For many employees, flexibility is no longer a nice-to-have luxury but a fundamental requirement. Yet many requests are still being turned down.
- Senior Lecturer, Graduate School of Business and Law, RMIT University
Creating psychological boundaries between work and home life is healthy – up to a point.
Some companies may be able to improve their efficiency in the short term, but aggressive surveillance can also backfire.
Finding common ground is a crucial first step in overcoming differences of opinion and perspective.
Whoever forms Australia’s next government must work to reverse declining public trust in our institutions and leaders.
One policy expert says we need a royal commission into ‘what the hell is going on’ with the gender pay gap.
Alarmingly for the Morrison government, the public has well and truly registered its lack of action on climate change.
The way in which Australians think about leadership in the education sector has changed throughout the pandemic. It’s seen as a public good, with ethics and accountability gaining in importance.
The idea of work-life balance caught on the 1980s. The COVD-19 pandemic shows we need to replace it with a more integrated approach.
An analysis of billions of words in the Google Books database shows the way society has valued moral principles such as compassion, respect for authority, community values and fairness over time.
That Starbucks will close all US stores for ‘unconscious bias training’ may seem progressive, but one afternoon training session for staff will not overcome racism in the longer term.
Even back in the 90s, researchers were trying to alert hiring managers to the ineffectiveness of this as a tool, noting some major problems.
Studies have shown that shame can motivate people to be both helpful but also vengeful, so the verdict is still out on whether it curbs bad behaviour.
There are many instances where underrepresented groups may be unwittingly discriminated against in recruitment due to affinity bias.
Girls and women still face implicit and explicit discrimination, and a key to changing that is for more women to take on leadership roles.
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