Human Resources 101

Too many conferences and too little time? Or perhaps, too many registration fees and too little budget? Conference attendance is a must for professional development, but there are many choices available all offering some benefit. It can be difficutl to make a choice from so many options.
Workforce Management magazine “bring you reports from key workforce [...]

Ed Canning labour and employment lawyer with Ross & McBride LLP, in Hamilton, Ontario. He is also writes for the Hamilton Spectator, contributing a regular column to the Careers section.
These are some of his columns, currently archived at the newpaper’s website:

When performance complaints come in writing

(Jul 8, 2006) – So you just got a nasty warning [...]

Eluta is a search engine that specializes in just one thing: finding new job announcements at employers across Canada. Our goal is to create a searchable database of every new job opportunity in the nation.
As a vertical search engine, Eluta monitors new job announcements at tens of thousands of employers across Canada every day. Whenever [...]

Back in December I posted a list of internet resources, relevant to Human Resource Management, from Nottingham Business School. Somewhere along the line they rearranged their site (I can relate ) and those links went dead. Here is the new list:

General HR Links
Human Resource Publications
HRM Groups and Associations
HRM Mailing Lists
Organization and Management Theory
Recruitment Services (UK [...]

More and more organizations are concerned about falling behind the technology curve. They are using the Internet or Intranets to provide and communicate information to their employees and to create more efficient workplaces. The human resources department is often at the center of this effort.