Implementing Best Practices in Human Resources Management will help you to realize the full potential of your department's role in your organization and maximize the positive impact on your business. It ensures that employees and managers understand your organization's expectations, policies, and practices. It helps you become the internal organizational expert, drawing senior management to your proactive approach to HR strategies and confirming how HR is instrumental in helping the organization flourish. It also develops methods for implementing successful HR strategies that will impact the organization's culture, business objectives, and overall success.

Features include:

• Concise discussions of major HR terms and concepts
• Current trends and benefits
• Discussion on definitions
• Procedures for implementation
• Role of HR practitioners and any barriers or pitfalls they might face
• Sample policies
• "Best practice" information
• Over 400 pages of value

Topics covered:

• Alcohol and drug addiction
• Attendance management
• Auditing the HR function
• Benchmarking
• Ethics
• Career management
• Change management
• Coaching
• Competency
• Conflict management
• Employee involvement
• Employee opinion surveys
• Employee testing
• Employee turnover
• Employment contracts
• Employment cycle
• Flexible work practices
• HR Metrics
• Intellectual capital
• Learning organization
• Management development
• Mission statements
• Organizational design
• Performance management process
• Recruitment and selection
• Redundancy/downsizing
• Reward Management/compensation policies
• Stress management
• Terminations
• Virtual organization

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"Excellent information. Time well spend. Organizational readiness assessment information will be very helpful in determining start time for a mentorship program in our organization. When the time is right, this training has provided an excellent platform from which to set up a successful mentorship process."

Learn how to:  

• Dispel the myths of mentoring
• Determine drivers for mentoring, establish goals and roles, and develop a communication plan
• Recruit, select and match mentors and mentees
• Adopt best practices to achieve your mentoring program’s goals
• Develop strategies to address common mentoring challenges
• Assess your organization’s readiness to implement a mentoring program

Speaker

Jenny Lewis is the owner of LEWCO Consulting Inc., a company that focuses on building great businesses by building great people! She collaborates with organizations to create sustainable coaching and mentoring processes. Her innovative approach to designing, implementing and monitoring mentoring programs always start and are aligned with the client’s strategic goals. She has over 27 years business experience including 17 years experience in leadership training and development and performance consulting. Jenny also co-founded, designed and currently instructs the ‘Leadership Certificate program specializing in Leadership Coaching’ at Vancouver Community College.

Elaine Scollan is a senior associate with LEWCO and brings an extensive background in communications and mentoring. She has spent 27 years in Radio Broadcasting business focused primarily in news and information. Elaine has been the voice of hundreds of commercials and promos for a number of clients including non profit. Not only does Elaine have the ability to voice and deliver a variety of products bu

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What's an eBook?

An eBook is a digital version of a conventional printed book. Perfect for your PC desktop, you’ll be able to access answers to tough HR issues quickly and easily. Portable, bring them with you on a laptop wherever your business may take you.

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Summary of this eBook

Implementing Best Practices in Human Resources Management will help you to realize the full potential of your department's role in your organization and maximize the positive impact on your business. It ensures that employees and managers understand your organization's expectations, policies, and practices. It helps you become the internal organizational expert, drawing senior management to your proactive approach to HR strategies and confirming how HR is instrumental in helping the organization flourish. It also develops methods for implementing successful HR strategies that will impact the organization's culture, business objectives, and overall success.

What's New in the 2nd edition:

• Accommodation in Employment
• Discipline
• Diversity
• Due Diligence
• Orientation Programs
• Outsourcing
• Privacy
• Recognition Programs
• Retention Strategies
• Succession Planning
• Training

About the Author

Hugh Secord is a graduate of the University of Toronto (Honours B.A. in Sociology/Economics) and York University (M.B.A. - Finance). He also holds the CHRP designation and is a candidate to receive the Senior Human Resources Professional designation recently introduced in Canada.

Hugh has over 28 years of experience in Human Resource Management and Labour Relations in virtually every industrial sector. He held several CHRO positions before entering the consulting field in 2005. Hugh has acted as chief spokesman in over 130 collective agreements, and has been involved in resolving hundreds of grievances and other employment disputes. Hugh has proactively promoted alternative dispute resolution methods, and his innovative approaches led to one of the fir

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"Mike and Alex did a fantastic job of presenting the information, it was extremely informative, well planned and easy to navigate through! Very satisfied"

Bonus: A copy of the supporting paper and a complete Question and Answer (Q&A) document prepared by the speakers will be provided in this archived webinar.

Webinar information current as of November 10, 2009

A discussion of best practices in human resources based upon leading research and the client-focused consulting experience of our session leaders. The program will focus on three best practice areas:

• Employee Engagement
• Change Management
• The competencies HR professionals need to lead the evolution of HR in their organization

Key Learning Objectives:

• Identify and discuss 8 key drivers of employee engagement
• Develop employee engagement ideas, strategies and plans
• Develop and execute highly effective change management plans
• Explain the role of HR professionals in achieving organizational balance and optimization through implementation of best practice policies and programs
• Identify and discuss the competencies and skill sets required of HR professionals to develop aligned HR strategies and influence senior management

Speakers

Michael Bennett, CHRP
Michael has almost 20 years Human Resources experience as a Leader, Generalist and Specialist and is a co-founder and Managing Director of ENGAGE Human Resources Solutions Inc. and EHRSearch. His experience prior to forming ENGAGE and EHRSearch spanned Financial Services, Manufacturing, Industrial Sales, Distribution and Executive Search.

He has worked with all levels of management and employees during his professional career and has developed an enviable reputation as a Business Partner in identifying and implementing innovative and successful human resources strategies, solutions and programs.

At ENGAGE, Michael has led projects in organizational design, change management, compensation, recruitment, employee feedback, reward & recognition and policy &

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