\documentclass[10pt,a4paper]{article} % Packages \usepackage{fancyhdr} % For header and footer \usepackage{multicol} % Allows multicols in tables \usepackage{tabularx} % Intelligent column widths \usepackage{tabulary} % Used in header and footer \usepackage{hhline} % Border under tables \usepackage{graphicx} % For images \usepackage{xcolor} % For hex colours %\usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc} % For unicode character support \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} % Without this we get weird character replacements \usepackage{colortbl} % For coloured tables \usepackage{setspace} % For line height \usepackage{lastpage} % Needed for total page number \usepackage{seqsplit} % Splits long words. %\usepackage{opensans} % Can't make this work so far. Shame. Would be lovely. \usepackage[normalem]{ulem} % For underlining links % Most of the following are not required for the majority % of cheat sheets but are needed for some symbol support. \usepackage{amsmath} % Symbols \usepackage{MnSymbol} % Symbols \usepackage{wasysym} % Symbols %\usepackage[english,german,french,spanish,italian]{babel} % Languages % Document Info \author{Kyla (Kylaaal)} \pdfinfo{ /Title (hr-final-cheat-sheet.pdf) /Creator (Cheatography) /Author (Kyla (Kylaaal)) /Subject (HR final Cheat Sheet) } % Lengths and widths \addtolength{\textwidth}{6cm} \addtolength{\textheight}{-1cm} \addtolength{\hoffset}{-3cm} \addtolength{\voffset}{-2cm} \setlength{\tabcolsep}{0.2cm} % Space between columns \setlength{\headsep}{-12pt} % Reduce space between header and content \setlength{\headheight}{85pt} % If less, LaTeX automatically increases it \renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{0pt} % Remove footer line \renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt} % Remove header line \renewcommand{\seqinsert}{\ifmmode\allowbreak\else\-\fi} % Hyphens in seqsplit % This two commands together give roughly % the right line height in the tables \renewcommand{\arraystretch}{1.3} \onehalfspacing % Commands \newcommand{\SetRowColor}[1]{\noalign{\gdef\RowColorName{#1}}\rowcolor{\RowColorName}} % Shortcut for row colour \newcommand{\mymulticolumn}[3]{\multicolumn{#1}{>{\columncolor{\RowColorName}}#2}{#3}} % For coloured multi-cols \newcolumntype{x}[1]{>{\raggedright}p{#1}} % New column types for ragged-right paragraph columns \newcommand{\tn}{\tabularnewline} % Required as custom column type in use % Font and Colours \definecolor{HeadBackground}{HTML}{333333} \definecolor{FootBackground}{HTML}{666666} \definecolor{TextColor}{HTML}{333333} \definecolor{DarkBackground}{HTML}{03060F} \definecolor{LightBackground}{HTML}{F7F7F7} \renewcommand{\familydefault}{\sfdefault} \color{TextColor} % Header and Footer \pagestyle{fancy} \fancyhead{} % Set header to blank \fancyfoot{} % Set footer to blank \fancyhead[L]{ \noindent \begin{multicols}{3} \begin{tabulary}{5.8cm}{C} \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \vspace{-7pt} {\parbox{\dimexpr\textwidth-2\fboxsep\relax}{\noindent \hspace*{-6pt}\includegraphics[width=5.8cm]{/web/www.cheatography.com/public/images/cheatography_logo.pdf}} } \end{tabulary} \columnbreak \begin{tabulary}{11cm}{L} \vspace{-2pt}\large{\bf{\textcolor{DarkBackground}{\textrm{HR final Cheat Sheet}}}} \\ \normalsize{by \textcolor{DarkBackground}{Kyla (Kylaaal)} via \textcolor{DarkBackground}{\uline{cheatography.com/217870/cs/47974/}}} \end{tabulary} \end{multicols}} \fancyfoot[L]{ \footnotesize \noindent \begin{multicols}{3} \begin{tabulary}{5.8cm}{LL} \SetRowColor{FootBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{p{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Cheatographer}} \\ \vspace{-2pt}Kyla (Kylaaal) \\ \uline{cheatography.com/kylaaal} \\ \end{tabulary} \vfill \columnbreak \begin{tabulary}{5.8cm}{L} \SetRowColor{FootBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{p{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Cheat Sheet}} \\ \vspace{-2pt}Published 20th April, 2026.\\ Updated 20th April, 2026.\\ Page {\thepage} of \pageref{LastPage}. \end{tabulary} \vfill \columnbreak \begin{tabulary}{5.8cm}{L} \SetRowColor{FootBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{p{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Sponsor}} \\ \SetRowColor{white} \vspace{-5pt} %\includegraphics[width=48px,height=48px]{dave.jpeg} Measure your website readability!\\ www.readability-score.com \end{tabulary} \end{multicols}} \begin{document} \raggedright \raggedcolumns % Set font size to small. Switch to any value % from this page to resize cheat sheet text: % www.emerson.emory.edu/services/latex/latex_169.html \footnotesize % Small font. \begin{multicols*}{4} \begin{tabularx}{3.833cm}{x{1.68217 cm} x{1.75083 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{3.833cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Chapter 9 compensation}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Interchange fees & Pay your bills through the wallet \tn % Row Count 2 (+ 2) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} Compensation management & - cash and non-cash rewards in exchange for their work. Direct: wages, variable pay: bonuses, commissions, stocks \tn % Row Count 8 (+ 6) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Total \seqsplit{compensation/rewards} & ALL forms of pay. Direct financial payments (tangible returns), Indirect financial payments (benefits) \tn % Row Count 14 (+ 6) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} Objectives of compensation & Internal Equity - pay related to relative worth of jobs. External equity - paying workers relative to market \tn % Row Count 20 (+ 6) % Row 4 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Determining direct compensation & Phase 1: compensation philosophy (lead, match, lag) Phase 2: job analysis (job description, job specification, performance standards), Phase 3: pricing jobs (job evaluation, market pricing, skill based), phase 4: matching employees to pay \tn % Row Count 32 (+ 12) \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \vfill \columnbreak \begin{tabularx}{3.833cm}{x{1.68217 cm} x{1.75083 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{3.833cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Chapter 9 compensation (cont)}} \tn % Row 5 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} pricing jobs: job evaluation methods & systematic procedures to determine the relative worth or value of jobs (internal equity) \tn % Row Count 5 (+ 5) % Row 6 \SetRowColor{white} Skill Based pay & depth (gaining greater expertise in existing skills), breadth (increases in the employees range of skills), self management (gaining higher level managment-type skills) \tn % Row Count 14 (+ 9) % Row 7 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Fredrick herzberg - motivation/hygiene & motivator: meets intrinsic, higher level needs to be challenged and recognized. Hygiene: working conditions etc. enough to keep me from being dissatisfied \tn % Row Count 22 (+ 8) % Row 8 \SetRowColor{white} motivation: expectancy theory & expectancy (will my effort lead to high performance) x instrumentality (will performance lead to outcomes) x valence (do i find the outcomes desirable) \tn % Row Count 30 (+ 8) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{3.833cm}{x{1.44186 cm} x{1.99114 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{3.833cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Chapter 10 employee benefits}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Total rewards & direct financial payments (pay), Indirect financial payments (benefits) \tn % Row Count 4 (+ 4) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} role of benefits: society & reduce social problems, assistance for independent wage earners, deduction, financial security against illness, disability, retirement \tn % Row Count 10 (+ 6) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} role of benefits: employer & EVP, reduce fatigue, support productivity, discourage labour unrest, satisfy employees, lower OT \tn % Row Count 15 (+ 5) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} roles of benefits: employee & less expense and more options, lower taxes, primary objective - get benefits \tn % Row Count 19 (+ 4) % Row 4 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} categories of benefits & government-mandated (legally required), voluntary: retirement, employee services, health \tn % Row Count 23 (+ 4) % Row 5 \SetRowColor{white} Voluntary retirement benefits & defined contribution plan - benefits depend on the amount employees contribute to the plan, group registered retirement savings plan (RRSP)- employees contribute directly from pay which is matched by the employer, deferred profit sharing plan (DPSP) - certain amount of company profits are credits to employees account \tn % Row Count 37 (+ 14) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{3.833cm}{x{1.7165 cm} x{1.7165 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{3.833cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Chapter 11 employee relations}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Employee relations is impacted by.. & how human resource planning, placement, training and development, evaluation \& compensation is handled \tn % Row Count 6 (+ 6) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} impacted by… & policies on workplace and sexual harassment conflict resolution procedures, and employee involvement programs \tn % Row Count 12 (+ 6) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} five key dimensions of employee relations & employee involvement, employee communication, employee counselling, employee discipline, employee rights \tn % Row Count 18 (+ 6) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} Employee engagement - org justice & distributive: how rewards/costs shared by group, procedural: fairness of processes to make decisions, interactional: degree to which people are treated with dignity, respect and emotional support, informational: is the information used for decision making being shared fairly \tn % Row Count 32 (+ 14) \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \vfill \columnbreak \begin{tabularx}{3.833cm}{x{1.7165 cm} x{1.7165 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{3.833cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Chapter 11 employee relations (cont)}} \tn % Row 4 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} preventative discipline & action taken to encourage acceptable behaviour \tn % Row Count 3 (+ 3) % Row 5 \SetRowColor{white} non culpable & management is required to prove sub-par performance, provide feedback, and opportunities to correct behaviours \tn % Row Count 9 (+ 6) % Row 6 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} culpable & disobedience, dishonesty, insubordination, or misconduct. Insubordination is difficult to prove. Direct disregard to authority, refusal obey instructions, disrespect \tn % Row Count 18 (+ 9) % Row 7 \SetRowColor{white} culpable: progressive discipline & severity depends on the type of offence and the number of times offence has occurred \tn % Row Count 23 (+ 5) % Row 8 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} constructive dismissal & major change in the employment terms - significant change in job function, demotion, demand for an employees resignation, forced transfer \tn % Row Count 30 (+ 7) \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \vfill \columnbreak \begin{tabularx}{3.833cm}{x{1.7165 cm} x{1.7165 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{3.833cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Chapter 11 employee relations (cont)}} \tn % Row 9 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} the Wallace effect & decision of the Supreme Court in Wallace v united grain growers \tn % Row Count 4 (+ 4) % Row 10 \SetRowColor{white} wallce effect & resulted in the awarding of extended periods of notice in a number of wrongful dismissal cases where the employer acted in a callous manner \tn % Row Count 11 (+ 7) % Row 11 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} wallace effect & in the Honda Canada v Keats decision, addressed bad faith damages and restricted use of punitive damages \tn % Row Count 17 (+ 6) % Row 12 \SetRowColor{white} Employee assistance program (EAP) & comprehensive company program intended to help employees to overcome personal and work related problems. Online communications are increasingly being used to supplement EAP structures \tn % Row Count 27 (+ 10) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{3.833cm}{x{1.7165 cm} x{1.7165 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{3.833cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Chapter 12 health safety}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Assumption of risk & legal expression used by the courts, workers accepted customary risks, workers were to protect themselves from special hazards, scars were accepted as badges of honour \tn % Row Count 9 (+ 9) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} health hazards & physical agents (exposure to physical elements), biological agents (exposure to natural organisms), ergonomic related (caused by the work environment) \tn % Row Count 17 (+ 8) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} careless worker & early approach to safety in the workplace which assumed accidents were due to workers carelessness \tn % Row Count 22 (+ 5) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} shared responsibility & a newer approach to workplace safety that relies on the cooperation of the employer and employees \tn % Row Count 27 (+ 5) % Row 4 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} principal of joint responsibility & workers and employers must maintain a hazard free workplace \tn % Row Count 30 (+ 3) \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \vfill \columnbreak \begin{tabularx}{3.833cm}{x{1.7165 cm} x{1.7165 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{3.833cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Chapter 12 health safety (cont)}} \tn % Row 5 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} employer responsibilities & "due diligence" - taking every reasonable precaution \tn % Row Count 3 (+ 3) % Row 6 \SetRowColor{white} federal and provincial safety regulations & the right to know about hazards in the workplace, the right to participate in correcting hazards, the right to refuse dangerous work \tn % Row Count 10 (+ 7) % Row 7 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} employee responsibilities & take reasonable care, wear protective clothing, report breach of regulations \tn % Row Count 14 (+ 4) % Row 8 \SetRowColor{white} employee rights & know about workplace hazards, partipate in the OH\&S process, refuse work if they have "reasonable cause" to belive it is dangerous \tn % Row Count 21 (+ 7) % Row 9 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} hazardous products act & protects consumers regulates sale of dangerous products \tn % Row Count 24 (+ 3) % Row 10 \SetRowColor{white} workplace hazardous material info information system (WHMIS) & requires that employers provide training to enable employees to understand and recognize hazards, now includes hazardous products act \tn % Row Count 31 (+ 7) \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \vfill \columnbreak \begin{tabularx}{3.833cm}{x{1.7165 cm} x{1.7165 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{3.833cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Chapter 12 health safety (cont)}} \tn % Row 11 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} mental health & causes the Canadian economy about \$50 billion a year \tn % Row Count 3 (+ 3) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} % That's all folks \end{multicols*} \end{document}