Presented at the Canadian Industrial Relations Association Conference (CIRA), Toronto, June, 2005

Presented at the Academy of Management Conference (AoM), Hawaii, August, 2005

Presented at the Atlantic School of Business (ASB) Conference in Halifax, October, 2005

Presented at the Academy of Management Conference (AoM), Atlanta, August 2006

Presented at the Administrative Science Association of Canada (ASAC, Toronto, May, 2005

Researchers have been examining barriers and challenges for women in leadership positions from a variety of perspectives since the 1980's when the "glass ceiling" concept was coined. More recently researchers have been examining whether women are being placed in precarious leadership positions. Rya...

Executive Summary: Labour markets in Canada continue to be affected by three principle forces of change, namely globalization of competition, technological advances, and changes in the demographic structure of the workplace (Maxell & Saunders, 2003). Elizabeth Beale, President of the Atlantic Provin...

Deficiencies in a number of key human resource-related areas have been identified as potential threats to the Canadian biotechnology sector's success. Given its importance as an emerging industry and, its pressing needs relative to leadership and human resource (HR) practice development, the biotech...

Employee engagement has become an important measure of employee performance and it has been linked to higher overall firm performance outcomes. Studies have shown that employee engagement may be impacted by both organizational culture and ethical workplace climate. For example, organizational cultur...

Workplace bullying is costing organizations millions if not more each year. The costs associated with workplace bullying come from loss of productivity, legal settlements and loss of good employees who have been bullied and chose to leave the organization. Workplace bullying has negative effects on ...

Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) are becoming more and more common practice in business, but have varied results. M&As are at the forefront in the biotech industry as firms look at ways to increase their pipeline or grow sales to improve shareholder value. Since R&D expenditures among biotech firms is...

Presented at the Administrative Science Association of Canada (ASAC), Toronto, May 2005.

Presented at the Atlantic School of Business (ASB) in Halifax, Oct. 2004

Presented at the Sprott School of Business Doctorial Consortium, Ottawa, April, 2005 [Paper co-awarded best paper and awarded one of the best presentation awards].

Although there has been extensive research about managing the costs of health and benefit plans, there has been little focus on preventative approaches such as healthy workplaces. To date, the research has focused on the reasons why organizations should take a proactive approach. However, there h...

The bulk of research on expatriate assignments has been focused on traditional expatriate assignments which typically involves a timeframe of over a year or more. Research has shown that the traditional expatriate assignments are plagued by high costs, high failure rates, and low rates of retention....