HR Management Blog

It doesn’t take a genius to know there’s always room for improvement. In a labour market where employees have the choice to shop around for jobs , it is important to keep your best staff motivated and productive. Employee engagement is a big issue and there’s a lot which can […]

Where a lot of confusion occurs, is if an employer has the power to instruct their employees when they can take vacation. Simply, employers have the final say as to when an employee can go on their vacation. An employer has the right to manage its business as it deems […]

On July 1, 2014, a new regulation under the Occupational Health and Safety Act (OHSA) will come into effect which will require all Employers to provide Health & Safety Awareness training to their employee’s. The regulation outlines what needs to be covered in the training for both workers and supervisors. […]

Accessibility is a major issue for so many Ontarians; recent estimates are that 1 in 7 people are living with a disability. The government of Ontario is committed to making our province more accessible and have developed a 20 year plan with the goal of implementing the changes needed in […]

If you can manage to improve your average employee performance at your company, just think what you could accomplish. If each employee is working just a little bit smarter, a little more efficiently, and a little more passionately, the combined employee performance at your company could mean substantial overall progress. […]

Employee productivity is critical to any firm’s success, but an array of issues can keep workers from fully engaging in their tasks. Your job as a manager is to figure out how to best improve employee productivity while keeping morale high. Although employee productivity can be difficult to quantify in […]

It’s always difficult to terminate an employee, but you can make the task a little easier by knowing how to properly do it. According to the Ontario Ministry of Labour, there are very specific things you must do to properly terminate an employee, and although the Ministry of Labour can’t […]

There’s a reason why sports teams with the most talented performers don’t always win championships and, in fact, take home the trophy far less than one might expect judging by the numbers alone (are you paying attention, Blue Jays management?). This is because a team needs more than just A-Players […]

For as long as I can remember HR people have been trying (often failing) to gain credibility from CEOs. HR professionals can develop all HR strategies they want, implement processes and best practices, but unless those are quantifiable they’ll be hard pressed to win over the C-suite. Fortunately, there are […]