driving return on investment through people
Systems thinking can help HR in seeing an organisation as a system that is sustained by how well its parts are aligned to the same purposes – and avoid organisational change false starts in the process, writes Dave Hanna Cedric was the maintenance chief in a manufacturing plant’s five-day operation that […]
A successful combination of employee engagement, active leadership and investing in employee training have been critical to improving DHL’s organisational culture, according to Linda Clinch, VP HR for DHL Express Oceania. She explained that the underlying foundation for building a great workplace where employees feel valued and inspired to do […]
Medibank’s leaders play a critical role in driving sustainable performance through encouraging and enabling employees to “bring their whole self to work”, which in turn increases engagement, boosts discretionary effort and drives productivity, according to its head of HR. Leadership plays a “huge role” in this process, according to Medibank’s […]
HR will be the ‘rulemakers’ for augmented people-decision making in the world of analytics, algorithms and machine learning, and a chief HR data scientist can provide the leadership, guidance, governance and credibility to ensure HR practitioners don’t inadvertently play god with people’s lives, writes Rob Scott I recently met an aspirant extraterrestrial. A […]
When it comes to successfully leading change, a more inclusive 6-step approach will yield better results for leaders, writes Anthony Mitchell In 1996, John Kotter published his well-known and influential work, Leading Change, which TIME magazine selected in 2011 as one of the 25 most influential business management books ever written. While […]
