Yahoo has become the talk of Twitter and Silicon Valley for its provocative move to terminate the option to telecommute, generating international debate over workplace flexibility. Critics advised that employee morale will plummet, Yahoo will lose key people, and Yahoo’s efforts to enhance collaboration will backfire. There’s plenty of research that seems to support these grim predictions. …
Aussie employees are grudgingly hauling themselves to work and are apathetic and disengaged. A recent global survey published in 2012 by Gallup indicates that Aussie workers are among the most dissatisfied in the world, with only 21 per cent engaged in their work. The survey, a poll of 47,000 people in more than a hundred …
Despite high-profile reports about gender gaps, equal pay, and women on boards, once again the needle barely budged for women aspiring to top business leadership in Australia according to the 2012 Australian Census of Women in Leadership. The latest census data on women in leadership reveals an improvement in the number of female board directors …
The leadership role of women continues to strengthen in the family, at work and in the broader society. The enduring global economic hardship has solidified, not weakened, the role of women in the workplace. “Gender is a business issue, not a woman’s issue!” states Benja Stig Fagerland the inventor of “Womenomics.” Women constitute half of …
By Kali Goldstone & Errol Price. The proposed Anti-discrimination and Human Rights Bill 2012 has “Human Rights” emblazoned in the title. This is an interesting move, as it sets a certain tone and emphasises the inextricable link between human rights and the attempt to eliminate discrimination in public affairs. The changes will consolidate five acts into one: Racial …
Prospective dads and partners can now apply for paid time off work when their new baby is born. Eligible fathers are entitled to two weeks paid leave under the federal governments Dad and Partner Pay scheme, as of 1 January 2013. The leave itself is not a new entitlement, but the payment is. Under the …
Ostensible differences between male and female abilities – from reading maps to multitasking, from verbal skills to expressing emotion – are claimed to be based on variations in the hard-wiring of brains at birth. This belief has become widespread, particularly in the wake of publications like Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus. Whatever …
The fundamental shift in global economic and strategic influence from west to east, means that the ability of executives to impact across cultural boundaries and lead and work within multicultural teams is becoming critical to business success. The Australia in the Asian Century White Paper, released on Sunday 31 October, thus calls for greater engagement …
On 19th September, Symmetra’s CEO Heather Price, was a guest speaker at a breakfast seminar in Auckland, hosted by the Equal Employment Opportunities (EEO) Trust and the Auckland Chamber of Commerce. The EEO Trust is a not-for-profit organisation designed to provide EEO information and tools to employers and raise awareness of diversity issues in the workplace in …
Can unconscious bias be inferred when taking into account the subjective intention of an employer, (what the employer really thought), when she or he acts against an employee? The recent High Court’s (HCA) decision on The Board of Bendigo Regional Institute of Technical and Further Education v Barclay [2012] (Barclay) focused on whether the law …