What Does Human Resources Do?

Beyond providing onboarding orientation, issuing weekly paycheques and knowing all your employee’s personal info, what exactly does the Human Resources department do? How do they add value to your organization? Listed below is an overview of a few key Human Resources functions and how they bring value to your company. Performance Management – Formalized and …

HR Metrics – What to measure?

Measuring the success of business plans, processes and programs is essential within every department of an organization. However, metrics for Human Resources are often less tangible and therefore more difficult to measure. This can make it challenging to illustrate and prove the department’s value and can also lead some people to believe that measuring HR …

2015 Employer Wish List

What do your employees want from you in 2015? Which of their needs are satisfied and which are lacking? These are questions all managers should be consistently asking. Knowing the answers to these is part of incorporating Strategic HR into your organizational goals and vision for the coming year. We, at Salopek & Associates, took …

Employee Engagement vs. Happiness

The term ‘employee engagement’ is getting a lot of airtime these days. Social media feeds are bombarded with articles (‘6 Ways to Increase Employee Engagement’) expressing the importance of engaging our employees. But something is missing, and that is clarity of definition. Unlike common belief, engagement is not employee happiness, or satisfaction. Neither of these …

Alberta HR Trends

It is clear to Salopek & Associates that our clients understand the importance of keeping on top of business and HR trends. Staying ahead of the curve and understanding the market they are competing in is important to growing their business and attracting and retaining the talent they need to be successful. Having shared the …