Australian businesses are in "a really risky situation at the moment", with new research showing the leading indicators of employee experience are stagnating or declining.
Australian employers raised median base salaries by 4% for existing employees in 2023, and in 2024 they're expecting to do the same, major remuneration research shows.
One-way mentoring tends to be unsustainable, but reciprocal mentoring relationships can make both parties feel valued, increase empathy, and enhance psychosocial safety, a new book says.
Providing employees with clear role responsibilities and resources can prevent workplace conflict, while fostering altruism can mitigate its intensity when it does arise, new research has found.
The single most impactful thing hybrid leaders can do is to create "glue" in workplaces, by "sticking together, bonding and fusing talented people", a leadership expert says.
"Coworker quality" has recently become a much more important driver for employees making decisions about leaving and joining organisations, new research shows.
An employer has been sentenced and fined nearly $380k after it failed to address workplace psychosocial health risks. Meanwhile employees' perceptions of organisational culture have reached a low point.
Women are taking three-times as long as men to reach senior leadership roles, but most current initiatives to change this are misdirected, according to "profound" new research.
Senior leaders and HR managers in the Productivity Commission will undergo trauma-informed and victim-centred response training, after a review revealed a "permissive" workplace culture where allegations of s-xual harassment and s-xism are minimised and inadequately investigated.
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