Category: Strategic HR

By creating a 15 per cent buffer in our lives, we can reclaim a day each week for rest, recovery and better adaptability to disruptions.
Complaining at work often gets a bad rap, but actively listening to workers’ grievances can serve as a hugely valuable tool for leaders to improve the overall employee experience. Here are four types of complaining HR might come across at work.
Being a line manager is a lot tougher than it used to be. Here’s how HR can help line managers deal with their increased responsibilities.
Less than half of Australians trust the use of generative AI at work, finds research. What role does HR play in bringing this technology out of the shadows and helping organisations use it to their advantage?
With the referendum on the Indigenous Voice to Parliament on the horizon, HR could soon find their workplaces abuzz with political opinions. An employment law expert outlines some things to keep in mind.
In a disrupted world of work, people leaders risk falling behind. Lucy Adams explains how HR can catch up through a new, agile approach.
When we talk about performance management, we tend to focus on dealing with employees who are not meeting expectations. But what about your best performers?
Keith Ferrazzi says by embracing radical adaptability, high-return practices and crisis-agile responses, HR can help to introduce new and effective ways of working to boost innovation, productivity and business resilience.
Craig Foster’s time as a leader in the #savehakeem campaign contains important lessons on the power of public and private advocacy, and on the ways they interact.
An Australian HR consultancy has added its first AI employee, ‘Xai’, to the organisational chart. But it needed to put guardrails in place in order for Xai to work cohesively with their human colleagues.
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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

An employee was recently awarded over $36,000 by the Fair Work Commission due to flaws in her employer’s workplace investigation process. What can HR learn from this decision?
Several recent cases heard by the Fair Work Commission (FWC) suggest verbal agreements in the workplace can carry more legal weight than some employers realise.
In a climate where diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives are under scrutiny, how can HR help ensure their organisation’s gender equality targets stay on track?
Social media may be considered part of the workplace for politicians, finds NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal (NCAT). Where can HR draw the line in terms of their legal obligations around an employee’s online activity?