Retention

• ​Why people stay: How to keep your best employees

  Retention of high-performing employees is critical to maintaining and enhancing an organisation’s competitive advantage in difficult economic times. Insync Surveys’ latest research paper, Why People Stay: How to Keep Your Best Employees, looks at what makes employees more likely to stay with their employers read more

• HR as the C-suite emissary

  Most HR directors are now finding themselves with a place in the C-suite. Is their new role all about delivering a message? read more

• How one bad manager tried to crush Apple’s employer branding

  The conversation about Apple’s workplace has turned sour after a disgruntled employee wrote a viral essay about what it’s really like at the tech giant. read more

• Where are your staff’s priorities?

  Even your most loyal staff could walk if the price is right, but money's not the only option to help keep your top team together. read more

• Australia lagging in outplacement services

  Australia is trailing behind the rest of the world in outplacement, a new study has found. Here’s why HR pros need to turn it around. read more

• Is outplacement dying?

  Job cuts spiked in January, with huge layoffs for several retailers. Time will tell whether outplacement was worth the cost for them, but is it really worth it for you? read more

• Optimistic Australian CEOs prep for headcount boost

  Aussie CEO business confidence is steady, studies show, with significant implications for hiring. read more

• Reap the seeds you sow: Keeping your high performers around

  The new generation are highly educated and entrepreneurial, but also ready to move. How do you keep the talent you trained up from taking their skills elsewhere? read more

• Weekly Wrap: Engineering slowdown, GM responds to inequity claims, police fight wages cap

  What’s been happening in the world of HR/IR this week? Here’s HC’s Weekly Wrap. read more

• Bonuses: In the Crosshairs?

  In 2014, Australian companies will be watching new European caps on bonus payments in the financial sector with interest, Stephen Burke reports read more