Appendix A: Human Resources Management Plan

Includes competencies, position accountabilities, training, career pathing, leadership and management development.

Design career paths that encourage staff to grow within their areas of greatest strength (including defining graded levels of achievement for key roles and partnering with other ministries to expand career pathing opportunities).

Increase on-the-job training and development opportunities for staff (e.g., special projects, temporary assignments, cross-training, job shadowing, mentoring, e-learning).

Implement a leadership and management development program to select and develop new and existing management talent and increase management and leadership capacity.

Includes health and safety, recruitment, flexibility, process improvement, absenteeism.

Implement a healthy workplace guide and expand existing health promotion programs.

Manage absenteeism and impact on workloads.

Recruit and retain talented employees: Identify difficult to recruit positions and future staffing requirements, and conduct targeted recruiting.

Develop specialized professional expertise in the management of projects and major initiatives.

Improve business practices and processes to increase capacity and flexibility.

Includes performance planning and development, recognition.

Define key roles and responsibilities for managing staff and related performance expectations for managers and supervisors.

Implement a performance-based individual and group recognition and reward program (build on existing corporate and Ministry specific programs and initiatives).