The Direction – May 2016

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Note from our Director

Welcome to our May edition of The Direction – inspiring you towards maximising performance and productivity of your team.  See our inspiring quotes below, this time we covered Employee Engagement.  Please let us know if you would like to know more.  You can contact us on 07 3890 2066,  admin@hrbd.com.au or any of us individually.

 

Inspiring thoughts…..

Consequences of not having an employment contract – So, you don’t think you need an employment contract for your employees? ‘It’s just a piece of paper with words you say, or …. Read more

Managing by Data and KPI’s and the impact on workplace culture –  Data is beautiful.  Data provides us with an objective shared language that can cut through ambiguity to make the complicated… Read more

Reasons why a focus on people is required regardless of the size of your business – So, does size really matter?  Not when it comes to business it doesn’t.  It doesn’t matter what size the business .… Read more

WH&S Planning – Why you need to do it – In previous articles I have written about the need to integrate WH&S in business operations and thinking big about safety when the organisation is small… Read more

 

Industry News

The Victorian IR Minister is conducting a review of the states’ Long Service Leave Act.  AHRI have conducted a survey of members to form part of their submission which indicated that while only a small proportion of employees remain in organisations long enough to access LSL, it is an entitlement that is highly valued and should not be abandoned without an equivalent replacement.

 

Case Summaries

Bullying or not, whatever way you look at it, it’s costing you – When a bullying complaint is made to the Fair Work Commission they have to consider whether the behaviour has been repeated…. Read more

  

Industry Statistics

Over half of Australians are prepared to drop salary by 20% to work from home and a further 33% to take a 10% drop for the same.

HR Monthly reported that obese employees use an average of 10 days more sick leave a year.  Beneficial to provide information about health and wellbeing.

 

Clients

Whytes Accountants and Business Advisors are another happy client and we appreciate your kind words Hudson Smith, thank you!…  Read more

 

Looking for more inspiration….

 Join our LinkedIn group – Inspiring Greater Than HR and join in the conversation.  Be Inspired.  Inspire Others.   Greater than HR.  Some recent discussions:

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