Articles by Olga Scherbina
Reducing Accent or Losing Your Identity?
Hope to see people tomorrow at our November Diversity Roundtable at BC HRMA (Nov 1st @ 5:30pm). We have a panel of three experts who will share with us their experiences in managing language barriers …
BC HRMA Diversity Roundtable: How to deal with language barriers in a Diverse Workforce
Where: BC HRMA’s office
When: November 1, 2012 at 5:30pm
Sometimes, communication problems arise from language barriers such as unintelligible accented speech, a different tone in written documents, and/or the tone of one’s voice. At this RT …
BC EMPLOYERS RECOGNIZED FOR WORKFORCE DIVERSITY & INCLUSION
Five British Columbia employers from Retail, Tourism, Food and Beverage, Service and Non-profit sectors, were recognized yesterday for their leadership and commitment to workplace diversity and inclusion, at the 2012 BC Workplace Inclusion Conference.
Presented by …
Mass Email to Canadian GLBT Community from Jason Kenney, Citizenship and Immigration Minister
Citizenship and Immigration Minister Jason Kenney is on the defensive, telling Xtra he is surprised by the angry reaction to the email he sent out Sept 24 touting the government’s plan to protect the rights …
Do policies of the lowest common denominator bring about system-level, change?
In 2012, Olga Shcherbyna defended her thesis as a part of her graduate studies at the UBC’s School of Community and Regional Planning. A two-year study examined the success factors of the Toronto Region Immigrant …
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