Wicked Workplaces

Great Workplaces Equals Great Returns

Dec

3

2013

Treating people well and authentically respecting them leads to far better business performance. The proof is in the Profits. Jerome Dodson founded the Parnassus Workplace Fund in 2005, a mutual fund that invests exclusively in large American firms proven to have outstanding workplaces. A journo named Milton Moskowitz told him in the early 2000’s that ...

Your Best Recruiter May Just Be Your Worst

Nov

7

2013

Are companies measuring their recruiter’s effectiveness the wrong way and subsequently causing damage to their growth and profits? Some years ago, we worked with a company that had an ongoing recruitment problem in one specific geographic region. In this region there was always a long list of unfilled roles vacant. So the company decided to ...

Head Office Relocation? It’s not a property decision

Oct

29

2013

A government department in Australia this week announced to their staff they would be relocating their head office and 300 people from the CBD to an outer suburb some 25 kilometres away. The rationale was that in this outer suburb, the government had built and occupied a large office building some years ago, which now ...

Ryanair’s goal to ‘Stop pissing people off’ is a great HR Mantra 73

Oct

23

2013

Michael O’Leary, CEO of Ryanair, in his first customer tweet session yesterday, came in for heaps of abuse, particularly when he replied to one female tweeter, ‘nice Pic. Phwoar!’ Makes you wonder, but later he did say something of note that didn’t entice ‘sexist pig’ replies. He said he wanted Ryanair to stop doing ...

Are Myers the Great Externalisers?

Oct

22

2013

End 2012 When Myer CEO Bernie Brookes announced a 15% fall in net profit for the financial year 2012, the reasons for the poor result given to the press and shareholders were insightful. They included the fall in equity markets, turmoil in Europe, the high Australian dollar, subdued consumer sentiment, the middle man, the internet, ...