HR in practice

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HR in practice is a very broad area and overlaps numerous aspects of the content on WorkplaceInfo. This collection includes a number of practical, step-by-step guides to employment practice and industrial action which highlights workplace scenarios and the legalities they entail.

| HR in the new IR landscape | Principal legislation | Public sector | Industrial action  |  HR topics | Selected feature articles |

HR in the new IR landscape

• Balancing the pressures
• What is the HR role in the post-WorkChoices environment?
• The policy-making role of HR
• Policies into practice - HR as the champion of organisational integrity
• Using termination to manage poor performance
• The ultimate bogey: Performance management
• Measuring HR
• Employee incentives
• Juggling ethics, the law and business imperatives

Principal legislation

Principal IR and employment legislation in Australia impacting on industrial relations issues and employment issues is noted here:

• ACT & Northern Territory
• Commonwealth
• New South Wales
• Queensland
• South Australia
• Tasmania
• Victoria
• Western Australia

Public sector

• HR/IR in the public sector - examples of useful articles and cases with a public sector focus.

Industrial action

• Industrial action
• Union officials in the workplace
• Industrial action and federal legislation *

HR topics

• Generating culture change from HR
• Hypotheticals - guidance for HR via case studies
• Crisis management - workplace events and issues

• Focus on total rewards, not just cash and benefits
• Who are managers and what are their rights?
• When one employee complains about another
• What to put in a climate survey?
• After the climate survey...then what?
• Establishing a formal mentoring program
• Making HR policies user-friendly
• Mediation: back on the workplace reform agenda
• When an employee steals: what should you do?
• Casuals, contractors or labour hire workers: which is better?
• What is required of today's business leaders?

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