Awards, recognition and special events

BRAVO! A guide to implementing a culture of recognition
This guide includes a seven-step model to building a culture of recognition and a list of 20 effective methods for instilling pride.

National Public Service Week Guide
This guide has been developed to assist you and your volunteers in planning and organizing your events.

Classification

Classification monitoring framework
The objective of the classification system of the federal public service is to establish the relative value of all work in the public service in an equitable, consistent and effective manner and to provide a basis for the compensation of public service employees.

Departmental classification performance report
Report template

Guide to allocating positions using the 1999 occupational group definitions
This guide provides advice on allocating work in the Public Service to occupational groups using the 1999 occupational group definitions. It also provides background information on the nature of the occupational groups and their definitions

OC Advisor Learning Curriculum
Training and learning approaches for the new training/learning Curriculum for Organisation and Classification Advisors.

Principles drawn from Federal Court and Public Service Labour Relations Board decisions
Brief summary of some of the fundamental principles applicable in the course of a classification grievance resolution process, as highlighted by jurisprudence.

Training/learning competency profile for Organisation and Classification Advisors
Designed to respond to management requirements and the training and learning needs of the community, this profile reflects our commitment to develop and extend the capacity of the classification professional.

Diversity and employment equity

Coordinators' corner for Aboriginal Awareness Week
How to organize, select topics and activities

Employment equity and diversity award guidelines
Embracing Change, the action plan tabled by the Task Force on the Participation of Visible Minorities, recommended the development of an annual national awards program to recognise individuals who make exemplary effort and achieve exemplary progress related to the Action Plan.

Human resources management

Compensation improvements
EX and certain excluded or unrepresented groups and levels.

Gold Standard
The Gold Standard is based on the Performance Management Program for executives and can be used to assess both management achievement and the overall health of an organization.

Incumbent Data Element Dictionary
The purpose of the Incumbent Data Element Dictionary is to identify and define all the data elements in the Incumbent System and identify the source of the information stored in each data element and/or the rules by which the information is generated.

Informal Conflict Management System
An Informal Conflict Management System is a systematic approach to managing and resolving conflicts in the workplace quickly and constructively.

Integrated Planning Guide
Integrated planning is central to the successful implementation of the Public Service Modernization Act and to the promotion of healthy organizations that retain competent, committed and engaged employees across the Public Service.

Integrated planning handbook for deputy ministers and senior managers
Integrated planning can help identify optimal strategies and activities for recruitment, retention, learning, development, employee engagement, promotion, succession, employment equity and official languages.

Pay rates
Pay rates in the public service for unionized and excluded employees.

People Component of the Management Accountability Framework (PCMAF)
The Management Accountability Framework sets out the Treasury Board's expectations of senior public service managers for good public service management. The Office of the Chief Human Resources Officer (OCHRO) is the lead for the People Component of the MAF.

Succession planning and management for senior managers
Planning and managing succession is a critical sub-component of the broader integrated HR and business planning process.

Succession Planning and Management Guide
This guide is intended to provide departments and agencies with a road map of how to implement succession strategies adapted to their needs.

Succession planning and management steps
Effective succession planning cannot succeed without commitment from leaders at all levels, starting at the top.

Learning and leadership development

Build your learning plan
A learning plan is a personalized action plan designed to help you set and meet your professional development goals.

Components of the Career Assignment Program
The objective of CAP is to identify a representative group of individuals who have demonstrated executive potential and to accelerate their development and advancement.

Executive (EX) group qualification standard
Sets out the minimum standard to be applied in accordance with the key leadership competencies profile.

Executive resources
The Executive Management Policy Branch maintains and develops policies and programs to support the human resources management of the Executive Group. The Directorate is also the Secretariat for the Advisory Committee on Senior Level Retention and Compensation.

Leadership resources
For employees interested in developing their leadership skills.

Management Trainee Program
Effective and ineffective behaviours.

Policy on the management of executives
The new policy clarifies the powers of deputy heads, while improving transparency and accountability.

Results from the 2007 census of EXs and feeder group (core public administration); final report
This census was undertaken to improve the government's understanding of the executive community and feeder groups to this community, and to support the strategic management and renewal of the EX community. It will provide valuable evidence to support strategic management and renewal of the EX community.

Official languages

Bilingual offices and facilities
Information for offices and facilities of the Government of Canada that must provide service to Canadians in both official languages.

Campaign products
List of official languages material and publications that are available in electronic formats

Talent management

Career Assignment Program: Leadership Competencies
The 14 manager-level leadership competencies

Executive Group Position Evaluation Plan - September 2005
Executive Group Position Evaluation Plan - September 2005.

Guide for Executives and Managers of executives
Provides guidance for executives and their managers (senior executives who manage other executives) in the implementation of talent management in their organizations.

Guidelines on Performance Management for Certain Senior Excluded or Unrepresented Managers and Specialists (E/U PM)
This document provides guidance to departments for implementation of an approach to performance management that is aligned with the Executive Performance Management Program.

Performance Management Program scorecard
This scorecard was developed to support monitoring of the Performance Management Program for Executives.

PMP scorecards
The Scorecard is one of the ways the Office of the Chief Human Resources Officer (OCHRO) actively monitors the administration of the Performance Management Program for executives.

Science and technology management core competency profile
Guide for science and technology managers with a view to identifying and measuring areas of knowledge, skill and ability that may be improved.

Values and ethics

Dealing with harassment
A guide for managers.

Harassment: dealing with the complaint process
A guide for delegated managers.

Public Servants Disclosure Protection Act
Information on organizational disclosure regimes.

Public Servants Disclosure Protection Act
Information on organizational public reporting obligations.

Public Servants Disclosure Protection Act
Information on handling sensitive information.

Public Servants Disclosure Protection Act
Information on conducting internal investigations of disclosures received.

Public Servants Disclosure Protection Act
Information on access to information and privacy considerations.

Values and Ethics Code for the Public Service
Interpretation guide.

What is ethics?
Ethics examines the rational justification for our moral judgments; it studies what is morally right or wrong, just or unjust.

Workplace well-being
Information sheet for managers.