An employer has been sentenced and fined nearly $380k after it failed to address workplace psychosocial health risks. Meanwhile employees' perceptions of organisational culture have reached a low point.
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Loneliness is an issue that organisations tend to overlook, despite it deeply affecting employees' performance and underlying HR costs, a workplace researcher says.
The employee who seems the most compassionate and considerate member of a team is sometimes the most manipulative, warns a lawyer who is observing certain behaviours on the rise.
An "adaptive challenge" should have enough "heat" to motivate, mobilise and engage a leader, but not so much it overwhelms them, according to a leadership expert.
Senior leaders and HR managers in the Productivity Commission will undergo trauma-informed and victim-centred response training, after a review revealed a "permissive" workplace culture where allegations of s-xual harassment and s-xism are minimised and inadequately investigated.
The less time employees spend absorbing behavioural expectations by "osmosis" in the office, the more intentional organisations have to be about reinforcing them, and "culture coaches" are a potential solution, an expert says.
An independent review into PwC Australia's practices has revealed an overly "collegial culture" and a disproportionate focus on revenue, leading to "shadow sides" of its culture, where aberrant behaviours went unchecked.
