A director showed "reckless disregard" for an employee when he engaged in predatory conduct "for his own wanton gratification", and must now pay her $176k in damages and costs.
HR professionals are accustomed to helping others build leadership capability, but new research into the reasons they're quitting suggests it's time to "look inward".
Even if certain negative behaviours were "manifestations" of an employee's autism spectrum disorder, they weren't a substantial and operative reason for her dismissal, the Fair Work Commission has ruled.
Poor leadership is a top contributing factor to moral injury, an expert says, in setting out risk minimisation strategies for this little-understood phenomenon.
An employee who had been absent for more than two years before resigning has failed to convince the Fair Work Commission he was forced out by a pattern of "sustained psychological abuse, structural mismanagement [and] coercion".
Organisations that hold their people accountable are more likely to sustain revenue growth, but accountability should be driven by leaders, not HR, new research suggests.
After an inaugural survey revealed how much its people "wanted to have a say", an employer has won an award for its culture and achieved significant lifts in key engagement metrics.
A senior HR business partner's "patently false", "unsubstantiated" and at times "misogynistic" claims have undermined his unfair dismissal case, the Fair Work Commission has chastised.
