MHR 523 Lecture Notes - Job Analysis, Canadian Human Rights Act, Occupational Information Network
27 Feb 2013
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Canadian corporations face a number of challenges today. Canadian business faces three critical economic challenges: surviving a recessionary cycle, facing the global trade challenge, meeting of productivity improvement, surviving a recessionary cycle. Hrm face special challenges during a recessionary period. Carry out the unpleasant task of planning, communicating and implementing employee layoff. Job insecurity associated with recession causes erosion of employee trust in management: facing the global challenge. Canadian organizations are opening new plants and expanding activities in foreign countries that are closer to their customers or where labour is cheaper. Canada"s highly skilled, multicultural workface has given the country a competitive advantages in deal with other countries and cultures, anticipating their needs and concerns, and proactively responding to them. Emergence of several low cost trading nations such as thailand, china, has caused canada to lose market shares in traditional strongholds such as pulp and paper, cotton, steel. Us has been improving its productivity at a fast pace.
