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The Industrial Adjustment Service: A Canadian Model for Change Management

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Nineteen sixty-three was one of those “Very Important Years” in North America. Canadians elected a minority Liberal government under Lester B. Pearson. Twenty years later, with only a brief interruption, Liberals still ruled Ottawa. The first bombs of the FLQ exploded in Montreal. René Lévesque called for a “new Canada” in five years, or Quebec would separate. The Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism was appointed.

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Butcher, J. (1991). The Industrial Adjustment Service: A Canadian Model for Change Management. In: Niehaus, R.J., Price, K.F. (eds) Bottom Line Results from Strategic Human Resource Planning. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-9539-4_15

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