{"id":1292,"date":"2010-02-08T13:58:07","date_gmt":"2010-02-08T18:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brocknews\/?p=1292"},"modified":"2010-02-08T14:00:25","modified_gmt":"2010-02-08T19:00:25","slug":"professor-awarded-for-her-work-in-human-resources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2010\/02\/professor-awarded-for-her-work-in-human-resources\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor awarded for her work in human resources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Brock business professor has received a top award for her research and contributions to human resources.<\/p>\n<p>Deborah Zinni, associate professor of Human Resources Management, was awarded the Right Management HR Academic of the Year Award at the annual Human Resources Summit Awards on Jan. 26.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1293\" style=\"width: 298px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1293\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1293 \" title=\"zinniweb\" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/zinniweb.jpg\" alt=\"zinniweb\" width=\"288\" height=\"162\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1293\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Deborah Zinni<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Zinni is chair of Organizational Behaviour, Human Resources, Entrepreneurship and Ethics and first got involved in human resources as an employee more than 30 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI found I really had a knack for it in terms of organizing things and being able to deal with employees,\u201d she said. \u201cI like the way that HR systems work together with management systems to help organizations reach their goals.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Over the past 25 years, she has sat on numerous committees at the Human Resources Professionals Association (HRPA). She is also past president of the Toronto West Human Resources Professional Chapter, and twice a year, helps students prepare for their national certification sponsored by the Canadian Council of Human Resources Association.<\/p>\n<p>Since becoming a professor in 2002, her research interests have included union participation, the unionization of graduate students and the retention of Aboriginal employees. Most recently she has authored several papers on the volunteerism of older workers in healthcare. She has authored several textbooks, and increased the number of students studying Human Resources at Brock by working with her colleagues to develop the undergraduate MBA and MSc graduate programs.<\/p>\n<p>The award, Zinni said, makes her feel honoured to be following in the footsteps of human resources professionals she respects.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m very honoured to get that award,\u201d she said. \u201cThere are a lot of other deserving people as well who do a lot to help the profession.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Zinni\u2019s favourite part of teaching, however, is the students.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI really, really enjoy seeing students succeed. I just love when they leave here and are working in the field and I get an email from them telling me about how they\u2019re doing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The HR Summit Awards are presented by the HRPA and the Canadian HR Reporter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students and research are high points for Deborah Zinni, who was named Academic of the Year at the HR Summit Awards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1293,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,1],"tags":[3327],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1292"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1292"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1295,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1292\/revisions\/1295"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}