You may have read a story reported in the newspapers on 29 January this year[1] about a distressed young man on a platform at Caulfield Railway Station, Melbourne, shouting “I want to die”, and apparently at risk of throwing himself onto the tracks. It was reported that the vast majority of about 40 onlookers took […]
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 […]
So often when we are called in to investigate allegations of misconduct in an organisation we find employees who are disillusioned with and do not trust the behaviour of senior management. No matter how good your policies, no matter how clear the organisation’s values, they will be diluted or rendered meaningless if your management and […]
At Worklogic we enjoy working with our clients to help them resolve a variety of workplace issues. This sort of HR “trouble shooting” often raises some interesting and bespoke challenges that might be of interest to others. So in 2015 we have decided to share some of these queries (the names and identities of those […]
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 […]
Organisations such as Google are renowned for their strong workplace culture. Many articles and even movies have been dedicated to its open workspaces, collaborative approach to decision-making and active encouragement of innovation and cooperation. Can organisations create culture or does it just evolve? In this article, we discuss the importance of culture in organisations and […]
Historically, employment relationships were based on the right to control that a “master” held over their “servant”. Thankfully we no longer describe the relationship in those terms and while an employee continues to have a duty to obey the reasonable and lawful directions of their employer, increasingly, courts are recognizing the mutuality of obligations between […]
From romantic comedies to self help books like “Men are from Mars women are from Venus”, the challenges of communication between men and women have received a lot of coverage. Whilst misunderstandings and different approaches are the stuff of comedy in the movies, in the workplace the repercussions of fraught communications between genders can be […]
The end of 2012 saw the following notable news items: A Mildura Magistrate imposed a $50,000 individual fine for workplace bullying [1] Comcare issued the CSIRO with an Improvement Notice under the Work Health and Safety Act 2011 (Vic). The improvement notice requires the CSIRO to undertake a range of improvements to its systems in […]
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg recently announced that the company had signed up its 1 billionth member. It’s incredible to think that 1 in 7 people living on this planet are using this social media site to share what they did on the weekend. Linked In, Youtube, My Space, Twitter – Social media has quickly infiltrated […]