Only 8 per cent of the population has had direct experience with meeting a transgender person. Queenslander of the Year Catherine McGregor reveals the power of storytelling as a tool to encourage diversity and inclusion at AHRI's Inclusion and Diversity Conference.

It's common knowledge that attractive people are treated favourably in some situations. But when it comes to the workplace, are handsome men at a disadvantage?

Managers need to be ‘braver for just a little bit longer’ if they are to capitalise on the creativity of employees as a source of competitive advantage, Gruen panelist Todd Sampson told the AHRI HRIZON National Convention yesterday in a keynote address. The problem is that creativity is knocked out of employees by a combination […]

The past week has seen very extensive media coverage of the death of a British nurse, which followed a hoax call (made by an Australian radio station) to the hospital that employed her. The tragic event raises a wide range of legal and ethical issues that affect the hospital, the radio station and the media […]

Despite having a rather geeky image, online games can be successfully applied to a wide range of HR functions and processes. The scope of their potential use was discussed at a seminar conducted by the Australian Human Resources Institute (AHRI) in Sydney on 18 July 2012. Why use games? Andrew Butow, from Presence of IT, […]

The sheer scale and long-term focus of the National Broadband Network (NBN) project means that it seldom dominates the headlines, but it is likely to have a significant impact on how many businesses operate. What implications does it have for HR practitioners and what should they now be doing about it? Scope of the project […]

The report of HR practitioners’ perceptions of the Fair Work Act 2009, released by the Australian Human Resources Institute (AHRI), paints a generally negative picture of the Act’s impact so far. This article provides some general editorial comments on the report’s findings. What do the results tell us? AHRI’s national president, Peter Wilson, made the following […]