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SwitchPoints: Culture Change on the Fast Track to Business Success

Judy Johnson, Les Dakens, Peter Edwards, Ned Morse

Publisher: Wiley  (Sep 16 2008)
ISBN: 978-0-470-28383-7
Year: 2008
Price: $35
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"SwitchPoints is great reading for anyone in a leadership role. The lessons on the importance of culture are clear and transferable. I highly recommend this book"
- William R. Johnson, Chairman, President, and CEO of H.J. Heinz Company  (More)

Made in Canada Leadership: Wisdom from the Nation´s Best and Brightest on Leadership Practice and Development

Amal Henein and Françoise Morissette

Publisher: Jossey-Bass
ISBN: 978-0-470-83943-0
Year: 2007
Price: $39.99
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Made in Canada Leadership is a compelling guide for anyone interested in their own growth as a leader - or in developing leaders within their organizations.  (More)

The Leadership Gap: Building Leadership Capacity for Competitive Advantage

Dr. David Weiss and Dr. Vince Molinaro


Publisher: Publishers: John Wiley & Sons Canada Ltd.
ISBN: 0-470-83568-0
Year: 2005
Price: $49.99
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HRM Project Series - The purpose of this study is to evaluate the role and significance of unions and collective bargaining in facilitating workplace change  (More)

The Conflict Resolution Toolbox: Models and Maps for Analyzing and Resolving Conflict

Gary T. Furlong

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Canada, Ltd.
ISBN: 0-470-83517-6
Year: 2005
Price: $49.99
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The Conflict Resolution Toolbox equips any practitioner with the clear, practical insights they need to find conflict's roots and resolve disputes quickly.  (More)

Building Smart Teams: A Roadmap to High Performance

Carol A. Beatty and Brenda A. Barker Scott

Publisher: Sage Publications
ISBN: 0-7619-2956-8
Year: 2004
Price: $50.00
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Building Smart Teams is an essential guide to creating high-performance teams fast. The approach is to help team members build skills and implement processes to increase success.  (More)

In Search of the Eighteenth Camel: Discovering a Mutual Gains Oasis for Unions and Management

David S. Weiss

Publisher: IRC Press
ISBN: 0-88886-546-5
Year: 2003
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In Search of the Eighteenth Camel is a clear and practical guide to mutual gains principles. (More)

Employee Ownership: The New Source of Competitive Advantage

Carol Beatty & Harvey Schachter

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0-471-64622-9
Year: 2002
Price: $43.95 NOW $35.00
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Employee Ownership is an insightful, readable, and thoughtful examination of a variety of employee ownership companies; an essential resource for anyone interested in looking at organizational change and innovation.  (More)

State of the Art and Practice in Dispute Resolution: A Symposium in Honour of Bryan M. Downie

Edited by Mary Lou Coates

Publisher: IRC Press
ISBN: 0-88886-544-9
Year: 2002
Price: $35.00 NOW $20.00
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These published proceedings of the symposium discuss strategies and approaches for improving relationships, solving problems, and resolving disputes more effectively.  (More)

Etate actuel de l'art de la resolution de conflits: Un symposium rendant hommage a Bryan M. Downie

Mary Lou Coates, Editrice

Publisher: IRC Press
ISBN: 0-88886-545-7
Year: 2002
Price: $35.00 NOW $20.00
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Le present recueil de comptes rendus propose des strategies et des demarches aptes a ameliorer les relations, a resoudre les problemes et a regler les conflits d'une facon plus efficace.  (More)

Strikes in Essential Services

Bernard Adell, Michel Grant and Allen Ponak

Publisher: IRC Press
ISBN: 0-88886-543-0
Year: 2001
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Strikes in Essential Services is a comprehensive study of the law and practice on the regulation of strikes and lockouts in essential services in Canada  (More)

Contract & Commitment: Employment Relations in the New Economy

Edited by Anil Verma and Richard P. Chaykowski

Publisher: IRC Press
ISBN: 0-88886-520-1
Year: 1999
Price: $49.95 NOW $18.00
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A comprehensive analysis of modern industrial relations in key Canadian industries during the recent period of unprecedented change. (More)

Labour and Employment Law: Cases, Materials and Commentary - Sixth Edition 1998

The Labour Law Casebook Group

Publisher: IRC Press
ISBN: 0-88886-474-4
Year: 1998
Price: $85.00 NOW $40.00
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The Labour Law Casebook Group is devoted not only to the project of a collective casebook, but to a larger scholarly and social vision of labour law.  (More)

Transition and Structural Change in the North American Labour Market

Edited by Michael G. Abbott, Charles M. Beach and Richard P. Chaykowski

Publisher: IRC Press and John Deutsch Institute for the Study
ISBN: 0-88886-443-4
Year: 1997
Price: $50.00 NOW $18.00
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This publication represents the culmination of a broader project intended to bring together researchers from Canada and the United States to present and discuss state-of-the-art research concerning various aspects of labour markets and to publish this research for dissemination to a wider audience.  (More)

Public Sector Collective Bargaining in Canada: Beginning of the End or End of the Beginning?

Edited by Gene Swimmer and Mark Thompson

Publisher: IRC Press
ISBN: 0-88886-422-1
Year: 1995
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Canada's progressive system of public sector collective bargaining has never been under such attack from so many quarters, and it may be in danger of being permanently dismantled. This epitomizes the difference between private and public sector labour relations. (More)

Job Control Unionism vs. the New HRM Model

John O'Grady

Publisher: IRC Press
ISBN: 0-88886-411-6
Year: 1995
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HRM Project Series - The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between the industrial relations system and the ability of companies in manufacturing and other 'blue-collar' industries to alter the way in which they organize work.  (More)

Research in Canadian Workers' Compensation

Edited by Terry Thomason and Richard P. Chaykowski

Publisher: IRC Press
ISBN: 0-88886-364-0
Year: 1995
Price: $40.00 NOW $10.00
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This publication represents a comprehensive effort to bring together international researchers for the purpose of analyzing a broad range of economic aspects of Canadian workers' compensation programs.  (More)

Unions and Workplace Change in Canada

By: Pradeep Kumar

Publisher: IRC Press
ISBN: 0-88886-410-8
Year: 1995
Price: $25.00 NOW $8.00
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HRM Project Series - The purpose of this study is to evaluate the role and significance of unions and collective bargaining in facilitating workplace change. (More)

A Review of Canadian and American Training Practices

Richard Chaykowski and Brian Lewis

Publisher: IRC Press
ISBN: 0-88886-409-4
Year: 1994
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HRM Project Series - The general scope of this review includes an examination of job-skills training practices relevant to non-managerial workers in Canada and the United States.  (More)

Understanding Change in Canadian Industrial Relations: Firm-Level Choices and Responses

Edited by Anil Verma and Richard P. Chaykowski

Publisher: IRC Press
ISBN: 0-88886-392-6
Year: 1994
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HRM Project Series - This paper establishes a framework for understanding the process of change and adjustment in human resources management and industrial relations in Canada. (More)

Human Resource Management Practices and Organizational Performance: Evidence from Atlantic Canada

by Terry H. Wagar

Publisher: IRC Press
ISBN: 0-88886-405-1
Year: 1994
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HRM Project Series – This study examines the relationship between progressive human resource management practices and employee involvement programs, and organizational performance. (More)

Traditional and New Approaches to Human Resource Management

Bryan Downie and Mary Lou Coates

Publisher: IRC Press
ISBN: 0-88886-404-3
Year: 1994
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HRM Project Series - The need to be more responsive to the changing competitive and economic environment has focused attention on business strategies based on innovation, quality, and cost-effectiveness. Improved productivity, flexibility, and customer service have become strategic imperatives for organizations in the 1990s. This has implications for the management of human resources. (More)

The Effects of Human Resource Management Practices on Firm Performance: A Review of the Literature

Caroline L. Weber

Publisher: IRC Press
ISBN: 0-88886-403-5
Year: 1994
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HRM Project Series - The research evidence in this paper examines whether or not different human resource practices have an impact on individual firm performance, or the economic health of industries. (More)

The Canadian Workplace in Transition

Gordon Betcherman, Kathryn McMullen, Norm Leckie and Gordon Betcherman

Publisher: IRC Press
ISBN: 0-88886-406-X
Year: 1994
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HRM Project Series - The Canadian Workplace in Transition delivers a devastating blow to business-as-usual in human resource management - based on cold, hard facts carefully analyzed and cogently presented. (More)

Human Resource Management Practices: Patterns and Determinants

Norm Leckie

Publisher: IRC Press
ISBN: 0-88886-412-4
Year: 1994
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HRM Project Series - Using a comprehensive body of employer-level data, this paper seeks to fill the holes in our knowledge by determining the extent to which Canadian employers adopt systems of HRM practices and by measuring how the choice of HRM system is affected by business strategy and external pressures.  (More)

Compensation Practices and Outcomes in Canada and the United States

Richard Chaykowski and Brian Lewis

Publisher: IRC Press
ISBN: 0-88886-423-X
Year: 1994
Price: $43.95 NOW $35.00
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HRM Project Series - This review of compensation practices and developments focuses on studies that include non-managerial workers in both unionized and non-unionized establishments in Canada and the United States.  (More)

Strikes, Disputes & Policymaking: Resolving Impasses in Ontario Education

Bryan M. Downie

Publisher: IRC Press
ISBN: 0-88886-307-1
Year: 1992
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This book provides a comprehensive examination of teacher/school board collective bargaining in Ontario education  (More)