Month: October 2018

Good employee selection practices makes a difference

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Industrial relations reform In Australia, both the unions and federal government are mounting major advertising campaigns about proposed changes to the federal industrial relations laws by the Australian government. The changes are part of the government’s industrial relations reforms. Whilst I do not want to debate the merits of the union and government cases, I do want to continue discussion of the theme of employee engagement covered in a previous employee engagement article. The Australian union movement, through the ACTU (Australian Council of Trade Unions), has mounted a national advertising campaign. One TV advert features a mother, obviously enjoying a healthy work/life balance, being confronted with the threat of dismissal by an employer requesting a change of roster. Another union advert features an employee being forced under threat to change his employment status by the employer representative. There is much debate in Australia about whether the scenarios depicted will actually be possible under the proposed reforms. The detail is still to be released, so I cannot comment one way or the other. What I can comment …

Dealing with positive staff performance

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Industrial relations reform In Australia, both the unions and federal government are mounting major advertising campaigns about proposed changes to the federal industrial relations laws by the Australian government. The changes are part of the government’s industrial relations reforms. Whilst I do not want to debate the merits of the union and government cases, I do want to continue discussion of the theme of employee engagement covered in a previous employee engagement article. The Australian union movement, through the ACTU (Australian Council of Trade Unions), has mounted a national advertising campaign. One TV advert features a mother, obviously enjoying a healthy work/life balance, being confronted with the threat of dismissal by an employer requesting a change of roster. Another union advert features an employee being forced under threat to change his employment status by the employer representative. There is much debate in Australia about whether the scenarios depicted will actually be possible under the proposed reforms. The detail is still to be released, so I cannot comment one way or the other. What I can comment …

Staff motivation and industrial relations reform

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Industrial relations reform In Australia, both the unions and federal government are mounting major advertising campaigns about proposed changes to the federal industrial relations laws by the Australian government. The changes are part of the government’s industrial relations reforms. Whilst I do not want to debate the merits of the union and government cases, I do want to continue discussion of the theme of employee engagement covered in a previous employee engagement article. The Australian union movement, through the ACTU (Australian Council of Trade Unions), has mounted a national advertising campaign. One TV advert features a mother, obviously enjoying a healthy work/life balance, being confronted with the threat of dismissal by an employer requesting a change of roster. Another union advert features an employee being forced under threat to change his employment status by the employer representative. There is much debate in Australia about whether the scenarios depicted will actually be possible under the proposed reforms. The detail is still to be released, so I cannot comment one way or the other. What I can comment …

The Best Advice for Time Management

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Farah’s struggling. She’s got a lot to do, and the day just seems to get away from her. The 40 minutes she spent surfing Instagram didn’t help her cross items off her list, but it was the only break from work that she took all day. Still, at the end of the day, she feels unsatisfied and downcast because she didn’t complete what she had on her to-do list. Farah thinks she has a time management problem. Farah’s problem isn’t time management. It’s even bigger than that. Remember a day when you got three times as much done in the same time frame on the previous day? You had the same number of hours on those days as you did on the ‘meh’ accomplishment days, right? We all do. So what got you going on those high achievement days? Focus. What makes you focus? Something important you want to do, a goal you want to reach. What makes you focus is the impact you want to have. Farah’s big problem was that she wasn’t clear …

Work enjoyment helps employee retention

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Morale in a magazine review article, a cartoon showed the typical slave master, complete with whip, walking the aisle of an old style ship. The rowers were struggling under the threat of the whip. The caption stated: Apart from greater use of the whip, the new IR rules have made absolutely no difference to the way we treat our employees. It reminded me of the old saying (source unknown): We will stop using the whip when morale improves. The cartoon was a “tongue in cheek” comment about the new industrial relations (IR) legislation introduced by the federal government. In a previous article, Staff motivation in the industrial relations reform context, I discussed some of the motivational issues raised by the various campaigns surrounding the reforms. The imagery of the cartoon again highlights the importance of the employer/employee relationship. This is now even more important, given that employee retention is now such a big issue. So what can you do? Employee friendly policies and practices Young people are more mobile and less committed to individual organisations. The …