A Conference Board of Canada report titled “Immigrants as Innovators: Boosting Canada’s Global Competitiveness,” studies the link between immigration and innovation.
There’s a bit of good news on the salary front. According to data compiled by the CRHA, compensation is projected to increase by 2.8% in 2011.
Monster has just obtained a third patent for 6Sense, its intelligent search technology. The company is taking advantage of the opportunity to launch it on the European market.
October is Healthy Workplace Month. For the occasion, the Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety (CCOHS) is organizing two free webinars on October 13 and 14.
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During the World Human Resources Congress in Montreal, Eric Noël, Senior Vice President at Oxford Analytica, unveiled the fruits of his research on the international market’s long-term trends. His talk, titled ”The world in 2030,” traced the major changes that will impact the world over the next 20 years.
More than 5,500 managers from 109 countries responded to the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) and World Federation of People Management Associations (WFPMA) survey. The results of this inquiry were presented exclusively at the 13th World Human Resources Congress, HR Without Limits.
In English-speaking North America, France and Quebec, corporate culture and geographic location have an effect on workplace recognition practices and the obstacles encountered—this observation is the result of a study conducted by specialist Christophe Laval and unveiled during the HR Without Limits conference.
Every year, the World Human Resources Congress is a big event for HR specialists all over the world. The 2010 edition has taken place in Montreal September 27 to 29. Florent Francoeur, President and CEO of the Ordre, which is organizing the event, presents the main trends.
Émilie Pelletier and Didier Dubois have written a guide to help human resources professionals understand and use new Web 2.0 tools.
Human resources should be more business-oriented and strategic! We’ve all heard that before. I would even say it is starting to sound worn out. I remember the end of the 1990s when I was doing a master’s degree, and the professors had drummed it into our heads that we had to think “business”—that we were not in sociology, teaching but in HR economics.