Focusing on mental health outcomes has helped build managers' and employees' engagement with LGBTI-inclusion efforts at Lendlease, its diversity specialists say.
Reports of shortening attention spans may be overstated, but workplace learning still faces new challenges when it comes to engaging employees, says an expert in the field.
Organisations put significantly less effort into pleasing their employees compared to their customers, but applying similar principles across both groups creates a "huge" opportunity to better recruit, engage and retain staff, a leadership expert says.
One of the most important things a leader can do is create a safe space for employees to report failures without fearing the consequences, says the CEO credited with bringing Ford back from the brink of bankruptcy.
The Department of Industry, Innovation and Science has recorded an improvement in leadership and management behaviours following a gamification pilot, and plans to roll out the project more broadly.
Employers might benefit from HR professionals being more "brutally honest" with managers about how they're perceived at work, a leadership consultant says.
Performance-driven work cultures require a three-tiered approach to be successful, but leaders tend to focus most on the least important aspect, according to an HR analyst.
Employee complaints about being overlooked for roles in favour of external talent has led global tech firm Oracle to add a team of internal recruiters who just target existing staff.
Following the closure of its manufacturing facilities last October, GM Holden has amped up its focus on flexibility and inclusion, with an immediate impact on attracting female job applicants, according to its head of HR.
General protections claims are the fastest-growing category of applications in the Fair Work Commission, with reforms now underway to stem the tide. This webinar will discuss important developments in both procedural issues and case law.
