Webinar: Treating Human Resources Like Human Beings - and Getting the Job Done

As part of the Food Business Bootcamp
Treating Human Resources Like Human Beings . . . and Getting the Job Done
Presenter: Russ Christianson
Nov 25th: 1pm eastern / 10am pacific

Food businesses have a bad reputation for chewing up and spitting out their workers.  Community food organizations that have a social justice and food security mission need to make their people a number one priority.  Motivated, happy people are more productive, more collaborative and more creative.

This workshop will cover the main motivations for people in workplaces, the importance of the social aspects at work, fair pay for good work, hiring (and firing) decisions, job descriptions that matter and performance appraisal. Please bring your burning questions to the webinar.

Human Resources Basics
• Human Motivations
• Task vs. Social orientation
• Fair pay for good work
• Merit Pay:  Yes or No?
• The hiring decision:  Recruiting, Interviewing and Deciding
• Job descriptions that matter:  Key accountabilities
• Performance Appraisal
• The firing process:  Progressive discipline
• Employment Standards Act
• On-the-job training and job rotation

Russ Christianson Bio:
Russ has been working with communities, co-operative enterprises and businesses for three decades.  Over the course of this time, he has encouraged and supported the development of over 180 co-operatives, with a seventy percent success rate (for which he gives the founders credit). 

A common theme for all of Russ’ work is sustainability:  The collective creation and sharing of wealth within an ecological framework. 

As a volunteer in his own community of Campbellford, Russ was the founding President of the Aron Theatre Co-operative and the Campbellford Seymour Community Foundation.

Russ graduated from Queen’s Commerce in 1981 and received a Masters of Industrial Relations from the University of Toronto in 1983.