Keywords: Workplace Culture
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AUSTRALIA
- Michele Freeman
- 04 July 2008
5 Comments
Average personal debt is at record levels, yet many Australians say work interferes with their capacity to maintain community connections and friendships. Despite a culture that rewards overwork, part-time work can help create time for
ourselves and our communities.
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AUSTRALIA
Modern hospital management theory recognises the importance of workplace culture but doesn't know how to create one that works for the sick. Hosptials need to recapture a philosophy of practice that is lived, not written down in unread mission statements.
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AUSTRALIA
The Troy Buswell saga has highlighted the issues of workplace bulling and sexual harassment. Employees and management need to work to undermine the look-away culture that allows such behaviour to flourish.
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AUSTRALIA
- Michael Mullins
- 05 May 2008
4 Comments
The WA Liberal Party has shown that it is more worried about the damage its 'rough diamond' leader might cause to its electibility than the hurt to the human beings involved in the recently-revealed inappropriate behaviour incident.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Andrena Jamieson
- 28 March 2008
3 Comments
Adherents of many religious groups are interviewed about their beliefs, practices, ethical framework and attitude to contemporary Australian society. Their stories often try to make points of contact between religious practice and Western culture.
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AUSTRALIA
- Susie Byers
- 04 March 2008
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Reforms need to be proposed with an eye to
compassion, providing real skills and training, and dealing with
the underlying issues of racism, mental health, poverty, and education. These have a far greater impact on workforce participation than bone
laziness.
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EDUCATION
- Chris Middleton
- 19 September 2007
Earlier this month, a federal parliamentary committee recommended that teachers should receive higher pay, as an incentive to attract quality recruits and to improve retention. But a new policy could undermine the collective quality of school education.
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AUSTRALIA
Technology has changed human relationships, argues Rufus Black.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Gerard Windsor
- 04 July 2006
Gerard Windsor in Sicily.
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AUSTRALIA
- Virginia Bourke
- 14 May 2006
Virginia Bourke examines the assumptions that underlie equality in parenting and work.
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AUSTRALIA
- Susan Dirgham
- 29 April 2006
Susan Dirgham is entranced by a local Damascene.
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AUSTRALIA
Nick Way looks at the reasons behind poor morale among Victoria’s biggest union.
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