Whole Team Working from Home? How Leaders Can Help With Productivity and Morale During a Pandemic
We are amidst the most unsettling and unpredictable global crisis that the majority of us have ever seen. With Government officials, medical professionals, and virtually everyone on Twitter telling us to #stayhome, those of us who can work from home, are, and businesses are having to adapt to managing an entire team of remote workers […]
Coronavirus: HR has a Real Dilemma on Their Hands
The last two weeks have seen some Australians going into a real buying frenzy of essential items from toilet paper, canned food to pasta. There’s even reports of employees going to the lengths of stealing toilet paper supplies. What has the world come to? There is a real ‘Armageddon’ feel about this. A Canadian doctor […]
If a 4 Day Work Week is Better for Employees and Businesses Alike, is it Unethical to Push to 5?
The case for the four day work week is having a shift in momentum. A topic that not long ago was met with a scoff and an eye-rolling nod to millennial entitlement is being taken increasingly seriously, with former nay-sayers coming around to the idea that less really could be more. In 2018, a New […]
Can your HR communication strategies cope with major disasters?
The devastating impact of the bushfires across Australia will be felt for a long time to come, as Governments and other organisations now address the tasks of assisting people and communities to recover and review the causes and consequences of the fires. For HR practitioners, among the challenges were to maintain contact with employees and […]
How to Build a More Effective Board of Directors
The primary mission of any board of directors is, of course, to equip the CEO and the organisation in general for success. But too often, dysfunction inside the boardroom jeopardises the organisation’s productivity and output and causes the board to become stagnant, antagonistic or both. It’s easy to spot when a board is dysfunctional, but […]
Work smarter in 2020, not harder
Managers want productive employees, but micro-management and work pressure is not the solution, according to a University of NSW professor. We need to stop believing people need to work harder to be productive and instead think about how we can work smarter, says Associate Dean of Research, Professor Frederik Anseel. “How can we make sure […]
