Category: Strategic HR

With management quality and effectiveness vital to employee wellbeing, productivity, loyalty and job satisfaction, what can HR do to ensure managers lead their teams effectively?
By embracing new ways of working and optimising technology investment, leaders can ensure that their businesses prosper during periods of instability – and beyond.
By harnessing the power of automation, HR teams can free up time to focus on meaningful, value-adding tasks. However, to avoid dehumanising the employee experience, it’s important to leave certain HR tasks in the hands of people.
How can HR professionals facilitate a flexible environment that helps ‘sandwich generation’ employees manage their personal and professional obligations?
Recent research has identified a trend of retirees reentering the workforce, a phenomenon economists have dubbed the ‘Great Unretirement’. Here’s how one Aussie organisation has nailed down its strategy for recruiting and supporting older workers.
Organisational structures have traditionally focussed on empowering employees to work exclusively in their specialist role – but this may no longer be the most sensible approach for organisations wishing to maximise their capacity and boost productivity.
In line with new federal legislation, HR has an important role to play in ensuring that uneven parental leave is no longer a major contributor to the gender pay gap.
Learning and development (L&D) teams need to evolve to match the quality of learning material available outside of work. Here’s what HR can do to help organisations get there.
To get a board or executive team to back your ideas, you need to become a master at selling them. Here’s how to boost your persuasion skills and get your ideas over the line.
Now is an ideal time for CHROs and CPOs to think about how they can contribute as a CEO. Although, to be seriously considered, ensure you are equipped with these four ‘must-have’ skills.
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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

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.
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.