What would happen at your organisation if you and an employee parted ways and they then decided one year, two years, three years later that they wanted to come back?
Employers often make the mistake of treating their workplace culture aspirations differently from their more concrete goals, says rogenSi director Jim Robertson.
Employers should focus on the needs of their business when hiring and developing staff, but individual workers will invariably influence the "shape" of their role over time, says Hewitt principal and head of HR consulting, Jason White.
Sexual harassment is "incredibly widespread" in the Australian workforce - but the majority of cases are preventable, says Learning Seat general manager Tim Legge.
Creating a new business culture following a merger and acquisition requires "pace over perfection" and a willingness to make some mistakes, says Bupa Australia's director of HR, Penny Lovett.
Onboarding, like comedy, is about bridging the gap between the unknown and the familiar. The sooner the crowd likes, relates and trusts you, the sooner everyone can relax and have a good time...
Employers that face dubious flexible work requests can ask workers for evidence of authenticity, and should flag their "discretionary right" to do so in their policies, says Mills Oakley lawyer Luke Connolly.
Priming particular workers for particular leadership roles is a risky business, but developing a pool of workers with "adaptive leadership capacity" makes strategic sense, says the University of Western Sydney's Beryl Hesketh.
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.