Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to provide HR practitioners with a model to engage employees in organizational improvement initiatives, which is positive, creative, and inclusive. Design/methodology/approach: The design for this paper is based upon the author’s experience and reading,...

Purpose: This paper aims to demonstrate how appreciative inquiry methods can be applied by managers to developing and reviewing business strategy as an alternative, more inclusive and positive approach than is traditionally adopted. Design/methodology/approach: Two cases are presented emanating...

While indemnity clauses historically have been understood as a means of allocating risk associated with third party claims against one of the parties to a contract, parties occasionally design these clauses to address direct claims between them as well. In Weyerhaeuser Company Ltd. v. Ontario...