Understanding key legal issues: Directors’ duties

This book explores the duties and obligations placed on corporate directors and officers (including company secretaries) by the Corporations Act. It is presented in a concise and easy to understand format. The topic of directors duties is always of interest to corporations. Directors need to ensu... Read more

Published: Dec 2022

Sacrificing Safety: Lessons for Chief Executives

Anglo American’s Grosvenor coal mine explosion in Queensland in 2020 is ultimately attributable to overwhelming production pressures. Underground coal mining is a particularly dangerous activity, requiring delicate engineering judgements to manage a variety of hazards in an ever-changing ge... Read more

Published: May 2022

Michael Tooma on Mental Health

Mental health is one of the most difficult work related risks to manage. Despite being a part of the duty of care, most businesses find the challenge of managing mental health risks in the workplace overwhelming. Part of the difficulty is that the approach to mental health management to date has ... Read more

Published: May 2020

Summit Leadership: Strategies for building high performing teams

The latest book from best-selling business author, Nick Humphrey, is a practical guide to leadership and is the result of extensive interviews with high-achieving leaders including insights from elite coaches and athletes, CEOs, psychologists, serial entrepreneurs and even some Royal Mar... Read more

Published: Oct 2019

Maverick Executive: Strategies for Driving Clarity, Effectiveness and Focus

This new book is the result of extensive interviews with high-achievers including elite athletes, coaches, CEOs and entrepreneurs - bringing together strategies, habits and hacks of high performers and research on high performance. It deconstructs the art and science of peak performance in... Read more

Published: Dec 2016

Success for New Leaders (eBook)

OVERVIEW Success for New Leaders is a practical and personal guide for anyone new to the art of leading people. The eBook presents a number of typical challenges experienced by managers, offering techniques, or “tips” on what works and what does not — enabling new leader... Read more

Published: Nov 2014

Manager to Leader: Skills and insights for a successful transition (eBook)

OVERVIEW All too often people who are successful in their jobs are promoted to management without an appropriate level of support. They are often unaware of the implications of managing a team and their need to develop new skills to lead and inspire people to do their best work. Instead, many ... Read more

Published: May 2014

Managing Workplace Behaviour: A Best Practice Guide

This new title gives an insightful look into the issues relating to behaviour and culture in the workplace. This book also looks at how technological and social networking advances are impacting the workplace. By providing a legal insight into why these matters present challenges for organisation... Read more

Credibility Crisis: Brumadinho and the Politics of Mining Industry Reform

On 25 January 2019 hundreds of people perished when a tailings dam at an iron ore mine in Brazil failed catastrophically. Liquified waste suffocated workers in seconds, and filled the valley below with sludge, destroying lives and livelihoods forever. The Brumadinho tragedy captured the world&... Read more

Due Diligence Collection 2021

SAVE 15% when you purchase this value bundle, with the added bonus of COMPLIMENTARY eBooks for both titles. The third edition of the Due Diligence series explores recent case law and addresses contemporary work health and safety issues, including the new industrial manslaughter l... Read more