Organisations with outstanding talent-management practices outperform their counterparts by eight times total shareholder return, yet only one in five employers treat talent management processes as seriously as their annual budgeting process, research by the Hay Group has found.
In spite of the fact that it makes for easy days, it's not a good thing if a stream of disappointments and failed battles have beaten employees into submission. This kind of acceptance isn't conducive to great work or great success...
HR has to make sure they have done their homework where performance management is concerned and then communicate that linkage in a way that is understandable to management...
Organisations that fail to adapt to advancing technology will be "buffeted by the forces of change" and, ultimately, left behind, says author and futurist Ross Dawson.
Whether a manager will persevere with a business relationship in the face of adversity can be predicted by examining three key conditions that will influence their behaviour, according to research from Amsterdam's VU University.
Recent court rulings involving employees' social media "indiscretions" provide some guidance, but not certainty, for employers and workers, says employment lawyer Lisa Berton.
The Fair Work Act has many benefits for employers and workers alike, but its bargaining provisions - which are yet to be fully tested - could prove controversial, says ACCI chief executive Peter Anderson.
"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.
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.
