By Brad Power - HBR.org Many organizations suffer from a tragic pattern: The chief executive officer launches a new change program with great fanfare and intentions, only to shelve it a few years later with little to show for great expenditures of time and consulting fees....
By Liz Royle - personneltoday.com Employees who experience distressing incidents at work may develop feelings that prevent them from returning to the scene. Employers can take steps to minimise the post-traumatic impact of such events. Many employees are at risk of experiencing a traumatic event at work, such...
By XpertHR - personneltoday.com If, following a thorough investigation and a fair disciplinary hearing, an employer concludes that disciplinary action is needed, it should ensure that its decision on what sanction to impose is fair and reasonable in the circumstances. Once the employer has come to...
By Corey L. Jamison For many, the status quo is a comfortable place to live, to work, and to be safe. Policies, processes, ways of interacting are familiar, and people are invested in them. Routines are easily followed and don’t require a lot of thought. And...
A lot is now made of global economic developments. We live and die by the latest interest rate announcements, job figures and trade numbers, not only from Australia, but most other countries in the world. We have become preoccupied by headlines and sound bites and...
By Lisa Quast - forbes.com Managers are bombarded with an almost constant stream of data every day. According to David Derbyshire, “Scientists have worked out exactly how much data is sent to a typical person in the course of a year – the equivalent of every...
Management Training Australia (www.mtaustralia.com) conducts training and development programs for all levels of management in organisations throughout Australia and Asia-Pacific. The culture set by an organisation and the climate set by each team in the organisation drives the performance of the organisation. About 70% of work...
By Sajjad Masud - mashable.com Sajjad Masud is the co-founder and CEO of Simplicant, a cloud-based social recruiting platform that is transforming talent acquisition and making enterprise-level recruiting technology accessible to companies of all sizes. Connect with Sajjad and the Simplicant team on Twitter, Facebook and...
By Peter Shreeve - hrmagazine.co.uk It’s 2022. As the HR director of a large corporate you are writing your HR strategy for the next year and you begin by reflecting on the last 10-15 years of change. Since the economic crisis of 2008 demand for goods and...
By David Woods - hrmagazine.co.uk Another day, another taxi, another HR exhibition – and all the paraphernalia that goes with it. As an HR professional, it wouldn’t be unheard of to make a career out of attending exhibitions, meeting suppliers and taking away their pens, mouse...