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When it comes to cutting costs, sacking employees is a common solution. Leon Gettler looks at 10 alternative ways to make savings

Job losses are mounting and unemployment statistics in Australia are starting to edge up. It's a time when managers need to start cutting costs – and getting rid of staff is usually the response.

The new AIM group CEO Daniel Musson outlines his exciting vision for the future to Tom Skotnicki The merger of all AIM divisions, other than Western Australia, is a milestone in the creation of Australia's first genuinely national management organisation. The appointment of a well-credentialled young corporate executive, Daniel Musson, as AIM group CEO to head the merged entity, signifies the importance placed on the role by the newly structured AIM board. Musson was born in Melbourne, the son of a navy electrician.

Here are some simple steps we all agreed business leaders could take to ensure a profitable and sustainable culture of innovation.

Australian native Dr David Rock turned the traits of traditional leadership upside down in 2006 when he coined the term NeuroLeadership and preached its benefits to anybody who’d listen.

Australia’s reputation for high quality, H&S standards and its clean, green environment have helped create a strong nation brand for our businesses to leverage.

The Australian Institute of Management has launched its latest list of outstanding young management talent with the national release of the AIM30. The AIM30 is one of Australia’s most prestigious listings of industry leaders under the age of 30, who are making a mark on the management profession. AIM was inundated with applications from young managers all across Australia who wanted to be featured on this exclusive list and the final 30 were selected via a stringent internal recruitment process.

Guest post by Professor Bill Harley The term ‘human resource management’ can be traced back at least to the 1960s, but HRM as we think of it now really emerged in the 1980s. As US scholars looked to the East for inspiration about how to fix productivity problems in US manufacturing, they saw Japanese companies investing in their employees and treating them as valued resources, while seeking to foster employee commitment and build strong cultures. While they may well have misread what was really happening in Japanese firms at the time, the idea that good HR practices were the key to

The preoccupying question for all organisations regarding their staff is: “How do I get the best or better performance?” 

Guest post by Dr Arthur Shelley Whilst the top job in organisations is occupied by the hierarchical boss, that doesn’t necessarily make them the leader. The behaviours required to secure the top position can be quite different from those that make an excellent leader, creating bosses that are more followers than they are leaders. Many at the top of the hierarchy have been engaged in highly competitive and self-focused behaviour to secure their role over internal and external competitors. In doing so, they likely over-emphasised their achievements and focused on delivery of me

Office gossip and talking can create problems. When it’s bad and malicious, it can alienate people, cause morale problems and affect productivity.