Driving return on investment through people
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 […]
There are two important steps companies need to follow in order to genuinely stimulate creativity on an organisation-wide basis and drive innovation for the purposes of hard competitive advantage, according to author, speaker and international advisor Ken Robinson. A lot of organisations struggle with the process of cultivating creativity, and […]
Diverse teams have the potential to deliver far greater performance than homogeneous teams, however, a number of measures must first be in place to improve communication and a number of other key factors, according to an expert in cross-cultural communication. Diverse teams possess multiple perspectives and can deliver greater innovation and […]
There is no silver bullet to recruiting the perfect candidate, according to industry veteran Andrew Banks, who explained that companies should adopt a process akin to a 100 point-check in order to improve talent acquisition success. While the process of recruiting the right people is far from a perfect science, […]
