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An organisation that offers new employees a $500 cash incentive for leaving the company within three months is reporting a higher level of engagement overall as a result.

A health initiative that won over workers with the slogan, "How to lose weight and drink beer", and brought management on board with stats that created "a sense of urgency", has helped a blue-collar workforce to reduce its absenteeism, presenteeism, and injury rates.

As the Fair Work Commission's anti-bullying regime starts to take shape, an industrial barrister has compiled a list of 13 issues employers should consider when preparing to defend a claim.

Using a structure that separates hiring teams into "front" and "back" office services creates more strategic recruitment functions, while also reducing hiring costs and improving efficiency, says internal staffing specialist Trevor Vas.

Five simple questions can help leaders bring out untapped strengths in their teams and get more discretionary effort from people, say executive coaches and positive psychology experts Margaret Greenberg and Senia Maymin.

A fundraising trek with a leadership development focus has helped senior employees at Goodman Group become more strategic and inclusive, while raising money for charity, according to participant Samantha Evans.

The end of any contracting arrangement heralds a heightened risk of employee entitlement claims, but those involving unpaid superannuation are particularly hard to defend and costly to address, according to PwC partner Rohan Geddes.

Different time zones, isolated workers and productivity concerns can all be turned from challenges to advantages with some creative thinking, a conference heard this week.

The most important thing a leader can do to stimulate the creativity needed for a new project is to believe that anything is possible, and help their team to do the same, says Opera Australia artistic director Lyndon Terracini.

A call centre employer has reduced its staff turnover and absenteeism by more than 30 per cent in just six months - and doubled its engagement score - following a major culture overhaul driven primarily by employees.