Organisations with homogenous leadership teams will find the reasons for their lack of diversity further down their ranks if they dare to look, says an expert in the field.
Employers often ignore the "more strategically important" approach to building organisational capabilities in favour of developing employees' individual competencies, but it's time for this to change, a workforce planning expert stresses.
When an organisation has momentum it doesn't need "clever strategies" to attract talent, but losing it can be fatal, a business and culture specialist says.
Employers tend to forget they owe a special duty of care to employees suffering from non-work-related injuries, and dangerously overlook the need to make appropriate workplace adjustments, warns an injury management practitioner.
The fact employees must be "better off overall" under enterprise agreements doesn't preclude employers from negotiating "hugely beneficial" arrangements, according to a workplace law specialist.
An employer that faced nearly 200 discrimination and bullying complaints in a year found just 10 per cent were substantiated, according to its sustainability report. Meanwhile, the ABS has found nearly one in three employees regularly work from home; "worrying" productivity trends have prompted a national campaign; and more.
An employer breached its duty of care by allowing a manager to work excessive hours, while largely disregarding his health complaints, a court has ruled.
Intensive leadership development programs might seem cost effective, but they often fail to prove useful in the long term, HR Daily Community member Karen Schmidt says.
Any outsourcing or offshoring decision should trigger employers to consult with their workforce, regardless of whether redundancies will occur, according to a lawyer.
General protections claims are the fastest-growing category of applications in the Fair Work Commission, with reforms now underway to stem the tide. This webinar will discuss important developments in both procedural issues and case law.
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.
