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A survey released today makes for alarming reading, especially if you happen to be a blue collar small business owner with employees under your ‘duty of care’ and are either oblivious or feel powerless about what drugs your employees may be taking in the workplace. To clarify what  ‘duty of care’ means – you as a […]

Recently, everyone has been talking about Andrew Flanagan and his appointment at Myer as a senior executive. That wasn’t the news though, it was where he was terminated on his first day! This was after it was discovered that he had not worked as the Managing Director of Inditex as he had claimed on his […]

We recently sent out a survey to a number of small businesses to ascertain how compliant they are around current employment legislation – and it made for stark reading. We had respondents from a wide range of industries such as travel, IT, finance, accountants, events, publishing and interior design to name just a few. The […]

No business owner or manager wants to hear the news or suspect that an employee is stealing from them.  There is rightful a rightful feeling of dread around brand damage, client security breaches and reputation but sadly employee theft or fraud is all too common and we have had clients who have been through this […]

Recently, FWA ruled that Home Choice had unfairly dismissed an employee who had emailed the entire company calling his MD a name (rhyming with banker!) and stating that one of his hobbies was masturbation. Pretty extreme I would say, so why couldn’t they fire him and what can we learn from this case? Culture – […]

You may or may not have ever thought about the end – the time when for a number of reasons you would like to sell your business. The frightening thing is, is that you are not alone – the majority of business owners haven’t either – but if you would like to get 4 times […]

These simple steps in the article will help you ‘navigate’ the silly season and help to have all of your employees feel that they ‘matter’ to you. We have hit the ‘silly season’ and there is a very good reason that it is called just that. We typically eat, drink and party more enthusiastically than […]

Why do some people want to desperately work for some businesses and avoid others like the plague? Mostly it can be put down to culture or the managers’ reputation. But how do you make or create a culture? Why would you bother? My thinking is that if more businesses focused on their cultural strategy, many […]

I was visiting McDonalds yesterday on the behalf a client and, as I was leaving with my host, the lift opened and a women entered – average height probably in her late thirties – my host exchanged the usual type of pleasantries with her, as you do in a lift, so I assumed that she […]

HR has long had a ‘touchy feely’ reputation but this is fast changing and in my view will continue to do so. At the big end of town, bit by bit the data is changing or improving the decisions made around what is often one of the most expensive costs to a business – your […]