About the Book

This open textbook Human Resources Management – Canadian Edition, by Stéphane Brutus and Nora Baronian (Department of Management, John Molson School of Business, Concordia University), licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, has been adapted from Human Resources Management by University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing. Changes from the original book include:

• Additions of Canadian content (e.g. links, images, videos, cases)
• Updates of content based on the Covid-19 pandemic
• Major revisions to the chapters on the HR environment and Labour Relations based on the Canadian context
• A new chapter on HR Analytics

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This open textbook was developed as a part of the Open Educational Resources Program at Concordia University, Montreal. For more information, please contact oer@concordia.ca.