Deloitte’s Peter Williams explains why social connectivity can build strong organisations.

There are plenty of reasons to be wary of advocating mandatory reporting on employment targets that favour minority groups. For one, mandatory reporting spawns yet another regulatory regime. Another is that, as a form of affirmative action, it can often lead to real or perceived cases of unfairness and injustice. And a third: it tends […]

There were plenty of good things that could have been said about the way Toyota handled its recent redundancies at the Altona plant in Melbourne. First the company announced some months ago its intention to make job cuts and explained that the strong Australian dollar was the straw that was breaking the car maker’s back […]

Last week AHRI released the findings of a study we conducted at the end of 2011 on the workforce participation of older workers. AHRI has been involved in this issue for some 10 years now, at one stage initiating the development of workshop for DEEWR on Younger Managers and Older Workers. In those early days […]

Serge Sardo interviews AHRI’s 2011 CEO of the Year Patrick Greene.

Over the past few months I’ve been active in the disability employment area, thanks to the publication of our August research paper, Recruiting People with a Disability: An Employer Perspective. While I applaud the work being done by the Government in its attempts to boost the employment of people with disabilities in Australia, I’ve also […]

As I sit down to write this piece and kick-start the new AHRI blog-site, a story has landed on my desk about a woman suing a large multinational company for $1.1 million in the Australian Federal Court, and in the process implicating a HR manager for the company’s alleged failure to act on her bullying […]