Non-profits to face HR problems.OTTAWA Ottawa, city, Canada Ottawa (ŏt`əwə), city (1991 pop. 313,987), capital of Canada, SE Ont., at the confluence of the Ottawa and Rideau rivers. Hull, Que. -- The non-profit sector The nonprofit sector, also called the third sector, civic sector or voluntary sector, is a third area of an economy, distinct from the public sector and the private sector. It is made up of all of the non-profit organizations in the economy. can expect developing labour force problems according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. a report published by Canadian Canadian (kənā`dēən), river, 906 mi (1,458 km) long, rising in NE New Mexico. and flowing E across N Texas and central Oklahoma into the Arkansas River in E Oklahoma. Policy Research Networks. Several factors contribute to future human resource issues that will cause problems of recruitment and retention: * an aging labour force, * the presence of large numbers of female employees with young children; * a high proportion of workers with post-secondary education who will be in demand from higher paying government and for-profit for-prof·it adj. Established or operated with the intention of making a profit: a for-profit organization. employers. These problems are indicated by the first report on employment and human resource issues in the non-profit area, Mapping the Non-profit Sector, prepared by Kathryn McMullen and Grant Schellenberg. The study is based on Statistics Canada's Workplace and Employee Survey. For the first time Statscan surveyed nonprofit organizations Nonprofit Organization An association that is given tax-free status. Donations to a non-profit organization are often tax deductible as well. Notes: Examples of non-profit organizations are charities, hospitals and schools. . Of the almost 900,000 people working in the non-profit sector in 1999 three quarters were women says a recently released report on human resources The fancy word for "people." The human resources department within an organization, years ago known as the "personnel department," manages the administrative aspects of the employees. in non-profit sector employment and issues. The authors note that although interest in the non-profit sector has surged in recent years and more has been learned about volunteers and charitable giving, "there has been a notable absence of information about paid employees and human resource issues in the sector." The non-profit sector accounted for almost 60,000 workplaces representing 8 per cent of job sites in the survey, The total payroll was about $22 billion. In addition, the number of people employed in the sector was about 8 per cent of the employees in the survey. For the most part, both the non-profit and for-profit sectors were comprised of small workplaces of fewer than 10 employees while large workplaces of 20 or more employees were more common among the quasi [Latin, Almost as it were; as if; analogous to.] In the legal sense, the term denotes that one subject has certain characteristics in common with another subject but that intrinsic and material differences exist between them. government sector. As well, most employment within the non-profit sector is concentrated in middle age groups with workers aged 45 years or more accounting for about 39 per cent of the total employees. This, says the report "has implications for retention and recruitment over the coming decade ..." The fact that one-fifth of all paid workers in the non-profit sector are women who have at least one child less than 12-years of age at home creates its own retention and recruitment demands. Non profits will face future competition from government and for profit sectors as the baby boom generation retires. |
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