Taking a systematic approach to workplace conflict management Conflict Management System Design (CMSD) enables organisations to proactively review the way conflict arises and improve how it is handled in the workplace. Consider this analogy. Rather than simply recommend paracetamol for a persistent headache, a good doctor will likely take your blood pressure, enquire about your […]
Monash University has committed to implement all the recommendations of Worklogic’s review into its sexual harassment and sexual assault policies. The review was commissioned as a part of Monash University’s comprehensive response to the AHRC ‘Change the Course’ Report recommendations. “Monash University was already significantly advanced in their efforts to prevent and address sexual assault and harassment […]
As many of you know, I am a big fan of using news events to extract lessons for the local workplace. Every week, a public figure will do something unhappily noteworthy that provides for great debate! As once again we reach the end of the year, we look back to see what 2018 has offered […]
In this edition, Senior Investigator, Tom Henry explains the key lessons for employers from recent appeals and FWC cases relating to procedural fairness and an employer’s duty of care when conducting an investigation, taking action on offensive private social media posts by employees and the need for employers to act on complaints in inappropriate behaviour, regardless of how […]
Paradoxically, 2016 was the year that started with Lieutenant General (retired) David Morrison being awarded the prestigious title of Australian of the Year. His firm stand on gender diversity and LGBTI inclusion and dedication to confronting discrimination and harassment in the Army has been a powerful demonstration of principled leadership that has influenced with wider […]
2015 has been another interesting and challenging year for Australian employers. Increased economic instability, global currency shifts and another change in the leadership of the land have confirmed the old adage that the only thing that is constant is change. Indeed, leadership, and what we expect of our leaders, has been a question much in […]
Managers handle multitude of daily challenges – budgets, product quality, sales performance, stakeholder relationships. The true test of a manager’s mettle, however, is dealing with difficult employee issues. Many managers lack confidence when it comes to dealing with underperformance. Some prefer to ignore chronic underperformer, letting them drag down the team’s results, de-motivate their colleagues […]
Despite Australia’s bounceback from the global financial crisis, everywhere we go, Worklogic’s clients tell us about the challenges they face in the current economic environment. Trading conditions, retail spending and commodity prices have fallen, meanwhile wage increases and the high Australian dollar squeeze businesses’ profit margins. Just in the last few weeks, significant business contraction […]
“Either…this was in effect a cover-up, or you weren’t told, or you didn’t read your emails properly, and there is a failure of governance within the company. Do you accept that?” Sound familiar? Barrister Robert Jay QC asked James Murdoch this question in the Leveson Inquiry into the culture and ethics of the press this […]
Take a look around your workplace, or if you are reading this article on public transport have a look at your fellow travellers. As many as one in five Australians experience a mental illness every year. The chances are you probably already know someone with a mental illness. In recent years public awareness of issues […]