Tag: Staff Management

It’s time for one of your employees to move on, so now’s the perfect time to learn about the business’ strengths and weaknesses in a candid exit interview.

For many employees, performance appraisals are associated with ineffective practice and unwanted events. Here are some ideas on how you can improve the quality and outcomes of your performance and development conversations with your people.

We’ve all heard the rhetoric: ‘the union want this’ and ‘the union said that’, but the fundamental point that HR, media and some employers have forgotten is that the union isn’t made up of officials. It’s not the lady in the office that processes new membership applications. It’s the employees.

Having good relationships with your clients is critical to overall business success, making it important that everyone you’re directly associated with sees you as a ‘people person.’ Despite this, being too nice can lead to low productivity and smaller profits.

Ian Daniel blogs about the OH&S considerations managers of a mobile workforce need to be aware of.

“Over recent years, responsibility for fleet safety has shifted from drivers to organisations and even individual managers – making this a growing issue for Australian businesses.”

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

Arndria Seymour blogs about how to engage Generation Y through learning and development.

“Generation Y are the ‘connect me to everything’ learners. The ability to give them connection and meaning, search and explore or make it fun/entertain me is how they learn best.”

The most valuable aspect of any business is its staff, and with statistics indicating that Australia’s SME sector employs up to 40 percent of the nation’s workforce, it is essential to understand the importance and significance HR can have in generating and maintaining business success. Bill Gates was once quoted as saying: “Take away my […]