Effective talent management involves thinking more than two years ahead, aligning talent strategies with the organisation's long-term goals, and holding executives to account, according to a new study from Hewitt and the Human Capital Institute.
Employers appear to be taking a passive, "wait-and-see" approach to staffing, with hiring intentions at their lowest levels for eight years, according to the CEO of Hudson Australia/New Zealand, Mark Steyn.
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.
HR managers will place greater emphasis on enhancing employee performance and restructuring over the next 12 months, but retention and staff development remain the top priority, according to a major survey.
HR professionals can improve the performance of first-time managers by developing their emotional intelligence, says consulting organisational psychologist, Miles Knickerbocker.
Businesses demanding more from their HR function should hire professionals who are "credible activists" and "have attitude", according to an international study.
Widespread ignorance within the HR industry about what constitutes "HR excellence" is largely to blame for its descent into a credibility crisis, according to a leading business academic.
There is one evidence-based concept that HR practitioners should embrace and apply to "make a real difference" in their organisation in the next 12 months, according to eminent HR academic Dr Roger Collins.
Women in Australia continue to face barriers to their involvement at board level and are under-valued as non-executive directors, according to a new report that says the "fundamental" deficiency is failing to train, develop and mentor women early in their careers.
Inflexible, over-prescriptive and outmoded HR practices are limiting the ability of TAFEs to recruit the best staff and ensure those staff continue to perform, according to an in-depth study of HR management in Australia's training organisations.
