Leadership quality is one of the biggest risk factors for a toxic work environment, and there are often leading indicators that can be addressed before cultures become psychologically unsafe, according to a behavioural scientist.
A conversation about a person's mental health isn't "an HR thing", it's "a management thing", and one way to ensure those conversations build trust is by taking a gender-sensitive approach, a men's health specialist says.
Reframing workplace psychosocial hazards as an industrial relations area would help organisations improve their risk mitigation and management, researchers say.
"Micro coaching moments" are among the ways progressive HR functions are combatting managers' fear of giving performance feedback, according to an experienced consultant.
Controversial reforms aiming to "stabilise" the NSW workers' compensation scheme will instead "radically reduce" employees' psychological injury rights, according to critics of the proposals.
An employee had "untenable" expectations for workplace adjustments, the Fair Work Commission has found, given she hadn't disclosed a psychological condition to her employer.
The busy nature of HR roles means most teams rarely debrief between stressful events, but making time to do so in a structured way has multiple benefits, according to a conflict specialist.
It's natural for managers to have "some confusion and fear" about delivering performance feedback, and employers have more work to do in reframing workplace views about psychological safety, a specialist advisor says.
Genuine concerns about an employee's mental health warranted directing her to undergo an independent medical examination, and her repeated failure to attend provided a lawful and valid reason for her dismissal, a tribunal has ruled.
Costly legal disputes continue to highlight the many risks employers face when managing, disciplining, or dismissing employees while they are absent, injured or incapacitated. Attend this webinar for an up-to-date review of the legal framework applying to workplace absenteeism, injury and incapacity, and lessons from recent case law.
