If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!John P. Kotter is currently touring Australia talking about leadership and how to successfully manage change. I was lucky enough to attend his seminar this week in Canberra. His seminar was different to others that I have attended, in [...]
In the papers a few days ago there was the announcement that a government department sacked 11 staff for looking at pornography on their work computers and another 14 had resigned for abusing the department's internet use policy. The Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) also noted that all staff were now banned from storing non-work-related photos [...]
I have got this book on order from Amazon and cannot wait to read it - The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn't by Bob Sutton. This book was published in February this year. It is about creating an environment where no assholes should be allowed in [...]
The Olivier Internet Job Index June 2007 has been released. The Olivier IJI provides information to employers, recruiters and job seekers on what is happening in the Australian labour market by analysing Internet job ads. They break this information further into different employment sectors and for each State and Territory. There were 330,438 job ads [...]
As HR professionals we should know our organisation's business. If we do not, then we are most likely designing HR strategies for "HR's sake" and not adding any real value. HR processes and strategies should be designed to help the overall organisational goals and to give a competitive advantage. The only way to [...]
