Last year, Lafarge North America, a construction materialscompany with 15,500 employees, launched a major restructuring. The company hadto face up to an inevitable increase in the number of relocations. âWe began athree-month crash course to centralize our relocation policy,â says BobShepard, director of compensation.
Medical Cost Containment: A Microeconomic Approach. Anywhere from 900,000 to 1.6 million Americans travel to other countries annually for cosmetic procedures, dental surgery, and infertility treatments excluded from their insurance policies or subject to high copayments.
Definition of cost consciousness. a company-wide attitude about the topics. of cost understanding, cost containment, cost avoidance, and cost reduction. A method of costing in which all fixed and variable production costs are charged to products or services using an allocation base.