Workforce Planning and Labour Forecasting Study Guide
Learn about the essential steps in workforce planning, including forecasting labor needs, managing surpluses and shortages, and integrating DEI principles. This guide covers strategic goal setting, program implementation, and evaluation for effective human capital management.
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Human Rights, Equity, and Occupational Health and Safety
Bona Fide Occupational Requirements and Justifications
This document outlines the legal defences of bona fide occupational requirement and bona fide justification under the Canadian Human Rights Act.
- Bona fide justification (BFJ)
- Canadian Human Rights Act (CHRA)
- Duty to accommodate
- Undue hardship
- Direct discrimination
- Indirect discrimination
- Adverse effect discrimination
- Grismer case
Bona Fide Occupational Requirements and Justifications in Canadian Human Rights Law
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BFOR and BFJ Investigation Processes
The Commission integrates a unified test into its process for investigating complaints where a BFOR/BFJ defence is raised under the CHRA.
- prima facie case
- BFOR/BFJ defence
- unified test
- rational connection
- good faith
- reasonable necessity
- prohibited grounds
- direct or indirect effect
- undue hardship
- individual accommodation
Equity, Fairness, Health, and Safety
This presentation examines the legal framework for human resource management in Canada, including employment legislation related to equity, fairness, privacy, and workplace health and safety.
- Legal framework for human resource management
- Federal and provincial jurisdictions
- Discrimination
- Direct and indirect discrimination
- Prohibited grounds
- Duty to Accommodate
- Employment Equity Groups
- Protection of Privacy (PIPEDA)
- Employment and Labour Standards
- Pay Equity
- Workplace Health and Safety
- Occupational Health & Safety Act
- Internal Responsibility
Workplace Health and Safety Frameworks
This content examines workplace health and safety through employer responsibilities, employee rights, enforcement mechanisms, and current emerging issues.
- Lost-time injury claims
- Employer responsibilities
- Employee rights
- Right to refuse unsafe work
- Occupational health and safety legislation
- Enforcement and inspection
- Psychological health and safety
- Workplace stressors
- Worker fatigue
- Workplace violence
- Harassment and bullying
Ontario Occupational Health and Safety Overview
- Occupational Health and Safety Act
- Internal Responsibility System
- Employer Duties
- Supervisor Duties
- Worker Duties
- Worker Rights
- Right to Know
- Right to Participate
- Right to Refuse Unsafe Work
- Joint Health and Safety Committees
- Health and Safety Representatives
- Hazard Categories and Controls
- General Duty Clause
- Health and Safety Regulations
Hazard Categories and Injury Prevention
A guide to workplace health and safety risk assessments, hazard categories, and preventing injury and illness through choice of controls.
- Hazard categories
- Risk assessment
- Preventing injury and illness
- Hierarchy of hazard controls
- Personal protective equipment
- Risk probability
- Risk severity
- Workplace violence
- Psychosocial hazards
- Occupational health and safety training
- Occupational Health and Safety Act
Workplace Health and Safety Responsibilities
This presentation covers health and safety responsibilities for employers, supervisors, and workers within the Internal Responsibility System.
- Internal Responsibility System
- Employer responsibility
- Supervisor responsibility
- Worker responsibility
- JHSC/Health and Safety Rep.
- Health and safety policy
- Workplace inspection
- MSD related injuries
Human Resource Planning, Job Design, and Selection
Workforce Planning and Labour Forecasting
Discuss how to plan for the human resources needed to carry out the organization's strategy, including labour demand and supply.
- Workforce Planning
- Forecasting Labour Demand
- Forecasting Labour Supply
- Goal Setting and Strategic Planning
- Program Implementation and Evaluation
- Addressing Labour Surplus
- Addressing Labour Shortage
- Workforce Utilization Review
- Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
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Succession Planning and Human Resources Recruiting
The process of identifying high-potential employees through succession planning and various activities for recruiting human resources including policies, sources, and recruiter traits.
- Succession Planning
- Recruiting Human Resources
- Human Resources Policies
- Internal Recruiting
- External Recruiting
- Recruitment Sources
- Digital Recruiting
- Job Ads
- Public Agencies
- Staffing Companies
Analyzing Work and Designing Jobs
This topic covers workflow analysis, job analysis, and different approaches to job design within an organization's structure.
- Workflow analysis
- Work flow design
- Analyze output
- Analyze activity
- Analyze inputs
- Equipment
- Human resources
- Centralized structure
- Decentralized structure
- Job analysis
Job Analysis and Job Design
This topic covers job description and job specification, job analysis methods, competency models, and approaches to job design.
- Job Description
- Job Specification
- Tasks, Duties, and Responsibilities (TDRs)
- Knowledge, Skills, Abilities, and Other Characteristics (KSAOs)
- Incumbents
- Observers
- National Occupational Classification (NOC)
- Position Analysis Questionnaire
- Competency Models
- Job Design
- Job Redesign
- Work flow analysis
- Job enlargement
- Job enrichment
- Self-managed work teams
- Flexible work arrangements
- Skill Variety
- Task Identity
- Task Significance
- Autonomy
Financial and Investment Analyst Job Analysis
This document outlines sample job descriptions and job specifications for financial and investment analysts including main duties and employment requirements.
- Job description
- Job specifications
- Financial and investment analysts
- Financial risk evaluation
- Financial forecasts
- Capital management
- Cash flow planning
- Investment project analysis
- Financial portfolio management
- Employment requirements
- Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation
- Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA)
Strategies and Developments in Human Resource Management
This presentation defines human resource management and explains how HRM contributes to organizational performance, supports organizational strategy, and manages people-related risks.
- Human capital
- Strategic partner
- Business partner services
- Administrative services and transactions
- Recruitment and selection
- Training, learning, and development
- Performance management
- Employee and labour relations
- Compliance with laws
- Organizational strategy
- People risks
- Human resource functional competencies
- CPHR Canada Competency Framework
- HR designations
- Code of ethics
- Labour force composition
- Human Resources Information Systems (HRIS)
- Analytics and Artificial Intelligence
Selecting Employees and Selection Processes
Decisions are made about who will and who will not be invited to fill job openings through the selection process.
- Selection process
- Candidate Experience
- Legal standards
- Human rights and privacy requirements
- Reliability
- Validity
- Criterion-related validity
- Predictive validation
- Concurrent validation
- Content validity
- Construct validity
- Ability to Generalize
- Practical Value
- Skills-based hiring
- Job applications
- Resumes
- Applicant tracking systems
- References
- Background screening
- Physical Ability tests
Employment Selection and Interviewing Methods
This content covers employment tests, interview types, selection decision models, and communicating job offers.
- Personality Inventories
- Honesty & Drug and Alcohol Tests
- Medical Examinations
- Non-directive interviews
- Structured interviews
- Situational interview
- Behavioural interview
- Asynchronous video interview
- Multiple-hurdle model
- Compensatory model
- Selection decisions
- Job offer negotiations
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