Staff
With paid parental leave due to start in 2011, businesses need to help their female staff plan for their time off and help them come back to work afterwards. There is reason to believe that women really can have it all.
For many, work/life balance is an elusive dream. Australians increasingly find themselves extending their business day into their home life. Many blame the rise of mobile technologies but the truth is that any imbalances are not due to the tools at our disposal, but the way we use them.
We can negotiate well in our personal lives but we don’t always bring these key skills into the office. Good negotiating can be a powerful tool in the workplace. Here’s how you can use these skills.
For many companies travel expenditure will be a top five business overhead but a surprising number of businesses still allow staff to book their own travel on company credit cards or be reimbursed for their own travel expenses. This is the most expensive and difficult-to-control way of going about managing your travel budget.
Ever made an “inappropriate” remark in note form when going through the hiring process to help you remember which candidate was which? Well, those notes could come to haunt you if a candidate ever requested to see them. In case you didn’t know, candidates are allowed to ask to read them.
Hiring quality staff is a top priority for SMEs right now according to research released last week by DBM Consultants’ Business Financial Services Monitor.
While many of us can easily allocate times for meeting and teleconferences, most of us struggle to find the time to break for lunch or to prepare a healthy dinner. We’d all benefit from some top tips on incorporating good health into our work lives. Here we give you strategies for avoiding the health pitfalls in your typical working day.
Even the most successful businesspeople may find selling themselves to a prospective employer both uncomfortable and daunting. However, if you follow the below guidelines of: getting back to basics, putting the work into networking, following up and not giving up, then you will be on your way to your next great job.
A recession looms but there is still a demand for skilled workers. The quantity of job seekers has increased over the past six months, but the quality has failed to follow suit.
In times of economic uncertainty, workplace moral drops and stress increases. Employees become dissatisfied with their job and seek alternative career paths. New research commission by Citrix Online has found that a growing number of Australian workers are now willing to take a pay cut in order to be able to work from home, with many believing it provides a better work/life balance. So what are the benefits of working from home?
Retrenching then hiring new talent may seem like an attractive strategy in tough times but it has hidden costs. Retention can actually be a cheaper, more effective approach for surviving the recession.
The Australian economy has changed dramatically since the global economic crisis last year. Twelve months ago, Australian businesses were bemoaning the national skills crisis, today, they are more concerned with surviving the economic storm.
It may not be an employee’s market anymore but the way you treat your Gen Y staff today, will affect how they treat you tomorrow, when the recession’s over. As an employer, you should manage by individual, not generation.
Do your employees spend time internet shopping, playing online games or downloading pirated movies? Can you trust your staff on the net? For small businesses in Australia, the internet has changed behaviour in the workplace and created new challenges for managers. Kerri-Anne Turner explores the implications of web misuse for your business.
In times of economic uncertainty, workers are looking for their employers to show leadership. So what does it take to become a successful leader? There are 15 key characteristics that make a leader.
Morale is low and so are funds. So how do you keep your good staff happy without giving them a payrise?
Ever loved someone at an interview, only to find—a month into the job—that they were a big mistake? There’s no magic formula for hiring and sometimes you have to go with your gut. But here are some top tips for recruiting the right person for the job.
Picture this. You have two candidates who want the same job. They both have identical qualifications, similar work histories, and amazing attitudes. There’s only one point of difference. One of them could grace the front cover of Vogue, while the other is more suited to the cover of Death Metal Monthly. One of them makes you blush; the other could give you thrush. Who would you hire or promote?
The Eurovision Song Contest is by far the most amazing and exciting night of the year. And amongst all that razzle-dazzle are dazzling lessons for managers, especially within the two songs that won the competition as well as the two that should have won.
A growing numbers of Australian businesses are coming under threat as poor redundancy strategies have led to an increase in the poaching of organisations’ remaining talent. In such a climate of instability, employees are becoming increasingly concerned about job security, leaving them open to being head hunted from competitor organisations. Chandler Macleod Group (CMG) has […]
