Your Word Against Theirs: Why Employees Stay Silent on Workplace
Picture this. You're having lunch with your supervisor in the office pantry. They make an inappropriate comment about your appearance, followed by an unwanted touch on your shoulder that lingers too long. You freeze. Your other colleagues are at their desks, out of earshot.
Is the Absence of a Domestic Inquiry Fatal?
The employee believed he was unfairly dismissed and brought the case to the Industrial Court, which ruled in his favour and awarded compensation. Since no domestic inquiry was held, many assume that this failure was fatal to the employer's case.
Deduction in Salary
The employee's misconduct and their right to be paid for work performed are separate issues. Even though it seems to be a common practice among many companies, it is completely unlawful to make such deductions.
Insubordination at Work: What Every Employer Should Know
As an HR professional, you may encounter situations where employees repeatedly refuse to follow company instructions, challenge management decisions, or demonstrate willful defiance of workplace policies.
Talent Management 2.0: Building Agility, Innovation & Growth in the Future Workplace
As businesses race to adapt to technological disruption, evolving customer expectations, and generational shifts, one truth is clear: your next competitive edge lies in how you manage talent.
Rethinking Reward Management: Building a Future-Ready Total Rewards Strategy
In an age of evolving employee expectations and intense competition for talent, traditional approaches to rewards are no longer enough. Organizations must move beyond pay scales and benchmarking to embrace a Total Rewards Strategy—one that holistically addresses what today’s employees truly value.
Employee Engagement as the Bridge Between EX and CX: A Game-Changer for the Service Sector
In the service industry, your greatest competitive asset isn’t technology or pricing—it’s people. Behind every exceptional customer experience (CX) is an engaged employee who feels empowered, supported, and connected to the company’s mission.
Change Management: The Engine of Organizational Transformation in Today’s Business Environment
In a business landscape defined by disruption—digital innovation, economic shifts, and workforce evolution—change is no longer a phase. It’s a constant. But while change is inevitable, transformation is a choice—and it’s one that requires a structured, people-centric approach.
Competency Management: Your Organization’s Secret Weapon in a Competitive Market
In today’s business landscape—marked by technological disruption, evolving job roles, and heightened expectations—companies are no longer competing solely on products or services. They’re competing on people.
The Evolution of Performance Management: Latest Trends Driving Growth in 2025
As businesses gear up for the challenges of 2025, the focus is no longer just on “managing” performance—it's about enabling high performance. Traditional annual appraisals and rigid KPIs are giving way to agile, human-centric systems that foster ongoing development, accountability, and strategic alignment.
The Strategic Power of 360-Degree Feedback: Elevating Leadership in a Human-Centric Era
As organizations navigate the complex challenges of 2025—hybrid workforces, talent retention, and rapid technological shifts—traditional performance reviews are no longer enough. Leaders today require continuous, well-rounded insights to grow and lead effectively.
The Strategic Skeleton: How Your Organization Structure Delivers Results
Your business strategy charts the course, but your organization structure is the framework that carries you there. It dictates how workflows, decisions are made, and teams collaborate. A misaligned structure can cripple even the best strategies. A well-designed one? It fuels efficiency and boosts profits.
Turning Competency into Action: The Power of Behavioural Indicators in Competency Framework.
As organizations navigate the challenges of digital transformation, hybrid work models, and a workforce spanning five generations, one thing has become clear: skills alone are no longer enough.
Employees Are Accessible for Mentorship: The Secret to Keeping Them Engaged
In today's rapidly evolving scope of Talent Management best practices, mentorship is seen as a cornerstone of an effective talent development framework as they are capable to offer various models to cater and distinct within your organizational needs.
Success Story: Transforming Company’s Reward Management System For Future Growth
This success story is based on a recent Reward Management consultation project with a company within the plantation sector that Maslow has successfully completed between August to December 2022 and obtained buy-off from the Company’s Nomination and Remuneration Committee (NRC).
The Unseen Potential of Salary Benchmarking: How Fair Pay Drives Retention, Productivity, and Business Success.
In today's ever evolving and competitive job market, implementing effective salary benchmarking is crucial for attracting and retaining top talent. This process involves comparing your organization's compensation packages along with industry standards in terms of general market group, custom peer group, and customized method to ensure equality and competitiveness.
Why Employee Engagement is the Secret to Organizational Success
As we close the chapter of 2024, it’s time for organizations to reflect on employee performance and overall workforce well-being. Yet, a crucial element that often goes unnoticed in many companies is Employee Engagement.
Rethinking Pay Transparency: Why Benchmarking Beats Salary History
As organisations across Malaysia and ASEAN compete fiercely to attract and retain top talent, traditional compensation practices are under scrutiny. Salary history, a long-standing anchor in compensation decisions, is increasingly viewed as outdated and counterproductive.
Engagement Isn’t Extra — It’s Everything
Walk into any boardroom from KL Sentral to Penang’s tech parks and you’ll hear talk about AI upgrades, wage hikes, or the next marketing blitz. Strangely, the one item that still hides in plain sight is the simplest: how fired-up your people feel on Monday morning. That’s employee engagement—and it’s either lifting your numbers or quietly draining them.
Mentorship: The Business Strategy Hiding in Plain Sight
Retaining top talent today is harder than ever. In a landscape where talent is mobile and expectations are high, business leaders face a critical question: How do we grow and retain our best people without bloating the budget?
Turning Competency into Action: Why Behavioural Indicators Are the Missing Link
It’s not a hiring issue. It’s not always a training gap. More often than not, it’s a disconnect between what we say people should be good at, and what we expect them to actually do in their roles. Yet, for many businesses, competency remains an abstract concept. It’s referenced in leadership pipelines, talent reviews, and performance appraisals but rarely applied with clarity or consistency.
Malaysia’s Minimum Wage 2025: Pressure Point or Progress Catalyst?
In February 2025, the Malaysian government announced the new Minimum Wage Order, which took effect immediately, increasing the national minimum wage from RM1,500 to RM1,700.
The future of ai in workforce training & development
As the global economy becomes increasingly digital, the role of artificial intelligence (AI) in transforming workforce development has become a hot topic. We see aggressive growth in the AI space with new AI models being released constantly, from GPT, to Copilot, to Gemini, to Grok, to Llama.
Navigating the future of work: Strategies for enhancing employee relations in a hybrid work environment
As we step deeper into the post-pandemic world, organisations globally are grappling with the future of work. Remote and hybrid work models, once considered temporary solutions, have become permanent fixtures in the employment landscape.
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