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Annual Leave Takes its Toll on Fellow Employees: Report
Article:Over half of Australian workers become stressed and believe they have to work harder when colleagues take leave, according to Randstad's Q2 Workmonitor report. Sixty-five per cent of workers believe their workload has increased in the past three months.
The Right Fit: Graduate Screening
Article:The graduate recruitment industry in Australia has grown considerably over the past decade in line with the number of students attending university.
Reconciliation in Action
Article:Unemployment amongst Indigenous Australians is four times greater than any other demographic. That statistic, when viewed alongside similar statistics for standard of living and health, rams home the gross inequalities facing Indigenous Australians.
Leadership Question: Who's in the Fast Lane?
Article:Employees are the engine of any company; without staff an organisation cannot function effectively. But it's that slice of the employee population known as high-potential employees that provides the engine's turbo booster.
Boardroom Effectiveness and Diversity
Article:Fundamental to the effectiveness of any board of directors is the requirement to ensure that it has the breadth of perspectives and experience which will lead it to make the best decisions possible for the company it governs.
Engagement in Ecommerce - the EBay Way
Article:"It's said that a day is a long time in politics, a week can see fortunes reverse in sport and 2009 proved that a year is a very long time in business.
Over 12 months, the Australian based eBay team felt the impacts of the GFC, turned around eBay's relationship with local users and demonstrated a close to 20% increase in staff engagement (from an already high base). Redundancies were followed quickly by growth into new areas in a rapidly changing sector."
Inside Job: How Staff Culture Drives Performance
Article:In 1988, General Motors (GM) executive Elmer Johnson wrote: "We have vastly underestimated how deeply ingrained are the organisational and cultural rigidities that hamper our ability to execute."
Culture of Giving Flows from the Bottom Up
Article:With economic conditions in Australia improving as Christmas rapidly approaches, businesses are being encouraged to consider their commitment to corporate social responsibility (CSR) and to support those Australians who have been impacted by the global economic downturn.
Transitions: HR at BDO Kendalls
Article:As a 20-year-old Army Lieutenant with direct reports twice his age, Ben Deverson learnt a thing or two about people management early in his career.
It's Learning, but not as We Know it
Article:Over the past decade as technology continued to integrate itself across all aspects of the workplace, e-learning has grown in leaps and bounds, moving from a disjointed uploaded PowerPoint presentation towards providing dynamic and engaging interactive online web content.