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Organisational learning about depression in the workplace: a community of practice of silence and avoidance

Author/s: Lisa Davies

Edition: Volume 46, Number 1, April 2006

Summary: The economic and social impact of depression on the Australian workforce (Hickie 2002; Hawthorne, Cheok, Goldney and Fisher 2003) is only recently being acknowledged. In 2004 I undertook semi-structured interviews with people with human resource responsibilities in the deregulated sector of information technology in South Australia. The interviews focused on their accessibility to work-based education about depression and asked their opinions regarding the merit of such education.

Keywords: depression, Australian workforce, human resources, work-based education

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Succession planning: does it matter in the context of corporate leadership?

Author/s: Patricia Richards

Edition: Volume 48, Number 3, November 2008

Summary: Corporations invest heavily in human resource management infrastructures intended amongst other things to provide for the future leadership needs of the corporation. Adopting well-known succession planning techniques, human resource managers routinely engage in corporate leadership identification and development processes, often directly involving the chief executive officer. This paper reports on a tendency for chief executive officers not to take all that much notice of these processes when making appointments to their own senior leadership teams. Drawing on three institutional case studies and in-depth interview data with the 12 chief executive officers, the paper shows that what appears to matter most in these appointments is likely impact of a leadership appointment on corporate profitability, though other pet leadership criteria may also be applied. The paper discusses the implications of this situation for human resource managers.

Keywords: human resources, leadership, manager, senior appointments

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