News
Determining Job Worth in a Post-Pandemic World
How valuable is emotional intelligence these days? It’s a question that many are asking themselves as the coronavirus pandemic settles into its eighth week of escalation in North America. The 24-hour news cycle has fed us a multitude of approaches world leaders and...
Manage HR Processes More Efficiently
One of the primary roles of an HR executive is to ensure talent sustainability across the organization. This is usually accomplished through a number of HR processes such as job design, compensation, recruiting, posting and internal selection, promotions, performance...
Market Pricing Jobs
Market Pricing is the process used to determine the external value of a job. The approach typically uses brief job descriptions and/or general knowledge of the work to benchmark jobs found in the organization's competitive marketplace. Information regarding the...
Pay Equity – Expense or Opportunity?
Pay Equity is becoming federal law in Canada… In response to the report of the House of Commons committee on pay equity, the Government of Canada announced October 29th, 2018 its intention to bring in legislation to better ensure all employees in federally regulated...
Three Managers and a Work Plan An Organizational Myth
Once upon a time, there was an organization. It was a big organization. Many people worked there. The executives of this organization were smart. They read books, attended conferences, and listened closely to wise consultants. They had their own good ideas, too....
Employee Performance Reviews – Is it met with a groan?
When people think of employee performance reviews, the thought is often met with a groan. Organizations around the world conduct generic, annual performance reviews. They ask the same performance questions about each employee in an attempt to measure quality of work,...
Moneyball for Human Resource Management
In 2001, general manager Billy Beane of Major League Baseball’s Oakland Athletic’s (played by Brad Pitt in the 2011 film ‘Moneyball’) proved that measuring the right things would allow mathematics to analyze and cut straight through to where value could be found, with...
Value of Linking Job Evaluation to Performance
Job evaluation, according to Wikipedia, is a systemic way to determine the value (or worth) of one job relative to another in the same organization. The process requires jobs be compared on skill, effort, responsibility and working condition factors. Then, an...
The Synergy of Effective Communication and Technology
Communication is one of the key things we all do. What we ‘say’, through our words and actions, gives us the opportunity to connect, support, learn and develop meaningful relationships.
At enCompassing Visions, we felt we had some improvements to make with…..
