Overly authoritarian and bureaucratic IT managers are bad for morale and productivity and are making their staff sick.
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The Office of the Federal Workplace Ombudsman announced yesterday that it will be lodging an investigation into the dismissal of 600 staff at telco Commander as part of its turnaround plan released this week.
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It happens more often than most CIOs will admit, but consciously or unconsciously, tech leaders push top managers and employees beyond their limit. What happens when employees reach that limit?
Convincing people of the importance of regular backups and a proper data management plan is a bit like persuading them of the necessity of regular visits to the dentist no-one bothers until they wake up in the morning screaming with pain. But if you can't persuade them with pain, sex often works a treat.
Does anyone seriously believe that Australian businesses and government agencies manage security any better than the US or UK?
For a large-scale storage project, it's not uncommon to go out to tender for the best deal but when was the last time you had to put together a tender for a document management room?
Melbourne-based Web start-up 2Vouch yesterday launched the first public beta of what it dubs its "social recruiting platform".
Everything from cleaning to IT development work is outsourced by governments these days, but should security clearance processes, which dictate what access a person has to government information systems, be included in that bundle?
Team members may have personal problems, annoying habits or struggle with tasks. How should IT managers approach these issues?
Commonly used as one tool in a hiring manager's arsenal, employee assessment tests can also yield important insight into the talent and work styles of your existing employees.
HR expert Peter Woolford explains why you should support your team member's quest to move into another department, as well why you need to cut dead weight even if new replacements aren't on the agenda.
Respect for staff and being a mentor to team members were skills respondents to a recent survey thought were key to being a good IT manager.
As a CIO or IT manager, pulling your team together to work as a group is no easy task, regardless of the industry you operate in. How do you find the balance between too much and too little control?
It is not only the staff at RMIT Labs who have been busy, virus writers worked hard too.
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Secrecy seems to shroud the data centre arena -- all well and good for security's sake, but not so great when trying to pick a provider. We pull back the curtains to find what data centre options exist in Australia.
CRM packages are everywhere these days. Which one is right for your organisation?
Does your company's human resource management functions need to be automated? We look at what you need to consider, and three packages to help you do it.
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The cash-strapped UK National Museum of Computing is home to an exhibition of the evolution of British PCs.… Watch it now
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