My good friend and colleague, Di Armbrust, in her 2015 book, “The 2% Effect” titled Chapter 6 “Killing Bambi”.   She refers to “killing...

A colleague shared a recent experience. They were planning their annual school feast including speeches, fun activities for the students,...

I’d argue the evidence over the past 20 or 30 years confirms that Performance Improvement Plans almost always end up in termination....

In a recent presentation, Dr Beatrice Hofmeyr, an organisational change expert, highlighted that 90% of organisational change relates to...

An employee's resignation was "a cry for assistance" after a traumatic incident at work, but her employer's response was "frankly,...

“Ongoing" performance monitoring, along with a team leader's management style and a heavy workload, caused an employee's psychological...

“Women’s liberation groups demand equal pay, childcare, access to abortions, and protection from men’s violence. Lesbians demand freedom...

In a recent case before the Personal Injury Commission of New South Wales (reference), the Member found “… I accept that the applicant’s...

What impact would a 20% increase in productivity have on your business and the employee experience? Not only is such an outcome good for...

If I had one dollar for every time a HR practitioner said this to me ”if only the manager had followed the process, we would not have...

With the introduction of the 2022 Queensland “Managing the risk of psychosocial hazards at work - Code of Practice”, the WHS Act imposes...

As your business grows, HR plays a more central role in collecting, storing, and reporting on a range of employee information. Across the...

At the 2021 Human Resource Congress, Dave Ulrich referred to the 8th round of the Human Resource Competency Study (HRCS) produced by the...

I was recently at a networking meeting where the topic turned to the problems that occur when employees and managers do not follow the...

I recently wrote an article on how many HR processes used today are too complex for managers to use, for records to be maintained, and...

In a 2010 text titled Managing Performance Improvement by Tovey, Uren and Sheldon, an analysis-appraisal flowchart is provided to assist...

In a recent article published on HRMonline (reference) the argument was made that many managers apply ‘quiet firing’ by covertly stopping...

In 2021, AHRI teamed up with the University of Sydney Business School to survey 163 HR professionals and explore how performance...

I was recently reading an article titled ‘How the HR monster destroyed the workplace’ written by Juliet Samuel and published in the UK’s...

Scenario Jose has worked for the business for about four years and has been an average to above average employee until about six months...