Volume 2004, Issue 1
September 1, 2004

Working in IIa

New IIa Corporate Excellence Award Program

IIa has established a corporate excellence award program to recognize outstanding employee contributions to the company’s success that also support our corporate values. In the coming weeks, we will be providing information about the various aspects of this award program. In the meantime, to show our dedication to this new effort and to “kick off” the program, the corporate management team has selected six award winners for this year. In the future, criteria will be disseminated company wide and we will gather input from all personnel.

We are extremely pleased to announce the following recipients for this year who have performed activities that have had company wide impact:

• Heather Castleberry, Senior Accountant (corporate office), for outstanding contributions in building and developing IIa's infrastructure.
• Jeff Given, Senior Oracle Database Administrator/Software Developer (OSTI), for outstanding contributions to the Department of Energy's Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI).
• Mendy Wolfenbarger, Human Resources Specialist (corporate office), for outstanding contributions in building and developing IIa's infrastructure.
• (To be presented) An award for programming and development of a technology, procedure, or activity that can be used at our offsite locations across the country.
• (To be presented) An award for a person or persons in a small project who exhibited excellence and exemplary skills or achievements that led to customer recognition and promoted IIa as a company.
• (To be presented) An award for a person or persons in a large project who exhibited excellence and exemplary skills or achievements that led to customer recognition and promoted IIa as a company.

From Human Resources

At a time when many companies are taking steps to pass along ever-increasing insurance costs to their employees, IIa has been able to configure medical and dental benefits without increasing medical deductibles or raising maximum out-of-pocket medical limits.

IIa has selected United Healthcare to provide both medical and dental insurance coverage. Changes in the policies have resulted in an average 11% increase in medical premiums with very few changes in covered benefits. Changes in the dental plan resulted in a decrease in premiums and increase in benefits.

By the time you read this article, Open Enrollment will have come and gone and, hopefully, everyone’s questions have been answered. The next important project for HR is the standardization of IIa position descriptions.

As you can see, there is never a dull (or idle) moment in the Human Resources department.

If You Have Questions.....

With the expansion of corporate staff to handle the ongoing growth of the company, we have developed the following ready-reference list of who to contact for a variety of issues that might arise. A printable PDF file is also available.