Australian employees have flagged a serious increase in disengagement and intentions to leave their employer, new research shows. Also in this article: the FWO has cleared Uber of employing its drivers.
Organisations will only become more agile and innovative if employees' full spectrum of emotions is allowed to occur at work, a world-renowned psychologist says.
Onboarding programs should ideally run for six months, but most employers still don't put in much effort beyond induction, says an HR author and career coach.
Obsessively passionate employees are often mistaken for high performers, but they actually have impaired performance, along with poorer wellbeing and increased emotional exhaustion, research suggests.
Employers have substantially lifted their game on LGBTI inclusion in the past year, and the top-performing organisations are no longer just banks and professional services firms, results of the Australian Workplace Equality Index show.
A higher proportion of employees will receive a pay rise this year compared to last, according to the latest Hays salary survey. Also in this article: employees lack belonging at work; public holiday shiftwork dispute resolved; and more.
HR's role must shift back from a compliance focus to performance and coaching if organisations expect to develop emotional intelligence in their workforce, a cultural change and EI specialist says.
Australia continues to lag behind the US when it comes to adopting recruitment technologies. ATC director Trevor Vas comments on the most surprising areas, and where the biggest opportunities lie. Another expert warns that the window for playing "catchup" is rapidly closing.
A new jurisdiction to deal with underpayments will be established if Labor wins the election on Saturday, opposition leader Bill Shorten has announced. Meanwhile, the major parties have revealed where they stand on workplace diversity; new-hire pay rates have increased slightly; and more.
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