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An employee would have been better off admitting to workplace misconduct as a "brain fart" instead of denying he ever engaged in it, the Fair Work Commission has ruled, finding he was fairly sacked for vandalising client property.

Bad leadership is a critical problem right now, but it is partly due to an increasingly complex work environment, rather than "bad people", a workplace specialist says.

An employer's decision to retrench an HR consultant was an "egregious example of the unfair exercise of managerial prerogative", the Fair Work Commission has found, while criticising its HR leaders for their "disrespect".

Recognition for frontline staff "doesn't need to be tied up with bureaucracy", according to a chief people leader now embarking on a major transformation and EVP project.

Leaders can't afford not to have regular one-on-one check-ins with their employees, and HR professionals play a crucial role in selling the value of these conversations, a communications specialist says.

Poor attendance at work and refusing to correct behaviour wasn't "sufficiently serious" to warrant a manager's dismissal, the Fair Work Commission has ruled in awarding him 16 weeks' compensation.

An employee wasn't "taken by surprise" when told he'd failed a performance review, a commission has ruled, finding his deficiencies were "well documented" and his employer's processes were reasonable.

The challenge of accurately measuring people-related practices remains a significant hurdle for organisations, and new research suggests the risk of basing strategic decisions on faulty data has driven some executives to ask, 'why bother?'.

In sacking a worker for 'underperformance', an employer wrongly relied upon contractual terms that had no "force or effect", the Fair Work Commission has ruled.

Only about 5% of employers are operating at best-practice levels when it comes to supporting employees affected by domestic violence, a workplace wellness specialist says.