Human Resource Management (HRM)

Human resource management in BC requires tools and advice to confront the challenges facing your business and staff. BCBusiness provides the help to ease your struggles with strategic HRM. Keep company with BCBusiness for our signature mix of reporting and commentary on human resources in BC.

'WelfAir' Won't Get Off the Ground

Why WelfAir won't fly.

Aveos Closes, Fires Thousands of Workers

Aveos leaves workers in lurch as it shutters operations.

The Price of a 24/7 Work Culture

What is our 24/7 work culture really costing us?

How to Manage Internal Communications

Opening the lines of communication in the workplace.

Creating a Technology Usage Policy

Drawing the line between business and personal use on office technology.

How to Work with Family

Earning money your brother, your mother, or your better half.

Creating a Working From Home Policy

Giving your staff flexibility, freedom, and trust.

How to Welcome New Employees

Tips for making your new recruits feel at home.

Avoiding Wrongful Termination Claims

How to deal with an employee undergoing a personal crisis.

How to Handle Office Romances

Is there such thing as an appropriate office romance?

Mergers & Acquisitions II: Maximizing Value

A career's worth of M&A lessons.

How to Manage Remote Employees

An increasingly digital world means looking beyond the traditional office setup.

A Conflict of Interest Policy is Good for Business

Tips for creating a good corporate conflict of interest policy.

How To Improve Your Corporate Culture

Is your corporate culture working for you or against you?

Joe Segal on Time Management

Time management can be easy. Keep it simple with these tips from Joe Segal.

Facebook and Personal Boundaries

Achieving employee productivity in the age of social networking.

Telecommuting and Working From Home

The Legalist: How to make your workplace work with remote employees.

Kiss Serial Entrepreneurship Goodbye

Get something deeper than the one-night stands of serial entrepreneurship.

Hire a Virtual Assistant

Free yourself some Christmas time by outsourcing your basic tasks.

Big Government Shift

Using new media not only to recruit new employees but engage existing ones.

Social Media: No “A” for Effort

There is little patience out there for branding attempts on social media channels that feature a kind of self-serving-slacker tonality

Calculated Losses: How to Effectively Downsize

For the CEO with everything. Software now tells you whom to fire, and when.

Is the B.C. Workplace Toxic to Women?

A US Study shows that the modern workplace is extremely divided by gender, and women seem to be reacting to it by abandoning it. Is the BC workplace also toxic to women?