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The Importance of HR during the Holidays
The holiday season is a busy and often hectic time for many businesses. With increased workloads and a potential influx of customers, it is important for companies to have a strong human resources team in place to support their employees and ensure smooth operations. HR plays a crucial role in maintaining a positive work environment and in fostering employee satisfaction during the holiday...
When Human Resources Are The Problem
Human Resources fulfils an important and complex role balancing what’s best for the company with what is best for its employees. When employees experience interpersonal issues at work, HR is often considered as the go-to. But what do you do when HR ignores the problem, makes it worse, or is the problem? Former engineer at Uber, Susan J. Fowler, claimed her HR department was part of a significant...
RANT: Does the Law Society of Ontario Have ANY Teeth?
I started my career as a Law Clerk in December 1991. Bright-eyed and bushy tailed like all lawyers will tell you, the pursuit of justice, equity, fairness, and truth was my driving force. I even wrote my LSATS a couple of years later, having contemplated becoming that ‘keeper of the keys of justice’ (so-called). After working with and for lawyers for 2+ years at the time, I soon realized, it was...
Employee Retention and Engagement During The Great Resignation
Talent acquisition, employee retention and employee engagement are all hot-ticket items that all HR professionals currently face in today’s Covid great resignation world. Employees want to be included in discussions that affect them in a collaborative, respectful manner. While all companies, from global companies to small and medium-sized businesses, face individual ‘people’ challenges, there...
Why HR plays a critical role in ensuring a positive change management experience
The past two years have forced business leaders to embrace a ‘changing and ever-evolving business model’, to adapt to constantly changing circumstances. Many businesses have had to implement various large-scale change initiatives with little to no preparation out of sheer necessity to survive (downsizing, work from home, and other such flexible arrangements). HR professionals have played a key...
Organizational Designs: Intro to Holacracy
Hola-what? Holacracy! A relatively new and innovative approach to organizational structure, holacracy is defined as: “A method of decentralized management and organizational governance, which claims to distribute authority and decision-making through a holarchy of self-organizing teams rather than being vested in a management hierarchy. Individual employees can take on a role or multiple roles...