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This report summarizes the results of the Conference Board’s May 2009 employer-sponsored benefit program survey. It provides sound data that enable Canadian employers to benchmark against organizations they compete with for talent.
Report
| 49 pages |
March 2010
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Karla Thorpe
The Conference Board of Canada
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Revised projections for U.S. Salary increase budgets in 2010 have dipped below 3 percent for the first time in more than two decades, barely staying ahead of The Conference Board’s forecasted inflation rate.
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| 12 pages |
February 2010
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Linda Barrington
, Judit Torok
The Conference Board, Inc.
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This report examines salary, total cash compensation, total compensation, and the mix of compensation elements for the CEO and the five highest-paid executives for specific revenue and industry groups.
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| 120 pages |
January 2010
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Kevin Hallock
, Judit Torok
The Conference Board, Inc.
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Stephen Quesnelle and Geoff Smith’s book In the Company of Sacred Cows traced the journey of Ottawa telecom producer Mitel Corporation through the boom and bust years—from rampant growth to staving off competitive and organizational challenges that threatened the company’s very survival.
In this e-Presentation, Geoff and Stephen describe their roles as change champions as they worked with employees to put sacred cows out to pasture and courageously return the company to health and profitability.
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December 2009
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The Conference Board of Canada
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Using an ecological perspective of change, David Hurst argues that the current economic crisis can be best understood from the perspective of natural processes. In this e-Presentation, David offers an opportunity for you to view your organization and its challenges from a different vantage point. The roles of crisis, trust, logic, and power in organizational change become explicit, and he describes how to “navigate” the future using “maps” and “compasses,” and how leaders must seize the opportunity that crisis provides to renew their organizations and re-energize and re-engage employees.
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December 2009
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The Conference Board of Canada
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The Conference Board of Canada’s annual Compensation Planning Outlook survey provides a respected and reliable forecast for the coming year. This e-Presentation includes discussion around the financial crisis and the mild recovery projected for 2010, as well as compensation planning for 2010. You will hear valuable information regarding the latest compensation and rewards trends, how inflation is impacting compensation levels, how to ensure your salaries remain competitive, the effect of economic challenges on labour markets, and compensations contribution to employee engagement.
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December 2009
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The Conference Board of Canada
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In an unstable and uncertain work environment, it’s important that employees understand and appreciate the value of your rewards program. In this e-Presentation, Gilbert Deschênes discusses Innovapost’s approach to compensation and benefits, the communication of employee choices, and the employer value proposition. He will share insights into the use of surveys to gauge employee needs, technology to facilitate employee choice, and tips on how to avoid common pitfalls you may encounter.
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December 2009
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The Conference Board of Canada
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Controversy over executive compensation may be common, but the nature and extent of the latest outcry suggests the public was unaware of the specifics of executive compensation. The excesses that have come to light have prompted outrage and call for change. In this e-Presentation, the panelists discuss these and other developments in executive compensation strategy, and their perspectives on the changes needed to ensure executive pay is justifiable and reflects contribution and performance.
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December 2009
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The Conference Board of Canada
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As organizations focus on reducing costs and streamlining operations, understanding HR trends and the design and implementation of new HR measures is important. One of the greatest challenges in this environment is to shift the emphasis away from cost to the value that HR creates. In this e-Presentation, Ruth Wright addresses this dilemma and answers some of the toughest questions with the help of the Conference Board’s latest HR Trends and Metrics study.
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December 2009
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The Conference Board of Canada
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2009 was a very untypical year. Contrary to past economic cycles, organizations are recognizing that while they need to take short-term action on managing costs, they also need to retain talent that will be required for recovery and growth. This e-Presentation discusses how organizations can take a dual short-term/medium-term approach to dealing with today’s challenges. Ideas on optimizing pay, clarifying performance incentives, and improving talent development and succession—while responding to short-term cost management efforts—are presented.
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December 2009
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The Conference Board of Canada
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As blogs, podcasts, and social networks like Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, and LinkedIn gain in popularity, employers are starting to take notice. For HR professionals, social media offer new ways to engage employees, albeit with some major new challenges. In this e-Presentation, James Norrie offers an entertaining and insightful guide to Web 2.0 that includes: the impact of social networking on how people communicate, how top companies are supporting business goals with social media, and effective internal social media strategy.
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December 2009
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The Conference Board of Canada
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While few sectors have been untouched by the current recession, resource industries have been hurt more than most. In this e-Presentation, you will find out how one organization’s talent conversation has changed in the last twelve months, and how this has affected its talent management practices and processes. Key to this transition is how HR—by knowing the long-term demographic trends—can make the case for talent management and for the strategic value of HR, regardless of the environment.
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December 2009
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The Conference Board of Canada
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During good times and bad, WestJet’s culture impacts the company’s market share, competitive advantage, and growth prospects. In a challenging global marketplace, WestJet’s people are as responsible for the company’s stellar growth as its high-value, low-cost market positioning is. In this e-Presentation ,you will hear Ferio Pugliese discuss how WestJet strives to maintain its award-winning culture, including: strategies to embed flexibility and speed into corporate culture, how to manage cost-efficiency pressures on employees, the role of corporate culture in building agility, and strategies for translating corporate vision into reality.
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December 2009
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The Conference Board of Canada
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Results of this year’s outlook survey suggest that after a year of economic turbulence, pay planners are cautiously optimistic as they look ahead to 2010.
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November 2009
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Allison Cowan
The Conference Board of Canada
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Priorities have changed over the last 12 months, as organizations re-examine all operations with an eye to increasing efficiency. Now more than ever, concise, current, independent, and practical compensation information is critical to developing an effective HR strategy. This Conference e-Proceedings presents the Conference Board’s annual economic forecast, the annual compensation survey and HR trends perspective, and innovative HR strategies to deal with the times, maintain competitiveness, and plan for future success.
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November 2009
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The Conference Board of Canada
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Interested in the fees and retainers that Canadian publicly traded companies pay directors for board and committee service? This report reveals the latest information from a Conference Board biennial survey.
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November 2009
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Karla Thorpe
The Conference Board of Canada
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Overtime practices are coming under scrutiny due to external factors as well as employee and management concerns. Many employers are reviewing their policies and taking steps to mitigate the legal risks of overtime worked without appropriate compensation.
Recorded Webinar
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September 2009
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Karla Thorpe
The Conference Board of Canada
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Salary increase budgets were hit hard in 2009. The good news for 2010 — budgets are projected to be higher. The bad news — the forecasted increase, at 3 percent, is the lowest in 25 years. Read the
Winter Update.
Report
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September 2009
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Linda Barrington
, Judit Torok
The Conference Board, Inc.
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Canadian employers are reviewing their human resources policies and taking steps to mitigate the legal risks of overtime worked without appropriate compensation. This briefing surveys the overtime practices of 130 organizations.
Briefing
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August 2009
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Karla Thorpe
The Conference Board of Canada
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This webcast will help participants to learn from The Conference Board’s Mature Workforce Initiative how to assess, motivate, and monitor the productivity of their older workers.
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July 2009
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Conference Board Inc., New York
The Conference Board, Inc.
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