It has been almost a decade since the introduction of the Fair Work Act 2009, which provided flexible work entitlements to assist employees, balance care for children, maintain personal career paths and improve work and family balance. But while we are making slow and...

Talented employees’ often fail to reach their potential. There are many reasons why this occurs such as disengagement, organisational politics, personal circumstances and so on. One of these reasons is because they don’t perceive a high degree of congruence, match, sim...

Research shows that whether a project succeeds or fails is largely dependent on the project stakeholders and their management. Establishing and maintaining relationships with each of the stakeholders, a key component of stakeholder management, may be a considered a ‘f...

“Much as we believe that we are most productive in our little silos, the fundamental fact remains that humans are social animals. By denying the opportunity to collaborate and cross-pollinate ideas, businesses contribute to their own speedy demise.” - Pratik Dhola...

Workplace stress is a focus of much public discussion today – and for good reason. The Stress and Wellbeing survey, conducted by the Australian Psychological Society, found that, while workplace wellbeing fluctuated year on year that the survey was undertaken, it was l...

“Narrative analysis has both a long history and is an umbrella term for multiple, often quite distinct but sometimes overlapping (and sometimes confusing) approaches. Narrative approaches are diverse, and discourses depicting their complexity are correct.”

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Researchers estimate that toxic workplaces costs companies almost $14,000 per employee due to loss of productivity, with unhappy employees projecting their frustrations onto clients and customers, and the overall quality of work decreasing. In Australia the national re...

How to avoid alienating your employees when asking for feedback on new initiatives, Part 2

In our previous blog post in this series we noted that different research methods and feedback mechanisms position your employees (the research subjects) differently and that this...

How research methods and feedback mechanisms can impact engagement in workplace initiatives, Part 3

In this blog post series we’ve been looking at the benefits and limitations of different feedback mechanisms by exploring the ways they create research relationships that...

How to avoid alienating your employees when asking for feedback on new initiatives - Part 1

Being asked to provide feedback can make people feel valued. Giving people the opportunity to express their views and be involved in workplace initiatives is, generally speaking,...