#Employee Relations
How modelling good behaviour is good for business
As leaders, we want our businesses’ to be healthy and successful, but for it to be so we need our people to be healthy and successful as well. Here’s how to model good behaviours in your organisation.
Why your employees are lying to you
Honesty may be the best policy, but there are some cases in which employees feel compelled to feed you lies. Here’s how to avoid them.
Harmony Day kicks off to promote diversity in the workplace
Businesses around the country are celebrating Harmony Day today, an event designed to eliminate racial discrimination in the workplace and promote diversity by breaking down cultural barriers
Young entrepreneur, older employees: How to cope
Being a young business owner with much older employees to supervise can be awkward. Or not. It depends on how you handle the situation.
Workplace bullying worse in businesses lacking leadership: study
Employees that witness workplace bullying are just as likely to be impacted by it as those who are bullied, with such behaviour occurring most commonly in businesses with less constructive leadership.
How to keep your good staff
Staff retention is not an exact science and different employees will respond to different incentives. But losing good staff is sometimes a reality and that’s where succession planning is key.
All effective management is one-on-one
Brett Morris blogs about the most effective means of managing employees. “In a frenetic business environment, managers are easily pulled every which way. Couple this time pressure with a lack of management maturity and too often managers fall into the fatal trap of attempting to manage their people as a group.”
Gen Y not difficult, Baby Boomers problematic in the workplace
Managers find Gen Y staff easier to work with than the challenge of Baby Boomers, according to research conducted by Leadership Management Australasia (LMA).
Managing employee – customer relations
Scientist and author Dr John Fleming shares his views on getting the most out of the employee-customer encounter. “Quality” is easy to measure and manage in some contexts, and extremely difficult in others. Businesspeople have a pretty good idea how to judge the manufacturing process that yields a snazzy new handheld device, for example. But […]