Tag: Workforce

Australia’s organisations are facing a leadership crisis, according to a management consultant who claims mediocrity prevails because too few businesses cultivate the necessary behaviours in the people they promote. Speaking to Dynamic Business, Anthony Mitchell, co-founder of strategic advisory firm Bendelta, provided a frank assessment of organisational leadership in Australia. He also highlighted the leadership […]

While Australian SME exporters continue to win contracts against global competitors, many find it difficult to access the finance they need to secure these opportunities.

Despite a rise in total employment, which rose to 11,145,000 in the year to February, Roy Morgan’s latest employment estimates reveal a decrease in Australia’s overall workforce.

Currently one in every five serious workplace-related injuries involves a tradesman.

Surveys consistently show business leaders can also see the management of flexible working arrangements as a negative, and are reluctant to employ mature workers and mothers returning to the workforce.

A worryingly high section of the workforce don’t don’t feel as if they have enough energy to go to work each day.

An increase to the retirement age may herald good news for small and medium sized business owners as the government moves to raise the pension age to 70.

The myth goes that regional Australia loses its best and brightest to the cities – yet, that’s simply not so.

Australian company Shamic Sheetmetal in Victoria has cut wage costs after installing a Finn-Power Night Train FMS ‘ lights out’ robotic manufacturing system.

Many businesses are currently being faced with the need to reassess their resources, including considerations of restructuring and reducing their workforce. With redundancies being felt across the country, employers need to know their legal obligations.