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A Message from Queen's IRC Director, Paul Juniper
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| Paul Juniper |
When I joined the IRC in 2006, I was appointed as Director of the Centre for a five-year term. I am delighted to report that I have been reappointed as IRC Director for an additional five years.
The IRC offers leading-edge training, and we are committed to meeting the professional development needs of practitioners in the HR, LR, and OD communities. Through our revised program evaluation, which has increased the feedback loops with participants and their organizations before, during, and after our programming, and the integration of learning objectives into our programming, to help clearly measure the learning that is taking place, we can be even more confident with the quality of our programming. Our research portfolio continues to grow, as we provide relevant articles authored by subject matter experts in our E-News and Research Briefs newsletters. Our recent HR survey, and our upcoming LR survey are further examples of the practitioner-focused work that we're doing. In addition, this year our research team will continue our practitioner interview series, capturing the perspectives of several senior-level professionals across Canada.
>> Read the full article here
Managing the Benefits and Challenges of the Multi-Generational Workforce
By Heather Swartz
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Heather Swartz |
The increased diversity in Ontario workplaces, the benefits and challenges that diversity presents to organizations, and initiatives to increase awareness and make our workplaces more inclusive have been an important focus of Canadian businesses and their human resource professionals over the past several decades.
Continuing to refine our definition of diversity in the workplace requires going beyond consideration of the more familiar differences such as race, ethnicity, gender, disability, or culture. It means considering all the features that make people dissimilar, and therefore unique. Defining differences in this broader context assists us in assessing the complex dynamics of today's workplace, the interplay of individual personalities, and the behaviours and expectations of co-workers and managers.
>> Read the full article here
Advancing HR at Encana: A Conversation with Dave Urquhart
By Alison Hill
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| Dave Urquhart |
Queen's IRC has now successfully delivered several iterations of our Advanced HR programming. During the program, participants are often engaged with the material and the discussions. But, to what extent is this engagement with learning maintained outside of the classroom? To answer this question, IRC Research Associate, Alison Hill, spoke with Dave Urquhart, Team Lead, HR Advisory, Staffing and Development at Encana. Dave has been a participant in the Advanced HR programming, and has sponsored several of his employees to attend as well.
This article provides one senior-level HR professional's perspective on the value of the IRC's Advanced HR programming. In particular, the article highlights Dave's views on the Queen's IRC advantage, the program content, and the ways in which he and his employees have shifted their thinking about HR as a result of the Advanced HR programming.
>> Read the full article here
HR Governance Symposium
Queen's IRC is partnering with Deloitte to offer a unique event that targets HR executives across Canada. On December 1, we will host the one-day HR Governance Symposium, in Kingston, ON.
>> Program information & download the brochure
>>Read more about the Queen's IRC-Deloitte partnership: Queen's IRC Collaborates with Deloitte
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