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How Herbert Smith Freehills built a culture of collaboration

Collaboration has played a central role in the merger and ongoing commercial success of Herbert Smith Freehills, with a holistic and focused strategy for helping drive collaborative behaviours and outcomes across the firm, according to its local head of HR. In the lead-up to the merger of Australia-based Freehills and UK-based Herbert Smith, both firms…

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Why is culture such a hot issue for business and HR leaders?

Culture can be one of the most powerful tools for business success, writes Josh Bersin Based on a spike in lookups on the Merriam-Webster dictionary website, “culture” emerged as the most popular word of 2014. Now it is popping up in corporate boardrooms globally – alongside employee engagement and retention – as a top issue…

Why culture matters to business – an article by Inside HR

Why culture matters to business – an article by Inside HR

Paying attention to culture does matter to the business, because it is a company’s culture that fuels the dominant drivers of share price today, writes Dave Hanna Organisational culture is a topic that continues to polarise the corporate world. My definition of culture is very simply “the way we do things around here”. And that…

Why HR needs to be the leadership culture caretaker

A strong focus on talent management has been critical to the growth of Carnival Australia, according to its head of HR, who said that the business is very particular about bringing in the right resources from both a technical and behavioural perspective. “I’d stress the behavioural aspect of this – because our business is people-based,…

Where can corporate culture and national cultures meet?

Where can corporate culture and national cultures meet?

Integrating local values into your company’s corporate culture is crucial to strategic success in a global marketplace, writes Dave Hanna As more and more companies expand their reach across today’s global marketplace, many of them are coming face to face with the differences between their corporate culture (“how we do things here”) and the national…

Vulnerability: What is the next step-change in leadership and culture?

Leaders who have learned to be vulnerable have a stronger impact on people and business results. What is a vulnerable leader? It is a leader who has accepted that she does not have all the answers – and more importantly, that she must not have all the answers all the time, writes  Jerome Parisse-Brassens. I…

How ResMed drives innovation through the right culture fit

How ResMed drives innovation through the right culture fit

Employing and retaining the right people is critical to the process of innovation within ResMed, according to its global CHRO, Richie McHale, who said there are certain values it looks for in employees which are important to creating a successful environment within the business. “We hold our employees to high standards of ethics and creativity,…

Why HR needs to stop with safety cultures and design safety experiences

In future-focused organisations, people and culture leaders are beginning to play a more active role in delivering safety outcomes, according to Jen Jackson, who says this change involves a significant shift from the way many businesses currently approach the concept of safety culture It’s a familiar sight: a boardroom filled with well-intentioned senior leaders fixated…

2 questions HR needs to answer when it comes to regulators and culture

2 questions HR needs to answer when it comes to regulators and culture

There are two important questions HR needs to answer in averting – or potentially responding to – regulator intervention on organisational culture problems, writes Jerome Parisse-Brassens On the back of recent cultural disasters linked to the widespread display of inappropriate behaviours (think Wells Fargo and the creation of loan and credit accounts for customers who…