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01 Apr 2013
John M Green questions whether working from home may be shirking from home.
With swathes of non-executive directors working from home (WFH) for big licks of time, we must think it’s a top idea. For a lot of what we do, it is.
Technology is now so brilliant. It’s a snap to zip through board ...
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CDM Article
01 Apr 2013
Kathleen Conlon talks to Tony Featherstone about boardroom diversity, the risks of policy-on-the-run, strategy formation and how emerging directors can find their first board position.
A constant danger for boards is the potential for "groupthink" if directors agree too easily with the co...
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CDM Article
01 Mar 2013
Michael Tooma outlines the lessons Australian directors can learn from New Zealand’s Pike River Mine disaster that killed 29 miners in November 2010.
At one level, the New Zealand report, Royal Commission on the Pike River Coal Mine Tragedy, reads like so many reports before it – another ...
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01 Dec 2012
Skilled workers are becoming an increasingly rare and valuable commodity. Domini Stuart explains why engaging staff will be crucial as we head into 2013.
Staff cutbacks, factory closures and business failures are rarely out of the news. But while some jobs are being lost, there is a growi...
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CDM Article
01 Nov 2012
Cancer in the workplace is expected to continue to rise. Gillian Batt discusses the role directors can play in helping their organisations support employees diagnosed with cancer.
Cancer is the leading cause of death and disability in Australia, with one in two males and one in three fema...
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CDM Article
01 Oct 2012
Michelle McQuaid details the cost of bad managers to organisations and what directors can do about them.
As a member of several boards, I was shocked to recently learn the cost of "toxic bosses" on organisational productivity and profitability. It occurred to me that not once in all my bo...
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CDM Article
01 Jul 2012
Phil Ruthven argues that the serious disconnect between wages and productivity in Australia needs to be addressed soon before it starts hurting GDP growth.
There has been a serious disconnect between wages and productivity across the nation’s industries in recent years, interrupting a gene...
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CDM Article
01 Apr 2012
Tony Featherstone believes boards should be more focused on employee engagement to help their organisations adapt to changing markets and conditions.
As critical board issues go, employee engagement barely rates compared with executive pay, director liability and broader environment, soc...
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CDM Article
01 Apr 2012
Phil Ruthven reviews how the labour market is changing and describes what freedom and progress we can expect for workers as we move through the 21st century.
There were plenty of Labor Party and media beat-ups earlier this year about jobs we cannot afford to lose in banks, airlines and m...
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CDM Article
01 Mar 2012
Phil Ruthven analyses the multi-faceted causes of the slowdown in Australia’s productivity growth rates, and says foresight and courage will be needed to tackle this problem.
Figures 1 and 2 show the history of productivity over the past 110 years (annually) and 30 years (quarterly).
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