Category: Strategic HR
While there are some global trends at play, certain factors unique to Australia – including shifting demographics and lifestyle expectations – are likely shape the workforce of tomorrow, says demographer and futurist Bernard Salt AM.
How can HR leaders help businesses to not only embrace new ways of working, but pioneer them? Speakers at day one of AHRI’s National Convention and Exhibition share their thoughts.
For HR leaders, having a solid working relationship with senior management or the executive in your organisation is critical. Being able to work together as a ‘united front’ is often the key to progressing important HR and organisational matters.
From setting failure goals and budgets to offering awards for the ‘best failed idea’, organisations will need to build psychologically safe environments in order to benefit from experimentation.
HR practitioners have all the right ingredients to become impactful culture leaders and champion meaningful work, and legendary business thinker Seth Godin has the recipe for them to follow.
By understanding the characteristics of quality decision-making and taking steps to build more decisive cultures, HR can actively contribute to progress and performance.
To avoid defaulting to solution mode or asking the wrong questions and missing a core piece of information as a result, leaders should use a mix of different question types.
AHRI’s updated Australian HR Capability Framework has been created to help HR practitioners identify the key skills they’ll need to become well-rounded, strategic practitioners.
Global future of work thought leader Ravin Jesuthasan walks HR through some practical frameworks and ideas to prepare their organisations for the future.
Employing this five-step design thinking framework can help HR practitioners craft empathetic, innovative and aligned strategies.
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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.
