Workplace teams are meant to pool the individual abilities of employees to tackle challenges, but often end up simply comprising a supervisor trying to get a silent team to produce, according to management consultant and author Stewart Liff.
A worker accused of sleeping on the job has been awarded $15,500 after a court found her employer had not closely followed the three-strike disciplinary procedure of its enterprise agreement.
Australians are working harder than ever to keep their organisations going through tough times, often doing unrecognised and unrewarded work, but the resulting presenteeism might be doing more damage than good, according to leadership expert Andrew Henderson.
There's a high chance the investment your company is making in high-potential employees is simply grooming them for the competition, according to talent expert Eugene Burke.
The HR profession is letting itself down by failing to take a stand against the broken, bureaucratic and wasteful process that is performance management, says a managing partner at PwC.
Too often leaders are focused on themselves and what they can achieve, but the best leaders engage in "collective leadership" - creating more leaders and bringing out collective creative capacity, says Roma Gaster, director of The Leadership Circle, Asia Pacific.
Clarity of purpose, the freedom to have robust conversations, and accountability form the DNA of high-performing teams, according to consultancy Proteus Leadership.
There are some notable opponents to the overuse of financial incentives at work, but according to reward expert Jairus Ashworth, the business case for pay-for-performance schemes is clear.
Many organisations are still using factory-era techniques to manage motivation, but these old tools fail to inspire and support creativity, collaboration and agility, according to author and motivation expert Dr Jason Fox.
Employees should be taught to "never, ever, wait for feedback", according to performance expert Jamie Resker, who says workers should supplement performance reviews and conversations with "self-driven feedback" from colleagues and clients.
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