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HR practitioners should be driving the environmental sustainability movement within their organisations, according to New Zealand business academics, but most are playing too passive a role.

Employers can generate up to 400 per cent return on talent investment by including as many of the "nine key performance factors" in their performance management systems as possible, according to the authors of a white paper.

Senior executives at some of Australia's top listed companies received increased short-term incentives - such as cash bonuses - in lieu of long-term incentives for performance over the 2008/09 financial year, a Mercer survey reveals.

With only three months to go until the "right to request flexibility" kicks off with the other National Employment Standards, more than four in every five employers are under-prepared and at risk of failing to comply with the new rules, a survey reveals.

The lack of formal systems for recording or reporting sick days is costing employers hundreds of thousands of dollars a year, says scientist and manager Dr Martin Cross.

Most employees expect to receive a pay rise once the economy recovers, but HR professionals are among the least optimistic, a survey has found.

Employers can eliminate "desk rage" by identifying uncooperative workers at the recruitment phase, according to a Taleo report.

Leaders who use language to create "a future so vibrant that people are eager to bring it about" can spark "dramatic gains" in employee and business performance, according to the authors of a new book.

Employers in Denmark have embraced flexible working hours arrangements, but some are finding it hard to overcome "flexitime jealousy", according to a visiting academic.

Fewer than one in 10 HR leaders had additional budget to invest in people-based initiatives over the last year, according to new research.