Category: Health, wellbeing and safety

Whether it’s delivering unwelcome news or balancing competing priorities, workplace decisions can sometimes create internal conflict. Here’s how cognitive dissonance influences our behaviour at work, and how HR can help turn it into a catalyst for reflection and growth.
Research shows a leader’s personal wellbeing can predict organisational outcomes. A wellbeing expert explains how to make the case for leader wellbeing as a business imperative. 
The panel responds to the escalating performance management challenge, providing useful insight into how HR can balance the board’s commercial priorities with psychosocial safety.
Tight budgets and the rising cost of living are making remuneration conversations more complex. Use this visual guide to help managers navigate them with confidence.
In AHRI’s new video series, The Game Plan, HR leaders tackle an unfolding scenario in real-time, cutting straight to the heart of a common challenge in modern people management.
New data from 9600+ leaders reveals a decade of unbroken decline among employed professionals. Here’s what HR practitioners can do about it.
Here’s what else might be going on, and why the distinction matters more than you think.
With job demands increasingly coming under legal scrutiny, here’s how to assess whether a role has become unsustainable, causing it to become a psychosocial risk – and how to respond when employees raise workload concerns.
Workplace ostracism can be subtle and easy to overlook, but failing to address it could put employers in breach of their psychosocial safety obligations. Use these tips to identify and control exclusionary behaviours before they cause harm.
When can underperformance constitute misconduct? And how much should an employee’s personal circumstances be taken into account?
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HOW TO

A HR practitioner offers a range of thought-provoking questions to help you plan your next career move.
Keep these tips in mind to ensure your organisation’s probation periods go beyond being a tick-box exercise and become a driver of strong culture and high performance.
From building your case in advance to avoiding the trap of false politeness, use these strategies to help you engage in constructive dissent at the executive level.

LEGAL

A case currently before the Federal Circuit Court highlights the dangers of cutthroat, “win at all costs” work cultures. But where do courts draw the line between a competitive culture and a psychosocially unsafe work environment?
Ahead of a report into the latest Closing Loopholes legislation, we ask an expert lawyer to explain the casual conversion rules in their current form.
NSW has significantly raised the legal stakes for workplace health and safety compliance, including the management of psychosocial risks. Here’s what the changes mean in practice, and their implications for employers across Australia.
The new financial year will bring changes to pay, superannuation, parental leave, psychosocial risk management and more. Here’s what these changes will mean in practice for HR.