Enhanced obligations around psychosocial safety should be prompting employers to "pressure test" their approach to mental health and wellbeing, says the leader of an organisation awarded for excellence in these areas.
If leaders habitually delegate management issues to HR, their people will soon lose respect for them, warns a consultant who says leaders shouldn't just set standards, but more actively enforce them too.
Too many organisations remain focused on measuring engagement scores, without considering the individual elements that contribute to that number, according to a culture expert.
Celebrating milestones is an important retention strategy at FedEx Australia, where more than half of the 5,000-strong workforce have been employed for at least 10 years.
Employers are overlooking some simple ways to make their recruitment processes more accessible to marginalised candidates, according to representatives from four different organisations.
Investing in staff development can be a two-edged sword when it creates employees who are actively headhunted, but a CPO says the balance weighs in favour of turning high performers into future brand advocates.
Commonwealth Bank Australia is in the early stages of "dynamic passive listening", to improve its people experience to the point where it's in the top 10% globally, a conference has heard.
A five-step framework is helping to minimise the gap between employees' desire to be heard and employers' action on their feedback, says a business psychologist.
BHP has measured the impact of improving candidate experience on employee engagement and productivity, finding it could add "literally hundreds of millions of dollars of shareholder value", a conference has heard.
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