Queen’s Centre for Business Venturing Announces Canada’s
Best Small & Medium Employers
Survey reveals employee engagement at an all-time high among winners
Kingston, ON, February 10, 2010 – Fifty organizations from across the country have
been selected as the Best Small & Medium Employers in Canada in a study released
today by Queen's Centre for Business Venturing (QCBV) at Queen's School of Business
in conjunction with Hewitt Associates, a global human resources consulting and
outsourcing company. Canadian organizations with between 50 and 399 permanent
employees are eligible to participate in the ranking.
“Despite the challenging economy over the past year, employee engagement among the
fifty organizations selected as the best rose to the highest level seen in the study’s sixyear history,” said survey co-ordinator Einar Westerlund, director of project development
at QCBV. “This reflects employers' attention to the ‘people side’ of their enterprises
during both the good and the not-so-good times. The best continue to achieve success by
paying disciplined attention to the basics of effective human resources management, with
special strength shown in how their people's performance is managed.”
The Best Small & Medium Employers in Canada study focuses on measuring employee
engagement, and allows employers to discover the degree of intellectual and emotional
commitment employees have in their workplace. Each organization’s results are
benchmarked; this allows companies to gauge their strengths against others in their
specific industry or overall.
“The businesses and public service institutions selected for this year’s list provide a
reflection of the true diversity of the SME sector in Canada -- a community which by far
includes more employees than any other sector in the country,” said Westerlund.
50 Best Small & Medium Employers in Canada of 2010:
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Booty Camp Fitness Inc.
ISL Engineering and Land Services Ltd.
Hood Group
RL Solutions
Radiology Consultants Associated
Concept Electric Ltd.
Gibraltar Solutions Inc.
PEOPLEsource Staffing Solutions
EPIC Information Solutions Inc.
Vista Projects Limited
Kawartha Credit Union Limited
Bull, Housser & Tupper LLP
FUSE Marketing Group Inc.
Toronto
ON
Edmonton
AB
Sherwood Park
AB
Toronto
ON
Calgary
AB
Calgary
AB
Mississauga
ON
Toronto
ON
Winnipeg
MB
Calgary
AB
Peterborough
ON
Vancouver
BC
Toronto
ON
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Unitron Hearing Ltd.
Miele Ltd.
McMillan
Teva Neuroscience Canada
CBCI Telecom Canada Ltd.
Accubid Systems
Habañero Consulting Group
Solutions 2 GO Inc.
Benefits by Design Inc.
Nintendo of Canada Ltd.
Peel Senior Link
Wakefield Canada Inc.
Stewart Weir
Quadra Chemicals Ltd
Birchwood Automotive Group
Klick Inc.
Lakeside Process Controls Ltd.
Carma Developers
MKS Inc.
Greater Edmonton Foundation: Housing for
Seniors
Halogen Software Inc.
CWB Group
Sparling's Propane Co. Limited
Maple Reinders Constructors Ltd.
Uvalux Tanning & Support
Cole Engineering Group Ltd.
Kingston Ross Pasnak LLP
Allergan Inc.
Cruickshank Construction Limited
Cambridge Public Library Board
Getinge Canada Limited
Spectra Credit Union
National Leasing
Terracon Geotechnique Ltd.
Mennonite Savings and Credit Union
Gateway Mechanical Services
Joe Fortes Seafood & Chop House
L'Union Canadienne
Kitchener
ON
Vaughan
ON
Ottawa
ON
Montreal
QC
Lachine
QC
Concord
ON
Vancouver
BC
Mississauga
ON
Port Coquitlam
BC
Vancouver
BC
Mississauga
ON
Toronto
ON
Sherwood Park
AB
Vaudreuil-Dorion
QC
Winnipeg
MB
Toronto
ON
Mississauga
ON
Calgary
AB
Waterloo
ON
Edmonton
AB
Kanata
ON
Mississauga
ON
Blyth
ON
Mississauga
ON
Woodstock
ON
Markham
ON
Edmonton
AB
Markham
ON
Kingston
ON
Cambridge
ON
Mississauga
ON
Estevan
SK
Winnipeg
MB
Fort McMurray
AB
Kitchener
ON
Edmonton
AB
Vancouver
BC
Quebec City
QC
While this year's list of the Best Small & Medium Employers has just been released, the
next study is already underway with registration now open. For more information or to
register for the upcoming survey, please visit: http://business.queensu.ca/bsme
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About Queen's Centre for Business Venturing (QCBV)
Based at Queen’s School of Business, Canada’s leading business school, QCBV's
mandate is to become the leading and definitive source of knowledge and expertise in the
creation, leadership and management of new ventures. It will accomplish this by
developing innovative curriculum, providing access to pools of capital to fund new
ventures, conducting applied research, brokering and being a hub of SME and new
venture knowledge, and by playing a key role with decision-making bodies.
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For more information:
Please contact:
Sandra Olszowka
Director, Projects
Queen’s Centre for Business Venturing
Queen’s School of Business
1.877.955.1800 or http://business.queensu.ca/bsme
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