2024

Articles

Australians now have the right to disconnect - but how workplaces react will be crucial

The right to disconnect can improve work-life balance and wellbeing, but its success depends on how it is implemented and enforced within each workplace, write Professor Emmanuel Josserand and Associate Professor Martijn Boersma for The Conversation.

Humility and commitment key to overcoming team silence

A study of thousands of workers across three countries has revealed the secrets to improved team performance.

Meet the 2024 Global Executive MBA Cohort

Our 2024 Global Executive MBA Cohort spans from marketing specialists to doctors and entrepreneurs. Students will graduate with a global mindset, adept at aligning economics with ethics and reconciling opportunity with responsibility.

Making workers return to the office might not make them any more productive, despite what NSW premier says

Employers and workers agree that working from home is more productive, with most time saved on commuting spent working instead, writes Professor David Hensher for The Conversation.

Giving early childhood educators an extra 15% is good policy, and even better politics

The pay rise is a partial amendment for gender pay inequity and prevents providers from hitting families with excessive fee rises, writes Professor John Buchanan for The Conversation.

Research centre to build gender equality at work

World-leading research is paired with practical, evidence-based insights at a new multidisciplinary research centre with a practical mission.

The 3 changes Australian sport must make after Volleyball Australia's shocking abuse report

Transparency, accountability and redress are needed to break the cycle of systemic abuse in sport, write Dr Natalie Galea, Dr Mary Woessner and Victoria Roberts for The Conversation.

A decade of disorientation: The biggest leadership challenge of the future

A Sydney Executive Plus report has identified the leadership skills key to futureproofing, ranging from the urgent to the unexpected.

Want to buy an electric car but unsure you can justify it? Here's how the arguments against EVs stack up

Most of the perceived barriers to EV uptake aren't really barriers at all, or soon won't be, write Professor John Rose and Dr Andrea Pellegrini for The Conversation.

Why real wages have fallen in Australia but risen in most other OECD countries

A changing workforce and the shift to enterprise bargaining have held back real wage growth, writes Professor John Buchanan.