On a Personnel Note

ow, December already. It

doesn’t feel like a year since we
were unpacking and settling into our
new Birch offices. Time flies when
you are having fun!

November staffing activity was
busy. Medi Ranjbary is now a RFT
PC support analyst in Computer
Services. John Boylan is leaving the
Library to be the new RFT Payroll
clerk I, replacing Ivana Schier, who is
assuming Karen Gordon’s duties.
Karen is the new RFT payroll clerk I,
replacing Iris Cunningham, who is
moving to Financial Aid.
Congratulations to all!

Mike Hellerin and Robin Porter
are TPT ECCE assistants in the Child
Care Centre, helping Janet
MacDonald deal with all those
anxious pre-Christmas children. Good
luck, guys!

Terry Orr is the new TPT MPS
technician, helping out in Media
Production Services while Dianella
Knight is busy with motherhood.

You may have noticed a new face
on campus assisting Facilities. Eric
Calinisan is the TFT Maintenance

People, Performance, and Pay:

Dynamic Compensation for Changing
Organizations by Thomas Flannery,

David Hofrichter and Paul Platten HF
5549.5 C67 F57 1996

This book identifies today’s four most
common organizational work cultures
— functional, process, time-based, and
network — and explains how to align
innovative pay policies within each.

The Management of Ethnic

Secessionist Conflict: The Big
Neighbour Syndrome

by Abeysinghe Navaratna-Bandara JF
1061 N39 1995
This book explores how ethnic

worker I, replacing Kelly who is on
leave.

Reinhold Klein is a TPT driver,
helping Rena in Stores. Reinhold is
filling in while Tim MacKenzie is on
leave.

There were two resignations last
month. Elizabeth DuPlessis resigned
her RFT program assistant position in
CANASEAN and Carol Paskaruk has
resigned her RFT Admission/
Registration assistant position. She is,
however, working as the TPT
receptionist in Music with another
Carol (McQuarrie).

Positions for the RFT Admissions/
Registration assistant and RFT
secretary in Registration are currently
being recruited. Jeanne Classen is
retiring in January, so we are trying to
recruit quickly to take advantage of
valuable training time with her.

We have had a couple of computer
training sessions recently, but they
were for specific areas. A full schedule
will begin in January.

Personnel Services is hosting some
lunch time sessions this month.
Surviving Christmas Stress Syndrome

secessionist conflicts in a modern state,
which is subject to the influence of a
larger neighboring, can be settled by the
devolution of government rather than by
repression, secession, or annexation.
Situations analyzed include India/East
Pakistan, Turkey/Cyprus, Australia/
Papua New Guinea, India/Sri Lanka,
and Syria/Lebanon.

Prehistoric Exchange Systems in North
America E 98 C7 P73 1994

This volume presents the current state of
knowledge about regional exchange
systems in North America, analyzing

the dynamic processes of change,
stability, rate of growth, and collapse of

will be held on December 11. Details on ©

this and other offerings will be in a flyer
to be released on December 8.

I would like to close by wishing
everyone a safe and Merry Christmas.
Please stop by and see us any time. We
hope that Santa is good to everybody —
you deserve it!

Submitted by Dale Gagne

regional exchange systems relative to
sociopolitical complexity.

You Have Heard This Before: Street
Involved Youth and the Service Gaps

by Manjit Chand and Lisa Thompson HV
4510 B7 C453 1997

This newly released 44-page report
identifies service-related issues in
Vancouver’s urban core for street-involved
youth, i.e., youth who have grown up in
urban Vancouver and become involved in
street life or teenagers who have lost their
family ties and social support systems,
lack dependable sources of food and
shelter, and have gravitated to downtown
Vancouver.

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