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R E A L L I F E | C O N F L I C T | S A L A RY pay ALBERTA, PROFESSIONALS LEAD IN PAY HIKES ONCE AGAIN, ALBERTA LEADS PROJECTED 2009 SALARY INCREASES ACCORDING TO WATSON WYATT’S ANNUAL SALARY SURVEY. ACROSS INDUSTRY SECTORS, THE LARGEST INCREASES ARE PROJECTED FOR PROFESSIONAL/ BUSINESS SERVICES FIRMS WHERE EMPLOYERS ARE FORECASTING INCREASES OF 3.92 PER CENT. WHILE SPECIALIST ROLES WITHIN FINANCE CONTINUE TO BE COMPETITIVE, THE DEMAND FOR ENGINEERING TALENT IS DRIVING INCREASES WITHIN PROFESSIONAL FIRMS SUCH AS ENGINEERING CONSULTANTS. 2009 FORECAST 3.46% ALL CANADA 3.35% MARITIMES 3.26% MONTREAL 3.24% OTHER QUE. 3.33% GTA 3.34% SOUTHWESTERN ONT. 3.41% OTHER ONT. 3.46% MAN. 3.50% SASK. 3.69% CALGARY 3.83% OTHER ALTA. 3.41% VANCOUVER 3.37% OTHER B.C. Send us your HR tales from the trenches lunchroom. Or the ofﬁce dispute spun horribly out of control. Or the mail room staffers smoking drugs on the job. HR Professional is looking for your HR horror l stories that illustrate just how crazy and surreal this profession can be. The stories will appear in a future issue of HR Professional and the top l three winners (as judged by us) will receive some great prizes. Names will be changed to protect the innocent. All submissions will be kept conﬁdential. Submit your stories (700 words max) to HR Professional associate editor Duff McCutcheon l dmccutcheon@hrpa.ca. Deadline is Feb. 18, 2009, but get yours in early. Every HR department has them—those “Is this for real?” situations that HR professionals have to ” decipher and deal with from time to time. Like the bra-snapping sales guy that was the terror of the MANAGING P OW E R + U N DE R - 40 + MALE = CONFLICT This’ll elicit some knowing nods around the conference room table: it turns out younger male managers report more onthe-job conﬂict with peers than female and older male managers. Researchers at the University of Toronto recently studied job authority and work conﬂicts by surveying 1,785 U.S. adults on work and stress. Study author Scott Schieman, a U of T sociology professor, sought to determine why some workers have more interpersonal conﬂict than others. He found supervisors and managers reported the most conﬂict—especially if they were males in their early 40s or younger. Reports of conﬂict dropped markedly for male managers over 60. Schieman says some possible interpretations of the data include the idea that younger men are more competitive, which leads to more friction; as well as perceptions by others that the supervisor © YURI ARCURS/BIGSTOCKPHOTO.COM “got their power prematurely,” he says. But why do women report less conﬂict? “There’s a lot of management literature that suggests when women ﬁnd themselves in positions of authority that men have traditionally held, they need to adopt new methods to deal with the potential fallout— including being more co-operative and communal. On the ﬂipside, women who try to manage like men in turn disappoint other women, who hope they’ll be more supportive.” w w w.H RThought L ea der. c om D e c e m b e r 2 0 0 8 / J a n u a r y 2 0 0 9 13 http://www.HRThoughtLeader.com

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HR Professional - December/January 2008 Contents Editor's Letter Contributors Leadership Matters Upfront Legal Compensation Human Capital Talent Management The R-Word Speak No Evil On Message Strategy HR 101 Interview with Donna Wilson Off the Shelf The Last Word

HR Professional - December/January 2008

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