Rewards and Recognition
The business rewards of employee incentive programs
By David Eason
The world of incentives is changing. In today’s work environment, it’s all about flexibility, choice and rewarding performance in a more personalized way.
Traditional company-selected merchandise and points-based catalogue programs[...]

Expat Assignment Effectiveness

Increase the success of your workers abroad by providing spouses employment networking assistance
By Nina D. Cole
Global HR managers know that when an employee is sent abroad on an expatriate assignment, spouses are critical to success. Problems with expatriate assignments are most often related to[...]

Sometimes patience is not a virtue, and high-market performing firms know it. They get their employees ready quickly, they avoid employee stagnation and they weed out those who don’t come up the productivity curve.

A new study by the Institute for Corporate Productivity (i4cp) on time to optimal productivity shows that over half (55[...]

Management consultant and professor Ram Charan reports 70 per cent of organizations have an insufficient pipeline of talent for critical jobs, yet they know that talent strategies are fundamental to business success. Senior HR strategist with Camden Consulting, Robert Hewes outlines the whys and hows of devoting resources to talent management planning[...]

Building Competencies for Today’s C-level Positions
by Kris Girrell
In executive circles often discussed are the issues of the C-suite, generally referring to those chief leadership positions whose titles begin with the letter C—CFO, CEO, COO and so on—with new middle letters being added each year. But, one should consider another[...]

Seven Things to Expect From Your Narcissistic Employee
by Bret Simmons
The narcissistic personality trait describes individuals that believe they are special, have a sense of entitlement, require excessive admiration, lack empathy, are interpersonally exploitive, and are arrogant and haughty. As defined by one of its most frequently used[...]

Appreciative Inquiry for Career Development
 By Dan Shepard
You have had a successful career—public recognition, financial security, an industry presence, the respect of your peers, but you are restless and have perhaps been quietly thinking about something new, something energizing…but can’t quite identify what that is.
For[...]

Securing Faxed Data
Sending and receiving documents via fax is still a critical method of data transmission for many sectors including health care and the law. Here’s how to ensure those faxes are kept private and confidential.

Don’t risk losing customers and market share because of poor service. Culture and training are critical to developing the right attitude and it starts with HR.

PIPEDA and the Use of GPS by Employers
By Jamie Knight and Brian MacDonald
With new technologies come new challenges to the privacy of individuals. This is especially true in the workplace, where new technologies have been introduced to increase safety, productivity and efficiency. Unfortunately, these workplace technological improvements[...]