Category: Featured
- Employee engagement, Featured, Section, Strategic HR
A recent report from Gallup has highlighted the significant economic impact of employee disengagement. By making simple changes to management behaviours, HR can turn this challenge into an opportunity for growth.
- Employee wellbeing, Featured, mental health, Section
Lack of clarity and communication is one of the biggest barriers to psychosocial safety. Promoting shared accountability and eliminating ‘blame culture’ could be the solution.
- Featured, Learning and development, Section, Strategic HR
A recent survey shows that time is the #1 barrier to learning. Industry experts offer actionable insights for addressing this issue, highlighting why learning is an investment we should bank on.
- Employee wellbeing, Featured, How to's, Section
By baking experimentation into work, redefining accomplishments and changing the way we plan for the day, we can have a positive impact on employees’ motivation levels.
- Featured, Legal, Section
A mechanic who suffered an out-of-work injury has been granted damages after his employer’s “clumsy” handling of his return to work. Here are HR’s key takeaways from this case.
- Enterprise bargaining, Featured, Industrial relations, Legal, Section
Criminalising wage theft and industrial manslaughter, and stronger protections for gig economy workers. Here are the big-ticket items in the government’s Closing Loopholes Bill.
- Diversity and Inclusion, Featured, Section
Pregnancy and parental discrimination remains a critical concern in Australia, new research has found. How can HR help to create a more inclusive environment for new and soon-to-be parents?
- Featured, Section, Strategic HR, Workforce planning
The government has released the 2023 Intergenerational Report, which paints a picture of what Australia might look like in 40 years’ time.
- Discrimination, Diversity and Inclusion, Featured, Section
There’s a 15 per cent gender gap in the uptake of flexible work. We need to shift the narrative that flexible work is just for women, as plenty of men are seeking – and would benefit from – working reduced hours.
- Artificial Intelligence, Featured, Section, Strategic HR, Technology
Recent research has found that most global organisations are considering a ban on ChatGPT and other generative AI platforms at work. However, employee sentiment checks indicate that this might not be the wisest move.
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- Featured, How to's, Trusted partnership
A HR practitioner offers a range of thought-provoking questions to help you plan your next career move.
- Featured, How to's, Section, Talent management
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.
- Featured, How to's, Section, Trusted partnership
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
- Featured, Legal, Organisational enablement
Workplace investigations are meant to resolve harm, but they’re increasingly becoming a potential source of it. With courts beginning to hold employers accountable for psychosocial risks created during the investigation process itself, two work health and safety lawyers outline key issues for HR to consider.
- Featured, Legal, Strategic HR, Workforce Effectiveness
AI is helping workers research, build and articulate workplace complaints with legal precision – and employers are scrambling to keep up.
- Featured, Legal, Organisational enablement
Almost one million Australians now hold more than one job. But what if an employee’s second job interferes with their work or their employer’s interests? Here are two FWC cases that clarify how far employers can go to restrict secondary employment.
- Featured, Legal, Trusted partnership
With the minimum wage and award increases fast approaching, here’s how HR can help their organisations to assess their options.
