Employee health is organizational wealth

Ignoring employee health carries big risks. Find out how to promote healthy practices within your workplace.

How to gain and retain top performers

Are you doing everything you can to attract and retain top talent to your organization?

Beyond the dollar: How non-financial incentives help retain staff

Creative incentives – like Ice Cream Fridays – can be key in fostering better staff engagement.

Help Wanted. Apply Within: Tips for hiring for difficult-to-fill positions

Having trouble filling positions at your nonprofit? It’s not just you: nonprofit hiring is a tough gig.

Human Resources Q&A: Creating a retention strategy

Does your organization struggle with retaining great employees? Consider creating a formal retention strategy.

Results from 2012 Nonprofit Compensation & Benefits Study now available

Findings from CharityVillage’s second annual Canadian Nonprofit Sector Compensation & Benefits Study.

Human Resources Q&A: Why managers should encourage staff to take vacations

Why should managers care whether employees take their vacation time? Isn’t it up to the employee to make sure they taking the time they need?

How employee engagement can drive organizational change

The ability for employers to motivate, inspire and engage employees is fundamental to the success of any nonprofit — that much is obvious. But how nonprofit employers go about engaging employees to drive organizational change or achieve their mission is far less clear.

Human Resources Q&A: I’m afraid my job is at risk

A reader wonders whether a written analysis of her day-to-day duties as compared with her job description might put her job at risk.

Treat them like professionals and they’ll play like professionals

These were Governor General David Johnston’s words of advice to the nearly 500 delegates at the National Summit for the Charitable and Nonprofit Sector. This sentiment seemed most appropriate for improving conditions for the attraction and retention of paid staff in the nonprofit sector.