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The Centre for Gender Equity is rolling out a new "diagnostic tool" that will rate workplaces on their underlying attitudes towards women.

The number of Australian workplaces reporting talent shortages has declined for the third year in a row, but still remains well above the global average, according to ManpowerGroup's annual survey.

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HR professionals should foster a developmental culture within workplaces that allows each staff member to form a web of "rigorously informal" mentoring relationships, according to research by American academics Wendy Murphy and Kathy Kram.

Many of the difficulties employees face at work - from information overload to tensions between co-workers - can be eased with mindfulness training, according to workplace consultancy The Potential Project.

HR professionals specialising in organisational design and change management will be in demand over the next six months, according to the latest half-yearly Robert Walters HR market update, which finds large companies are seeking talent to help with significant transformation programs.

Special programs aimed at retaining top performers could be obsolete, according to a study of more than 3000 exit interviews, which found these employees leave mostly for the same reasons as everybody else.

Evolving from reporting on HR data to analysing it requires a lot of effort for little return, but it is the key hurdle businesses must overcome to create a data-driven HR function, says global talent management expert Josh Bersin.

Understanding the informal networks that exist in an organisation can help HR avoid potentially damaging decisions, and mobilise key influencers during times of change, according to teamwork and leadership expert, Dr Hilary Armstrong.

'Hidden demographics' among employees can provide more useful insights into how to create an effective rewards scheme than those most commonly used, according to EY partners Rohan Connors and Richard Kantor.