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"No one likes their HR person. Not even you. You may have been popular in college, but not anymore. To them, you are the person they need to suck up to in order to keep their jobs. No. One. Likes. HR..."

Companies today are not effectively executing against strategy and the business leaders know it - with 80 per cent recognising they are not doing their best to communicate strategy throughout the organisation, let alone execute against it...

If employers and their staff don't have a clear understanding of what bullying is, or can't distinguish it from other behaviours, they risk "playing host to the boy who cried wolf", warn bullying experts Dr Carlo Caponecchia and Dr Anne Wyatt.

Employers that determine the value of a role according to its place in the business strategy - and target HR initiatives accordingly - are more likely to be successful than those whose business and human capital and strategies are "out of synch", says WRDI Institute director Colin Beames.

Transfer-of-business provisions introduced by the Fair Work Act have the potential to make life very difficult for HR managers, but if employers plan ahead, associated costs and complications can be avoided, says Hicksons partner Brad Swebeck.

New research has uncovered the core capabilities that companies require to lift their levels of employee engagement.

In tough coaching situations where the employee's view of themselves and others is out of whack, you've got to tell the truth...

Here's an interesting five- minute exercise you can do next time a manager complains that you focus too much on team building or recruiting properly or on improving staff retention...

A leadership program that helps managers and teams to overcome the "intangible barrier" of unconscious bias is a fundamental component of National Australia Bank's gender-equity strategy, says its head of group diversity and inclusion Neil Cockroft.

Conflict between staff, if left unchecked, tends to escalate - but most managers have a natural inclination to dismiss it, says Workplace Conflict Resolution director Catherine Gillespie.