Budgets might be tight, but managers looking to retain their top talent and maintain morale should continue to reward deserving workers, according to Kelly Services MD James Bowmer, and they can do it on the cheap.
Employers are ramping up their alumni programs in a bid to maintain good relationships and maximise prospects for re-hiring staff that might lose their jobs during the downturn.
Maintaining employee interest and participation in a health and wellbeing program is one of the HR manager's greatest challenges, and key to ensuring not only the success of the individual program but the viability - in the board's eyes - of similar future initiatives.
HR managers can build happy, productive teams and save big bucks on recruitment in the process simply by determining the work preferences of individual employees, according to management consultant, Dick McCann.
The majority of middle managers in Australia feel that the informal feedback they receive from their employer is more valuable than formal reviews, a survey has found.
HR managers should put in place strategies to encourage "passively engaged" or "flight risk" employees to share in the company's visions and goals, rather than investing in the small proportion of workers who don't want to be there at all, Westpac's strategy and metrics manager says.
Replacing employee commissions with team bonuses and implementing "Ten Commandments" has pushed employee engagement through the roof at online learning company Learning Seat, says its chief executive officer.
High individual and team morale - or a positive "work team climate" - underpinned by supportive, balanced leadership, is the key to preventing workplace-related psychological injuries, according to Health Service Australia's director of psychology, Dr Peter Cotton.
Employers that fail to retain employees beyond their graduate recruitment program and promote them into management roles are not achieving a reasonable return on their investment, according to Onetest CEO, Steven Dahl.
Recent events have shone a spotlight on whistleblowing, placing employers firmly on notice that their response to a protected disclosure could be subject to intense scrutiny. Watch this webcast to understand the role HR plays in this challenging space.
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