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Wayne Ormond says that the challenge, put simply, is how best to bring "new managers" up to
speed as quickly and efficiently as possible while not overwhelming them.
Julie Freeman explores why
existing formal and informal approaches to employee performance management and
appraisal tend to work well enough in theory, but fail to meet
expectations in practice.
The notion of a job for life
was a creation of the last century which never really made it in to this one says John Scott.
Are web-based recruitment methods so wonderful? UK-based John Scott tries
to find a job in the USA.
John W. David comments on those Press
Release Headlines... "Such-and-Such announces 12,000 more jobs to be Cut".
Teresa King says that this article is unfairly geared more toward women then
men.. though there will be men who need to know how to
manage their time and the problems when the spouse feels
neglected. Because women and men are not the same and they
do have different needs.
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HR Articles
Performance
November 26 2003 - Recent Mercer research indicates that variable pay can
improve both productivity and employee satisfaction.
Job Market
December 3 2003 - A recent survey finds that honesty can be a job
seeker's most valuable characteristic.
October 16 2003 - A new program is being launched to increase
awareness among employers of the benefits of hiring, training and retaining internationally trained workers
living in Canada.
September 24 2003 - It's a standard interview question, but the answers employers receive can be far from ordinary.
July 8 2003 - More work needs to be done to attract high-skilled immigrants
to Toronto if the city's potential for growth in producing knowledge-based goods and services
is to be realized.
April 4 2003 - March saw the creation of another 17,100 new jobs in Ontario, which
means that 71,000 new jobs were created in the first quarter of 2003 and a total of
1,105,000 net new jobs since 1995.
January 6 2003 - Tax incentives aimed at creating jobs
in Ontario's small business and mining sectors took effect on January 1, 2003.
SMEs
October 10 2003 - Small businesses have fared better than large companies in recent years.
September 3 2003 - A Xerox Canada/Environics Research Group Survey of 250 Canadian small
business owners and managers found that workers in Canada's small and medium sized
companies are clocking in earlier and punching out later - but it is not necessarily
time well spent.
General HR
June 5 2003 -
Saskatchewan's provincial government is providing an additional 70 places
in Saskatoon this year as part of the province's ChildCare Saskatchewan initiative.
May 9 2003 - The British Columbia Teachers' Federation has called on
the B.C. provincial government to reverse its plan to change the child labour laws so
that employers can hire children as young as 12 with nothing more than a note from
their parents.
February 1 2003 - New national standards for the designation
that distinguishes Canada's human resources practitioners, the CHRP (Certified Human Resources
Professional) have been launched.
Recruitment
April 8 2003 - A survey of more than 363,000 unemployed workers
worldwide by career transition firm DBM reveals that Canadian Internet surfers were four times more
successful in finding new jobs than the global average in 2002.
Commitment
February 18 2003 - A recent survey by Towers Perrin shows that employees
in Canada and the US have strong emotions about their working lives but these feelings are mainly
negative at the moment
January 5 2003 - Why do some people take credit for
everything-dooming themselves to a lonely 'crash-and-burn,' while others go to extreme
measures to hide from the spotlight? Why do 'team efforts' often end in acrimony? Dean
Roger Martin of the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management explains it's
the fear of failure that infects companies and people with the bug he calls the
Responsibility Virus.
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Employee Relations
October 10 2003 - Steelworkers want incoming Ontario Liberal government to increase the minimum wage and reverse the
'draconian' Harris/Eves labour law rollbacks.
July 1 2003 - But an MLA committee
has been asked to investigate "salting" and "merfing" practices in the construction industry.
July 1 2003 - Air Canada has announced that it
will achieve permanent labour cost reductions of $1.1 billion following
ratification of all the airline's labour agreements in Canada.
Recruitment
July 16 2003 - Efficiently prescreen thousands of job candidates can
significantly reducing the amount of time hiring managers need to spend reviewing resumes
and identifying the most suitable candidates.
Training and Development
July 4 2003 - The former Ontario Society for Training &
Development (OSTD) has been expanded to cover all of Canada as the Canadian
Society for Training and Development (CSTD).
Health and Safety
May 26 2003 - A workplace injury rate of 3.0 serious injuries per
100 full time jobs was recorded for 2002 - the lowest since the current system of
measurement in Alberta was established in 1991.
When Generations Collide
by Lynne C. Lancaster and David Stillman
If your workplace sometimes feels like a battlefield and your colleagues sometimes seem like aliens, you are not
alone. Today there are four distinct generations of employees glaring at one another from
across the conference table, and the potential for conflict and confusion has never been
greater.In this insightful, captivating book, generational experts Lynne C. Lancaster and
David Stillman shed much-needed light on how to bridge generational gaps at work by
understanding the differences that drive generations apart - Traditionalist, Baby Boomers,
Generation Xers and Millennials.
Read more about these at and an excerpt from
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