Driving return on investment through people
Israel Folau’s dismissal has recently dominated news headlines, and there are important lessons for leaders and HR in the concept and practice of employees bring their whole self to work, writes Murray Priestman Israel Folau’s recent dismissal as a result of his provocative tweets has generated a fierce and polarising debate. […]
Workplace romances will occur regardless of steps taken by employers to quell them and employers need to consider what measures can and should be introduced to protect their business, writes Amy Zhang According to Relationships Australia, 40 per cent of people in the 35 to 50 age group met their […]
A key element of the ALP industrial relations platform is to ‘reduce the incidence of insecure work’ – but this could restrict business’ ability to develop and utilise innovative ways of working, write Kirsty Faichen and Wendy Fauvel A key element of the ALP industrial relations platform is to ‘reduce the incidence […]
Given that people are bound up with intangibles, this is one domain in which HR could and should be the experts – and thereby add great value and leadership to business partners, writes Dave Hanna Over the past 50 years a subtle revolution has been in motion that changes how we […]
Management jargon is the enemy of strategic clarity, according to Peter Fuda, who says there are four key questions that need to be answered in order to determine your deepest aspirations The key issue we face in defining shared aspirations is not a lack of ambition, or even strategic clarity, […]
Views around executive potential and development are changing, and meta-learning can play a valuable role in helping executives become more aware and better learners, writes Anthony Mitchell Meta-learning is important because leaders cannot succeed simply by relying on the capabilities they’ve developed in their past. They must be willing and […]
An increased focus on corporate social responsibility as well as organisational change management, driven mostly by technological and workforce changes, is contributing to growing demand for certain human resources skills, according to a recent report. It found that the Australian human resources workforce is forecast to experience sound growth over […]
Getting the senior leadership team on board has been critical to transforming a toxic workplace culture at Shape Group, which has in turn improved the company’s business performance and lifted safety performance, profit, employee engagement and customer satisfaction levels. There is a hard link between positive workplace culture and positive […]
