HR practitioners can help to diagnose ethical problems and develop strategies to overcome them, but they cannot build an ethics-first culture on their own. The post An HR leader’s guide to nurturing an ethics-first culture appeared first on HRM online ..read more

Dulux’s Executive General Manager of People, Culture and Change, Siobhan McHale, offers practical advice to help HR practitioners lead impactful culture change in their organisations in line with broader business objectives. When organisations are faced with crippling, complex and seemingly unsolvable culture challenges, they often put sole responsibility on the HR team to ‘fix’ the problem. But this rarely works because you can’t outsource culture to a single function in the business – it needs to be deeply embedded into all of your business practices. HR practitioners aren’t the keepers ..read more

To avoid defaulting to solution mode or asking the wrong questions and missing a core piece of information as a result, leaders should use a mix of different question types. Most people have heard a version of the saying ‘good leaders ask good questions’. It’s less common, however, to think about asking a good mix of different types of questions. “When you read about this in management literature, you get insights like, ‘Good questions are follow-up questions or open-questions, but [leaders need] a little more guidance than that,”  says Arnaud Chevallier, strategy professor at IMD Busines ..read more

While employee surveys can be a useful tool to identify health and safety hazards, acting on survey findings necessitates a considered and well-rounded approach. Employee surveys, also known as pulse or culture surveys, can often serve as an early warning system for employers. They reveal work health and safety risks that an employer may not otherwise know about before it’s too late.  Conducted anonymously, and often by an external organisation, these surveys can uncover a range of issues, from physical safety hazards due to inadequate equipment, to intangible hazards like the psychologic ..read more

To grow high-performing teams, organisations need to prioritise relationships, ensure regular debriefs and allow time for recovery, says sports psychologist Dr Pippa Grange. When sports psychologist, culture coach and author Dr Pippa Grange was recently tasked with helping a tense team navigate a high-stress acquisition discussion, she intervened with a surprising activity. “I took them trampolining. Everybody said it was ridiculous, but within 10 minutes they were all laughing. It broke the tension and helped them regain perspective,” says Grange, who is a keynote speaker at AHRI’s upcoming N ..read more

In a world of work where change is the only constant, how can employers ensure they are cultivating the right skills to future-proof their workforces? Fifty-four years ago, best-selling American futurist Alvin Toffler wrote: “The illiterate of the twenty-first century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn and relearn.” Today, his prediction seems remarkably prophetic. The skills landscape employers are facing in Australia and globally is dynamic, unpredictable and rife with opportunity. According to the World Economic Forum (WEF), the average half-lif ..read more

The new Same Job, Same Pay legislation has been put to the test for the first time in a recent case heard by the FWC. How might this decision impact employers engaging labour hire workers? The Fair Work Commission (FWC) has made its first ruling under the new Same Job, Same Pay framework, after finding that the labour hire workers employed by a Queensland coal mine performed essentially the same work under the same conditions as the mine’s permanent employees. As a result, more than 300 labour hire workers servicing the mine are set to receive pay increases of up to $20,000 per year as of Nove ..read more

About the opportunity Are you passionate about HR data and telling a story? Do you like to generate insights from data? Do you like to make data easy to interpret from a user perspective? Do you have a learning mindset? Then this is the role for you! As the Workforce Data Analyst, you will: Extract, collate, analyse, visualise, and interpret a broad scope of HR data from multiple sources including surveys and polls, form submissions, the HRMIS (Aurion), and other HR systems. Assist with the building and maintenance of dashboards within CASA’s data visualisation tool, One Model, to portray key ..read more

Whether you’re an experienced professional or just starting out in your HR journey, AHRI has a short course that will help take your career to the next level. We’ve even got options for non-HR professionals. If you want to become a more effective leader, HR professional or manager, AHRI has a training opportunity for you. Explore short courses now. The post Elevate your career with AHRI’s short courses. appeared first on HRM online ..read more

Global future of work thought leader Ravin Jesuthasan walks HR through some practical frameworks and ideas to prepare their organisations for the future. In an era of rapid technological advancement, with the demand for certain skills rising and others becoming obsolete, preparing for the future of work requires foresight and adaptability.  In this episode, Ravin Jesuthasan, global thought leader and Senior Partner and Global Leader for Transformation Services at Mercer, talks about how HR practitioners can navigate the evolving skills landscape and prepare their organisations and employe ..read more