Most employers have rolled out training and policies to address psychosocial risks, but managers are now feeling the extra burden of driving behavioural change, a conflict specialist warns.
Only 55% of KPMG employees say they can sustain the level of energy they need to do their work, the company has revealed among other key findings in its latest impact report.
Treating psychosocial safety as a problem to be solved is itself problematic, according to an expert who says leaders need to feel safe themselves to cultivate safety.
Work can be "as addictive as drugs or alcohol", but workaholism isn't receiving enough attention as a psychosocial health issue to manage, according to an occupational psychologist.
A regulator has found two employers failed in their duty to minimise or eliminate workplace psychosocial risks, after one introduced a new performance management system without proper consultation, and the other placed excessive and ongoing work demands on its staff.
Managers are now noticeably more reluctant to take action that might pose a psychosocial hazard, but holding back can create a "much worse" problem, a workplace lawyer warns.
Employers' psychosocial risk obligations represent a "new dawn" for HR, where this area can no longer be viewed as a workplace health and safety issue. Watch this webcast to understand how psychosocial risks intersect with almost every aspect of employment law and people management.
Here you'll find links to all resources relevant to HR Daily's 'Workplace bullying – case law and risks update' webinar, presented on 28 June by Henry William Lawyers senior associate Renee Kasbarian.
Recent changes to psychosocial risk management require extra attention to three big areas, but so far two are being somewhat overlooked, according to a workplace lawyer.
An employee has failed to convince the Fair Work Commission that he didn't deserve to be dismissed because his numerous Facebook friend requests and unsolicited messages to a young female colleague were actually from his seven-year-old son.
