Education: Today's emerging health care managers need practical, hands-on training more than ever before but few actually receive it"   
  by Betty J. Noyes
  
  
• "Employee Free Choice: The Employee's Right to a Secret Ballot Election Should be Protected "
  by Ms. Tresha Moreland, MS, SPHR
  
  
• "The ABC's of COBRA Compliance in 2009"
  by James P. Baker, Jones Day
  
  
• "More on ABC's of 2009 COBRA"
  by James P. Baker, Jones Day
  
  
• "Compliance Steps for the ADA Amendments Act of 2008"
  by Kathy Wynn, PHR
  
  
• "New Ways of Working in Hospitals"
  by American Hospital Association
  
  
• "Reducing Labor Inefficiencies"
  by HFMA & AONE
  
  
• "Report on the Economic Crisis: Impact on Hospitals"    
  by American Hospital Association
  
  
• "The Road to Economic Recovery: A Proposal to Support Health Care in America" 
  by American Hospital Association 
  
  
• "The Economics of Labor in Not-for-Profit Healthcare, 2008"
  by Workforce Prescriptions
  
  
• "Mandated Nurse Staffing Ratios in California: A Comparison of Staffing and Nursing-Sensitve Outcomes Pre- and Postregulation"
  by Burnes Bolten et al.
  
  
• "Employee and Nurse Check-Up Report 2008" 
  by Press Ganey
  
  
• "Exposure to Stress - Occupational Hazards in the Workplace"
  by CDC Workplace Safety and Health National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
  
  
• "Blowing Open the Bottleneck: Designing New Approaches to Increase Nurse Education Capacity" 
  by Jennifer Joynt and Bobbi Kimball

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Personal Leadership  

• "The Double-Platinum Rule"
  by Bryan K. Williams
  
  
• "Creating a Magnetic Culture^TM" 
  by Tina Carnak
  
  
• "Are you a Magnet for Talent?" 
  by Donna de St. Aubin
  
  
• "The Quality of Humor?"
  by Ronald P. Culberson, MSW, CSP
  
  
• "Global Leadership Forecast 2008/2009"   
  by Ann Howard, Ph.D. and Richard S. Wellins, Ph.D. of DDI
  
  
• "Presenting Yourself with Power"
  by Joe Tye, Values Coach Inc.
  
  
• "The Effective Interview: Eight Practices for Hiring the Best"   
  by St. Aubin Haggerty and Associates, Inc.

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People Strategies  

• "Addressing Disruptive Behaviors: Improving Patient Outcomes by Changing Organizational Culture"
  by Debra Walker, VP Health Care, DDI and Janice Burns, Senior Consultant, DDI
  
  
• “Workplace Wellness Programs Can Generate Savings”
  by Katherine Baicker, David Cutler, and Zirui Song
  
  
• "Organizational Archeology: A Research-Based Framework for Analyzing, Managing or Integrating Corporate Cultures"
  by Mark N. Clemente, Clemente Communications Group, LLC
  
  
• "Healthcare: The Highest Form of Hospitality"
  by Bryan K. Williams
  
  
• "Can a CEO Mentor a Nurse?" 
  by Carrie Vaughan HealthLeaders Magazine
  
  
• "Business Owners Take Employees Health to 'Heart' with On-Site Health Screenings"  
  by Care Dynamix
  
  
• "Are you a Magnet for Talent?" 
  by Donna de St. Aubin
  
  
• "Why the Lopsided Look at Employee Engagement?"
  by Kevin Sheridan, CEO, HR Solutions
  
  
• "Presenting Yourself with Power"
  by Joe Tye, Values Coach Inc.

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Community Citizenship  

• "Health Care Organizations are Failing Female Leaders"
  by DDI’s Global Leadership Forecast 2008|2009
  
  
• "Building and Keeping a Thriving Workforce: The Board’s Role"
  by Debra Stock and Jim Bentley
  
  
• "Will Your People Go the Extra Mile? A Hard Look at Human Capital" 
  by Brian Carlsen
  
  
• "ShiftWise Customer Case Study"
  by Memorial Health System

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Authors and Topics Wanted!
ASHHRA is assembling a comprehensive collection of White Papers for a member resource library.

If you are interested in creating a White Paper or have written one you would like to submit, please refer to our White Paper Guidelines. The guidelines detail the preferred format as well as information on how and where to send the papers for consideration.

Click here to read White Paper Guidelines

If you would like to read a White Paper on a particular topic(s), contact us at ASHHRA (see contact information below) and let us know what you need.  We will be compiling a list of ‘authors wanted’, and will continue to emphasize the need for White Papers on specific topics in future ASHHRA newsletters.

If you know of someone you think would be interested in writing a White Paper for ASHHRA, forward this information to them, or send their name and contact information to the ASHHRA contact listed below and we will contact them for you to invite them to submit a paper for consideration.

Possible ASHHRA White Paper topics could include:

• Benefits & Compensation
• Diversity
• Education, Training and Development
• Employee & Labor Relations
• Human Resource Information Systems (HRIS)
• Legal Issues
• Management Practices
• Rules and Regulations
• Safety/Security
• Workforce Development