General Australian HR Articles
Wider and more recent range of articles - not listed on this page.
September 14 2006 - Almost one-third of nurses who took part in a large-scale Tasmanian study reported that they had been subjected to both physical and verbal abuse in the previous four working weeks and a quarter had considered resigning as a result, according to research published in the September 2006 issue of the UK-based Journal of Advanced Nursing.
March 3 2006 - Unions have expressed concern about souvenirs produced for the Melbourne Commonwealth Games. They claim that souvenirs may have been manufactured in breach of the international labour standards previously agreed upon by the Games authority and unions.
February 3 2006 - Holding on to existing employees is the highest priority for Australian organisations in 2006.
September 10 2005 - Hewitt Associates, the global HR services firm, has revealed its 2005 Hewitt Best Employers in Australia and New Zealand results. The study is jointly managed by Hewitt Associates, The Australian Graduate School of Management (AGSM) and AFR BOSS magazine.
May 5 2005 - The Workplace Surveillance Bill was introduced in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly on Wednesday. The Bill is intended to replace and widen the scope of the Workplace Video Surveillance Act 1998. It will make it an offence for employers to engage in covert surveillance of emails and website access or the use of tracking devices without a court order.
April 27 2005 - 80% of Australian businesses believe they are seen as great employers offering positive and rewarding workplace environments. But 63% of job seekers say that employers are ‘not delivering’ on expectations.
April 5 2005 - A survey by Ross Human Directions (RHD), a recruitment, technology and human resource management firm shows that organisations are ill-prepared for Generation Y employees.
December 7 2003 - Middle managers should take a good look at their own management skills instead of trying to solve their staffing problems by recruiting better staff. So says Monash University’s Professor Phyllis Tharenou, an organisational behaviour expert, commenting on a recent web poll.
September 29 2003 - Australian workers are losing faith in employers as a result of recent reports on corporate failure and misconduct.
May 22 2003 - The Catholic Commission for Justice Development and Peace is concerned that the Australian Government has failed to include labour rights and environmental protection in its negotiations with the US over a Free Trade Agreement. This is in contrast to the US position in the negotiations.
February 14 2003 - Employees are spending a great deal of working time on the Internet - some of it spent flirting. University of Western Sydney researcher Dr Monica Whitty has made a study of the art of cyberflirting. She finds that men in particular prefer the safety of cyberspace when it comes to flirting with potential partners.
January 4 2003 - A recent study of study of 35,000 Australian and New Zealand managers found that managers regularly deny responsibility, withdraw from threatening situations or people, resort to aggressive tactics to get their way, stick to established rules and procedures - and are characterized by a fear of failure.
March 11 2002 - Unexpected sectors of the services industry are driving the recent improvement in Australian industry productivity, said Productivity Commission Chairman, Gary Banks
May 9 2001 - An Arthur Andersen survey shows that Human Resources (HR) executives say they’re missing two things that could improve their effectiveness - support from top management and sufficient financial resources.
March 19 2001 - One of the largest unions in Australia has joined an international campaign against the manufacture of sweatshop clothing. The LHMU are asking employers in their industries to make sure that all workplace clothes and uniforms worn by members of the union carry a "No Sweat Shop" label.
March 16 2001 - The West Australian Government announced that it will support a national call centre code-of-conduct establishing minimum employment and customer service standards for industry.
March 15 2001 - If legislation regarding the sex industry is changed there may be repercussions not anticipated by the State Government, according to Rob Guthrie, Senior Lecturer at Western Australia's Curtin University of Technology, School of Business Law.
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