Human Resources
Canadian Apartment Magazine
Social media guidelines for employers
It is the responsibility of employers to ensure the rules governing the use of social media are clear and widely understood. This means educating staff on a ‘responsible use of technology’ policy or code of conduct and ...
Canadian Facility Management & Design
Change in the workplace is a process not an event
When launching a significant change initiative, one of the biggest mistakes management makes is to view it as an event that happens at a single point in time. Accepting and then embracing change is a process, not an event.
Canadian Apartment Magazine
Don’t get too personal during hiring process
Human rights legislation in Ontario place practical constraints on what information an employer may collect during the hiring process.
Construction Business
Help wanted
The issue of a pending skilled workers’ shortage is probably the single biggest challenge facing the B.C. construction industry.
Canadian Apartment Magazine
Taking the mystery out of mystery shopping
Long been used by market research companies and consumer watchdogs to test how well retail stores serve customers, mystery shopping is a good tool to be used by the apartment industry.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
Employee engagement that actually engages
participatory and collaborative methods bring people together and involve dynamic, multidirectional communication (leadership to employees, employees to leadership and employee to employee).
Canadian Property Management
Employers enlisted to prompt workers’ savings
Quebec’s voluntary retirement savings plans (VRSPs) to capture workers not formally enrolled in company pension or group retirement savings plans.
CondoBusiness
Workplace pet peeves
Most bosses deal with employee-driven pet peeves like bad manners or using company time for personal phone calls on a daily basis. The problem is that while most of these pet peeves start off as small frustrations, they can turn into bigger ...



