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1. Achieving our potential: The Plastics Industry to 2016 (2007)
Labour Market Update Project
Authors: Prism Economics and Analysis
Collection: Research Materials
In this report, the authors point to a combination of factors that add up to difficult times for the plastics industry in Canada. Some factors may be temporary, like the overvalued Canadian dollar. But others, like increased competition from China and India, are part of a new reality the sector must deal with.
The authors also note that a surge in interest in energy efficiency and environmental protection is driving consumer preferences and shaping government policy. Adapting to these challenges by altering products and production is a priority.
They conclude that the plastics sector will overcome its current problems but caution companies to prepare now in order to be able to take advantage of new opportunities as they emerge. A crucial factor will be the recruitment and retention of skilled workers.
The report was published by the Canadian Plastics Sector Council (CPSC), a national not-for-profit association created to explore and address emerging human resources issues in the plastics processing industry.
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2. Assessing and Recognizing Foreign Credentials in Canada - Employers' Views (2001)
Authors: Derwyn Sangster, Canadian Labour and Business Centre
Collection: Research Materials
The Canadian Labour Business Centre (CLBC) carried out a study from October 2000 and January 2001 exploring Canadian employers’ views and experiences with assessing and recognizing the credentials of foreign-trained workers, as well as approaches to raising the awareness of employers on these subjects.
“The assessment and recognition of the education credentials of foreign-trained workers is an issue of growing importance in Canada. An accurate understanding and evaluation of the skills, knowledge and experience of foreign-trained workers plays a key role in enabling these workers to find jobs in which this preparation can be used to full advantage. When this happens, the individual benefits from earnings in keeping with his/her skills, and the employer and economy benefit from the full productive use of those skills. When this does not happen, the full productive potential of the labour force goes unrealized, and the affected individuals and their families suffer lower incomes and standards of living.” (Executive Summary)
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Added: 2007-03-22
3. Business Retention & Expansion Initiative Strategy (2004)
Authors: Business Retention and Expansion Leadership and Task Force Team, Canadian Manufacturers & Exporters, Newfoundland & Labrador Division
Collection: Research Materials
The Business Retention and Expansion (BRE) Initiative is an economic development tool that promotes job growth by helping communities/industries identify barriers to business growth and survival. It is a formalized, systematic, volunteer-driven process for identifying business issues and opportunities and prioritizing projects to address these needs.
This report identifies the needs and opportunities of the manufacturing sector in Newfoundland and Labrador.
Added: 2007-05-30
4. Canadian Manufacturers and Exporters, 20/20, Building our Vision for the Future (2006)
The Future of Manufacturing in Canada, Perspectives and Recommendations on Workforce Capabilities
Authors: Canadian Manufacturers and Exporters
Collection: Research Materials
Canadian manufacturers are restructuring their businesses in response to the challenges they face in global markets. The emergence of new market opportunities and disruptive low-cost competition, the rapid development of new technological capabilities, more demanding customers, a more demanding public, and intense bottom-line pressures are changing the nature of manufacturing worldwide.
This report looks at how the business of manufacturing is being transformed and redefined by changes in the market place and how companies react to them.
Added: 2007-05-16
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5. Capital, Community and Jobs (1998)
Local Solutions for Financing Investments in a New Economy
Authors: Canadian Labour Market and Productivity Centre
Collection: Research Materials
In recent years, issues pertaining to access to capital for productive investment have risen steadily on Canada’s public policy agenda. They have also emerged more prominently as concerns of Canadian business and labour, the two constituencies of the Canadian Labour Market and Productivity Centre (CLMPC). An important new focus for the CLMPC is a current trend towards localized financial innovations in all parts of the country.
In 1997, the government of Canada’s four regional development agencies and the CLMPC worked together to study examples of recently established local investment financing models (LIFMs), in order to learn what micro-level institutions and practices have achieved in attempting to reduce financing barriers for small business in communities and regions across Canada. The results of this collaboration have been recorded in this document, with relevant data and analysis provided by the CLMPC through eighteen case studies of LIFMs in western Canada, Ontario, Quebec and Atlantic Canada. This report contains information that would be useful to private and public sector actors and decision-makers in communities and regions eager to obtain information about the practical experiences of their counterparts nation-wide.
Added: 2007-10-25
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6. Changing Times, New Ways of Working (1997)
Alternative Working Arrangements and Changes in Working Time
Authors: Canadian Labour Market and Productivity Centre
Collection: Research Materials
As the world of work changes in response to forces like globalization, technological advances and competition, more and more workplaces are turning to new work arrangements such as flextime, job sharing and part-time work. This report provides analysis of the impact, costs and benefits of alternative approaches to work arrangements and working time. It establishes an important link between the changes occurring in the labour market and business environment, and specific attempts to control change in the workplace. It sketches the elements of a framework for developing successful new work arrangements in the workplace, and also highlights gaps in the current knowledge base, identifying areas where more research is needed in order to understand the longer term implications of these arrangements.
Added: 2007-11-07
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7. Connecting the Dots... (2007)
Linking Training Investment to Business Outcomes and the Economy
Authors: Canadian Council on Learning (CCL), Allan Bailey
Collection: Research Materials
Canada’s preparedness to compete in the increasingly competitive, knowledge-based, global marketplace appears to be in jeopardy because of a lack of awareness that investing in the human capacity of Canada’s workforce is paramount to success. This paper reviews some of the key issues relating to Canada’s economic performance and explores critical linkages between weak national productivity growth, business performance and underinvestment in training and skills development.
In their reflections, the authors consider the following questions: What is the real benefit to Canada’s national economy from training employees? What is the payoff to businesses for investing in training? What is the evidence that training improves the bottom line? Are there any credible and easy-to-use strategies organizations can adopt to evaluate business returns and performance improvements from training?
Added: 2008-06-19
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8. Dealing with Downsizing (2009)
Authors: The Alliance of Sector Councils (TASC)
Collection: Learning Materials
In this document, The Alliance of Sector Councils (TASC) offers practical tips to help businesses minimize the impact of tough economic times on their organizations.
The suggestions are divided into three categories: holding on to the employees the business needs; avoiding layoffs altogether; and, as a last resort, handling layoffs in the best manner possible.
The authors encourage employers to increase communication; involve workers in decision-making; boost morale by investing in training; and investigate government programs that may help avoid permanent layoffs.
If layoffs are inevitable, the authors encourage employers to plan them carefully; understand the relevant law; and treat people with dignity and respect.
TASC is the coordinating body for more than 35 sector councils and similar organizations throughout Canada.
Added: 2012-10-31
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9. Employee Retention, Labour Turnover and Knowledge Transfer (2004)
A Report from the Round Table Discussions with Selected Employment Groups
Authors: Clarence Lochhead, Alex Stephens
Collection: Research Materials
This report, commissioned by the Canadian Plastics Sector Council (CPSC), provides an analysis of best practices in worker retention and knowledge transfer strategies. It contains both a review of the literature on best practices and a number of case studies of best practices in Canadian plastics manufacturing firms.
The authors found that low turnover was not necessarily the result of a formalized retention strategy. Instead, many of the firms were using their own knowledge and creativity to develop innovative practices that were appropriate to their own unique circumstances.
At the same time, there were common principles upon which good retention practices are built. The firms studied all had a strategic understanding of their workforce skill requirements; emphasized the importance of responsive and open communications; and based their practices upon the principle of treating people fairly.
CPSC is a national association set up to explore and address emerging human resources issues in the plastics processing industry.
Added: 2012-02-07
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10. Employer Investment in Workplace Learning (2008)
Report on the Toronto Roundtable
Series: Employer Investment in Workplace Learning
Authors: Ron Saunders
Collection: Research Materials
This document reports on the first of a series of regional roundtables on employer investment in workplace learning. The Work and Learning Knowledge Centre of the Canadian Council on Learning (CCL) has partnered with Canadian Policy Research Networks to convene a series of roundtables on this topic, involving senior government officials and senior representatives from business, labour, colleges/universities and NGOs from a particular province or region. The goal of the roundtables is to identify practical steps to ensure that the quantity and quality of workplace learning in Canada matches the needs of the economy and maximizes the potential of Canadian workers.
The body of this report is divided into the following sections:
- Background
- Highlights of the discussion in Toronto
- Identifying issues and opportunities
- Best bets for improving investment in workplace learning
- Next steps
Added: 2008-04-03
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