Ian Hopfe

In this article, I will explain why fixing a toxic workplace environment can help your business or organization to stop surviving and begin thriving.

All organizations can solve pay equity issues by creating or updating pay grids to factor for women-dominated roles, re-examining experience to factor for maternity leave, creating hiring and promotion tiebreaker policies, and committing to hiring 50% of women in all job types.

Bereavement leave should be flexible and immediate, like sick days, because of things like delayed emotions, the effect of keeping busy, triggering events, and compound trauma. Below, I examine my experience of my recent grief.

Managers must determine whether a situation is a work/life balance challenge, performance issue, or disciplinary issue by investigating, reviewing, and defining the problem. Only then can the employee be given support or a warning.

Addressing mental health in the workplace can be done by offering competitive wages, implementing a proper employee assistance program (EAP), providing regular time off, offering internal training on diversity, equality, and inclusion (EDI), and providing effective performance reviews. As an owner or manager, your role is not to treat mental health but to allow employees to learn options and remove significant stressors.

The best way owners and managers can encourage employees at work or in the corporate world is to have an epic pizza party. Still, important planning must be done first. A pizza party alone and out of the blue is not effective. A well-planned and timed pizza party can be an amazing event that is the culmination of much hard work. Read this article to become the pizza party hero!

Owners and managers must support high-potential employees by paying well, having proper training, and having a career plan. High-potential employees can become your next rock stars!

The role of the HR Manager is to be a member of and advise the C-level team (CEO, CFO, COO, etc.), manage the HR department, and create or update high-level HR policies.

Employers in Alberta have many rights regarding employment standards, human rights, privacy, occupational health and safety, and employer-employee relationships. This article covers many of these, but you must keep updated on changing provincial and municipal legislation.