Workplace Culture

Education

How to avoid ‘death by PowerPoint

Many of us have sat through slide presentations that are boring and lifeless, but with a bit more thought, you can save your audience from tedium

Business & Economics

How job-hopping managers undermine corporate culture

A senior manager’s career preferences shape their team's cultural values in both positive and negative ways, with implications for firms selecting senior managers

Business & Economics

Being creative can make you more popular at work

Creativity, especially when combined with demographic difference, helps build a well-connected workforce

Politics & Society

Building mentally healthy workplaces

Mental ill-health has massive social and economic costs – governments and employers must do more to prevent psychiatric injury at work

Business & Economics

Why Dungeons and Dragons is good for the workplace

A D&D-inspired mindset could help change how we think about our workplaces and working together as a team

Politics & Society

Fixing the blind spot in nuclear inspections

A blind spot in safeguards culture led to a ‘that’s the way we do things around here’ approach at the IAEA – but lessons have been learned since Iraq

Education

Crafting your work to increase job satisfaction

By enabling staff to take greater control over their work while meeting company goals, job crafting helps drive greater employee engagement, wellbeing and retention

Politics & Society

Keeping sexual harassment complaints confidential

The Geoffrey Rush defamation trial failed to place scrutiny on the Sydney Theatre Company’s role in leaking the sexual harassment complaint and their inability to handle it in sensitive and confidential way

Sciences & Technology

Don’t ask women leaders to act like men

Diversity is about accepting the differences in people, not about making women act like men

Business & Economics

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Podcast

Workplace bullying in the #MeToo era

Workplace bullying creates a toxic environment, but the #MeToo movement is highlighting the drivers of abuse that women experience at work