Are Your HR Processes Damaging Employee Engagement?

Are your HR processes damaging employee engagement? In summary: HR processes, policies and procedures directly affect employee engagement. Overly strict policies, ineffective performance management systems, and a lack of professional development opportunities are just some of the things that can make employees feel undervalued and demotivated. HR and leadership need to create employee-centred HR strategies … Read more

Fostering Financial Literacy in the Workplace for Success

Most organizations invest heavily in training their employees with the skills required to be effective and successful in their roles. However, in today’s modern workplace, equipping employees with the know-how they need to make informed decisions regarding various aspects of their financial lives is often neglected.  This encompasses both work-related benefits such as understanding how … Read more

‘My career was not a straight line’: CHRO at University of Queensland

And on top that, UQ relaunched a new leadership capability framework program and has a gender equality action plan in place. “We’ve got strategies that we’re working on to further reduce the university’s gender pay gap,” Vaughan said. “That’s been incrementally decreasing year on year but we’re continuing to look to see how we can … Read more

‘More urgent than ever’: Demand for moral leadership at all-time high

The findings come as 71% of the respondents agree that strong moral leadership is needed in tackling the crises their workplaces face. “What we found is that in this extraordinary moment where we, collectively, are facing so many simultaneous crises, moral leadership has evolved from a worthy pursuit to a critical survival skill,” said Dov … Read more

‘Mental health support is the number one most-asked-for area of support’

“We know that employees look at their employer in the first instance for support. And so employers are actually being proactive and saying, ‘How can we help?’” The most asked for area of support From Virgin Pulse’s surveys internally, and through the industry, it has found that “mental health support is the number one most … Read more

‘Deliberate wrongdoing’: Din Tai Fung, executives fined $4 million for underpaying employees

Among the executives fined by the Federal Court is the former HR coordinator of DTF World Square, Sinthiana Parmenas, who was fined $105,084. The other executive involved is Hannah Handoko, former general manager of DTF World Square, who was fined $92,232. Justice Anna Katzmann said they “deliberately deprived the employees of their legislated entitlements and … Read more

‘Don’t wait for legislation’: Employers told to be proactive in addressing psychosocial risks

“If we look at it from a frontline perspective, as our employees are burned out, that means they’re less engaged, they’re less able to service those customers, and therefore as a result, that has an impact on genuine revenue,” he said. When it comes to the social element, Ahmadzai said burnout can hit social interactions … Read more