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Employees are more likely to stay engaged at work if they have regular career conversations, but these talks rarely happen, says a report that highlights two vital roles HR professionals can play in ensuring they occur.

Organisations perform better when their senior leaders don't espouse the same values as the work culture, according to researchers.

When teams are underperforming it's most often because they don't recognise the misalignment between what they intend to achieve and what they're actually doing, business anthropologists and academics have found.

An employer has been ordered to reinstate a worker it sacked for poor performance three weeks before he was due to receive a $150k redundancy payout.

Employers do not have to put up with a support person who is "overtly interventionist" during a disciplinary meeting, HR Daily Community member Shane Koelmeyer says in referring to a recent Fair Work Commission decision.

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Demand for soft skills in younger workers is dramatically increasing, but they are failing to keep up, a major report shows. Meanwhile, an inquiry has highlighted the cultural issues that can promote workplace bullying; technology is decreasing face-to-face interactions; the AFP says cybercriminals are targeting HR payroll systems; and more.

Discussions of a s-xual nature "have no place at work", the Fair Work Commission has ruled in finding an employee was fairly sacked for asking a colleague at work if she'd had an abortion.

Organisations are largely failing to develop leaders through all four levels of learning competence, resulting in a widespread state of "broken leadership", a professional development expert says.

An organisation that recruited three employees for a total cost of $650 through its own social media campaign has outlined how employers can use social platforms to cheaply attract talent.