MHR 523 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Sexual Orientation, Reverse Discrimination, Performance Appraisal

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Human Resources
• Course: MHR 523
• Professor: Rupa Banerjee

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Lecture 4: contract (contingent) workers - temps work for a temporary employment agency risk free, increasingly used, but also no stability, consultants - freelancer (self-employed), professionals, outsourcing - contracting tasks to outside agencies or persons. Developing employees internally: replacement charts, succession and career planning, promotions - movement of an employee from one job to another that is higher in pay, responsibility, and/or organizational level. Creating flexible work arrangements: overtime, flexible hours, schedule, or location, flex hours, flex schedules, compressed workweeks, flex location/telecommuting, virtual organization. Creating flexible work arrangements: flexible retirements, retiree-return programs, float and transfer, movement of an employee from one job to another that is relatively equal in pay, responsibility, and organizational level. Access largely untapped pool of talent from people with disabilities. Employer has a huge amount of power, hire temporary foreign workers. Chapter 2: the changing legal emphasis: from compliance to valuing diversity. Explain how employment issues are governed in canada.