Tag: Employee Relations

How Australia’s new sexual harassment legislation will affect your 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.

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.

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

Being a young business owner with much older employees to supervise can be awkward. Or not. It depends on how you handle the situation.

When it comes to cross cultural training it’s a case of ‘Diplomats do it, aid workers do it…’ but many people in the corporate sector feel that it doesn’t apply to them.

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.

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.

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.”

Managers find Gen Y staff easier to work with than the challenge of Baby Boomers, according to research conducted by Leadership Management Australasia (LMA).