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Human Resources Planning

Human Resources Planning
This site lists all the aspects of human resources planning that should be considered, mainly as it applies to fitting people to the requirements of the company. The performance of each task is not described but the outline serves as a useful guide to the process.

Options for Addressing HR Issues
This site has a comprehensive approach to human resources planning, including trends by industry and occupation, planning human resources needs and options for addressing human resources issues.

Human Resources Management
BDC provides a full package of how-to articles and human resources financing solutions, HR planning & consulting for Canadian businesses.

Employee Relations

Employee and Labour Relations
A variety of essays on collective bargaining, retaining and motivating employees, equal opportunity and developing employment policies.

Managing Employees for High Performance
This section of The Alliance of Sector Councils' site lists all the aspects of helping employees reach their potential, from how to run meetings to motivation and performance appraisals. Techniques for each step are not described, but the outline serves as a useful guide to how to create an organized approach to maximising employee performance.

Business Tips Dealing with People Problems
The Inter Canadian Business Services website lists five types of social interaction problems that are often seen in business organizations and provides advice on how to avoid these situations.

Motivation

Low-cost ways to motivate your employees
BDC’s article identifies that a business owner can build employee loyalty by creating more gratifying jobs, managing your star performers and reinforcing team spirit.

Motivating Workers
SaskNetWork website offers a dozen of tips on how to motivate workers.

Setting the Environment
Select the article "Attracting and Retaining Talent" on the Deloitte website, which provides useful ideas on designing jobs, creating an organizational culture and establishing compensation plans that motivate talented employees.

Hiring

Steps to Competitiveness - Human Resources
The diagnostic tool is the most useful part of this site. The questions indicate many good ideas and strategies as well as offering an opportunity to measure your firm against others. (Aimed at service companies)

Hiring
This section of The Alliance of Sector Councils' site lists all the aspects of hiring employees, from defining the job to making the job offer. The performance of each step is not described, but the outline serves as a useful guide to how to organize the hiring process.

The HR Guide for Canadian Employers
Go to the section on hiring of the CanadaOne website for several good articles on hiring strategies and avoiding costly mistakes.

Ins and outs of recruitment
Finding the right people is a make-or-break factor for success in business today. BDC’s articles identifies factors that can help you successfully recruit the right candidates.

Hiring
A review of several aspects of hiring, including various techniques and guidelines, sources of employees and job descriptions.

Termination and Lay-offs

Human Resources Development Canada: Termination of Employment
HRSD Canada talks about the different steps and provisions in the labor law regulating the termination of employment by business in Canada.

The Human Resources Guide for Canadian Employers
Scroll down to the section on termination of the CanadaOne website for a thorough review of the legal issues involved in terminating an employee.

Dismissal
The outline in this section of The Alliance of Sector Councils' site serves as a useful guide to how to approach the dismissal or lay off-of an employee.

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Compensation

Human Resources Planning - Compensation & Benefits
The diagnostic tool is the most useful part of this Strategis site. The questions indicate many good ideas and strategies as well as offering an opportunity to measure your firm against others. (Aimed at service companies)

Compensation/Benefits
Covers employer and government benefit plans and payroll information.

Communications

Human Resources Planning - Communicating with your Employees
The diagnostic tool is the most useful part of this site. The questions indicate many good ideas and strategies as well as offering an opportunity to measure your firm against others. (Aimed at service companies)

Effective Communication (In French only)
This Alliance of Sector Councils site lists all the aspects of communicating with employees. The performance of each technique is not described, but the outline serves as a useful guide to the requirements of effective communications.

Training & Development

Canadian Training Solutions
This Industry Canada Strategis site is an encyclopedia of information about training — its usefulness, e-training, learning technologies, case studies, a data base of more than 1,000 training suppliers and much more.

Steps to Competitiveness - Training & Development
The diagnostic tool is the most useful part of this site. The questions indicate many good ideas and strategies as well as offering an opportunity to measure your firm against others. (Aimed at service companies)

Skill Sets and Requirements
The section "Charting your HR Plan, what's on the horizon?", in the Business Development Bank of Canada's website presents basic information about planning employee requirements and developing employee skill sets; it is a useful overview.

Training and Development
This section of the Government of Canada Human Resources portal provides a comprehensive review of occupational trends, HR planning, and options for addressing current issues.

Training
This section of The Alliance of Sector Councils' site lists all the aspects of training employees, from orientation of new employees to ongoing training and professional development. The performance of each step is not described, but the outline serves as a useful guide to establishing and running a training program.

Health and Safety

In Search of an Alternative Solution
This article written by Luis Millan in the online Canadian Occupational Safety (COS) magazine talks about industrial health and safety issues and preventive measures which need to be addressed.

Occupation Health and Safety
A comprehensive review of aspects of health and safety, including harassment, safety and workplace wellness.

Literacy

Workplace Literacy
This Conference Board of Canada's site provides a realistic assessment of the need for literacy training in the workplace, including best practices developed by specific companies.

Best Practices
The Conference Board of Canada presents a series of case studies of firms that have adopted literacy programs to good effect.



Created: 2006-02-22
Updated: 2007-03-14
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