Category: Strategic HR

The Productivity Commission’s Interim Report on Building a Skilled and Adaptable Workforce presents four notable opportunities for HR practitioners.
New data suggests employers could be in for a swathe of resignations in the latter half of 2025. Here’s how HR can help businesses intervene before it’s too late.
By co-designing a shared cultural operating system, this Chief People Officer aligned 900 people around a common language and purpose – while preserving each team’s unique identity.
How can HR practitioners best demonstrate the impact of their work and position themselves as enterprise-wide, commercial leaders? A seasoned Chief People Officer shares her advice.
You don’t need an MBA to speak the language of the boardroom. Use this glossary to decode key business terms and reframe your work in a language that resonates with the C-suite.
An effective HR business partner can boost performance by up to 22 per cent. How can HRBPs maximise their impact and bridge the gap between HR strategies and broader business goals?
A digital-first wellbeing strategy can help frontline employees engage with resources on their own terms, whether it’s mental health support, financial guidance or physical health tools.
Direct HR involvement can lift productivity by 11 per cent, finds new research. But before these gains can be realised, we need to get clear on what employee productivity actually looks like.
To celebrate this year’s International HR Day, HRM spoke to C-suite executives to explore HR’s impact and how practitioners’ influence is transforming decision-making and driving sustainable progress in their organisations.
Preventing underpayments requires more than a functional payroll system – it’s about joining the dots between people, payroll and processes.
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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

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.