Employee engagement is a human resources metric that essentially tells an employer how happy its workers are.

By Lisa Gordon

Human resources is a lot like nursing, according to Antoinette Blunt. After a rewarding 25-year career as a registered nurse – much of it spent at the managerial level with the Victorian Order of Nurses (VON) in her hometown of Sault Ste. Marie, Ont.

By Sarah B. Hood

Can altruism coexist with capitalism? A growing body of thought holds that organizations with a strong ethical mandate are not just a nice idea; they tend to be more productive, better at attracting and retaining desirable employees and ultimately more profitable than those without.

Nonetheless, the value of ethical leadership can be a hard sell to senior executives negotiating a tough economy. And even when they do buy in, who defines the ethical code, especially when values clash? 

By Laura Croucher

Although it is an increasingly important term in modern business – from strategic planning, to project implementation, to board oversight – “risk” has not yet become common parlance for HR professionals.

By Marie-Pierre Lalande

Organizational change is one of the greatest challenges an HR director or team will face, and maintaining good employee morale while ensuring the retention of key team members in periods of uncertainty requires a proactive approach.

By Lisa Kopochinski

In the not-so-distant past, employers often expected their employees to leave their personal problems at the door.

By David Lahey, MBA

The lifecycle for human capital within an organization starts with talent acquisition, and only once this critical component is perfected can the following phases of talent development, growth strategy and change management successfully occur.

By Jason Geller

For a century, HR has included an analytical bent, but with the rise of big data, HR is rapidly evolving into a data-driven function that offers significant new opportunities to drive business results.

By Carole Trask 

Aligning corporate culture can be difficult enough with one office location, but how can a company make sure multiple offices feel connected? What strategies can HR departments implement to foster a sense of community and camaraderie between workers who live across the continent from one another?

By Alyson Nyiri, CHRP

If you’re envisioning crates of Red Bull as another means of motivating performance, then you might just be on to something. Author, journalist and director of research for the Flow Genome Project, Steven Kotler, has just released a new book on the science of what he calls ultimate human performance.

By Melissa Campeau

In 2008, Colleen Colwell discovered a camera hidden in the ceiling of her private office at Cornerstone Properties Inc. in London, Ont. Her boss claimed he installed it because he suspected maintenance staff of theft. Colwell sued the company – and won, but not on the grounds you might think.

By Sheryl L. Johnson

Protection against discrimination on the basis of family status is relatively new in Canada. Perhaps its relative “newness” contributes to making it one of the most difficult forms of workplace accommodation requests for employers to respond to.

By Phil Wilson, CHRP, SHRP

Like many of you, I spent much of July engrossed in the 2014 World Cup in Brazil. It was a fantastic few weeks of brilliant soccer and it was a pleasure to see the world’s best compete using styles of play and strategies unique to each nation.