FedEx Express Australia fills the majority of its management roles through internal promotion, and attributes the success of its leaders to development programs offered before they are promoted, according to Australasian managing director, Kim Garner.
True leaders are rare among today's executives, but the best ones know when to coach and when to counsel their team members to better performance, according to Stephenson Mansell Group executive chair, Virginia Mansell.
The number of Australian workplaces reporting talent shortages has declined for the third year in a row, but still remains well above the global average, according to ManpowerGroup's annual survey.
Special programs aimed at retaining top performers could be obsolete, according to a study of more than 3000 exit interviews, which found these employees leave mostly for the same reasons as everybody else.
Finance, health and technology giant GE has reduced the role HR generalists play in its recruitment process, after deciding they were too heavily involved.
A new concept in leadership - "rewardingness" - can help determine a leader's influence and the success or otherwise of their business unit, according to a social scientist.
Australia Post has cut by half the number of people it hires externally, using a strategy that identifies and builds on the skills already within its organisation, says the company's head of recruitment and transition, Rebecca Houghton.
'Put the customer first' is an outdated adage, says St George Bank chief executive officer George Frazis. Instead, any organisation that really wants to please its customers will put its own people first.
There's a high chance the investment your company is making in high-potential employees is simply grooming them for the competition, according to talent expert Eugene Burke.
Faced with a shrinking talent pool, Konica Minolta has gone back to basics and launched its own trainee program, targeting people of all ages without tertiary qualifications.
