Category: Strategic HR
With unemployment up, productivity growth slowing and talent thin on the ground, business leaders are searching for the secret to future success. The solution, many believe, lies with HR.
HR professionals are in an influential position to shape and champion a more sustainable approach to business operations.
Recent research shows 64 per cent of employees feel their work environments don’t empower them to perform at their best. To achieve optimal performance in a hybrid world, it’s crucial that workplace design evolves alongside our working habits.
Ambiguity tolerance is a skill that can equip an organisation to perform and thrive in dynamic and volatile environments.
The amount of change businesses need to manage each year is increasing. At the same time, employees’ willingness to embrace change is waning.
Collaborative decision-making can be a powerful tool, but leaders should take care to ensure teams are engaging in critical thinking and not succumbing to groupthink.
AI has captured attention for its generative language and imagery, but its greatest benefit to HR may be more far-reaching. Learning how to leverage AI in unique ways can further position HR as organisational enablers.
From rushing the process to failing to consider transferable skills, here are some common hiring mistakes and steps you can take to avoid them.
Australian leaders are more optimistic about artificial intelligence at work than their global counterparts, according to a recent report. However, employee concerns about AI still pose obstacles to innovation. How can HR help build a more AI-positive culture?
Recent research reveals that within a 12-month period, half of candidates have accepted a job offer and then backed out at the last minute. How can recruiters avoid falling victim to this concerning trend?
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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.
