Human resources

In achieving financially sustainable results, boards and senior leaders must ensure the means are both ethical and prudent. Creating a desirable workplace culture takes both a ‘top-down’ and…

Effective and clear corporate governance practices can be critical when selling your business, raising capital and arranging financing.  This article examines simple but effective steps businesses…

The Full Bench of the Fair Work Commission has recently handed down a series of decisions which expand an employee’s rights to request flexible working arrangements. On 20 November 2018, the Full…

There is increasing scrutiny on board competence, yet paradoxically, there is reluctance to invest in board development. There is a need to identify and codify the developmental maturity level of a…

A fearless culture is the result of a cumulative focus of leaders across the organisation, led and modelled by those at the top. A fearless culture is based on asking questions, being clear on…

Recent data shows an increase in government employees self-referring for mental health support. Government jobs are prone to organisational change which acts as a stressor. This article provides…

To effectively lead change and make it stick, leaders need to first understand themselves. The more power a person feels the more confident they are of the accuracy of their thoughts and…

Steps you should take to improve your mediation experience? Early successful mediation avoids potentially substantial and crippling litigation costs. Document the settlement agreement before the…

Strategic projects are a means of increasing the leverage that senior leaders get from an engaged team. Senior leaders must create an environment where strategic projects are viewed as an…

Rogue employees are rare, but they devastate their organisations. Motivations vary but are important to understand from a risk perspective. Building a mix of preventative and detective controls…

The failure to inculcate trust with peers and team members leads to project delays and underperformance. Rebuilding trust takes more effort, time and resources than establishing it. Organisational…

There is renewed public awareness of the incidence of sexual harassment in the workplace as a result of the #MeToo and #TIMESUP movements, In Australia, sexual harassment in the workplace has a…

Zilla Efrat speaks with Andrew Charlton about an increasingly automated workforce and how directors need to know the right questions to ask their executives.

There are commonly held employment law misconceptions. This article dispels the Top 7 employment myths Warning — this article may contain surprises!

Digital transformation over the past decade has created new roles and titles to respond to the exponential growth of data and to manage the arising risks and opportunities. This article examine the…

In response to elevated complexity and reduced stability, the idea of resilience at the individual, organisational and community levels has become popular. Organisational resilience definitions…

When it comes to boards exercising supervision over workforce issues, their role is much broader than just in respect of safety. Many workplaces comprise different categories of employees as well…

Employers must not unreasonably refuse a request made by an employee to be assisted by a support person at any discussions relating to dismissal. However, employers may in certain circumstances…