Category: Strategic HR
Brenda Hawke spent her early career in major organisations, pushing boundaries and executing change, but it was a mammoth shift in her personal life that enabled her to see where she could make the biggest difference.
Neuroscience tells us that building trust requires leaders to invest in employees, redefine failure and champion shared accountability.
Employers who intentionally underpay staff (including superannuation) could soon face criminal sanctions. Here’s what else HR needs to know about the Closing Loopholes Bill.
In order to build high-performance teams and ensure productivity gains, organisations need to prioritise stability, trust and ‘letting go’. Here’s how HR can help.
With 2024 just around the corner, business leaders are gearing up for yet another year of profound change. Here are five key workforce trends that could shape the new year, and advice for HR on how to prepare. As the countdown to the new year commences, business and HR leaders are bracing themselves for new…
By leveraging AI to design a streamlined, ‘hyper-personalised’ candidate interface, the talent acquisition team at KPMG has reduced time to hire by 20 per cent – and reduced employee turnover in the process.
Workplace distractions are costing employers thousands of hours in lost productivity, found a recent report. What are employees’ biggest distractions, and how can HR help teams regain their focus?
Most organisations are calling for employees to return to the physical workspace for at least three days per week, new research from the Australian HR Institute into flexible and hybrid work has found
With the goal of retaining talent, this HR professional saw an opportunity to rejuvenate her organisation’s rewards strategy.
Measuring the impact of employee wellbeing and inclusion strategies is as challenging as it is essential. Four wellbeing experts offer tips for HR to measure what matters.
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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.
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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.
AI is helping workers research, build and articulate workplace complaints with legal precision – and employers are scrambling to keep up.
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.
With the minimum wage and award increases fast approaching, here’s how HR can help their organisations to assess their options.
