A Practical Guide to Reasonable Management Action for Leaders
This free guide helps leaders navigate complex people-management situations with greater confidence, fairness and clarity. Grounded in employment law principles and psychosocial risk management, it provides a practical framework for thinking through difficult decisions before acting.
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What's inside?
This practical resource brings together employment law principles, psychosocial risk management concepts and a structured decision-making framework to help leaders navigate difficult people-management situations with greater confidence.
Inside the Guide you will find:
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Practical explanations of the legal principles that underpin fair, reasonable and defensible people-management decisions.
- Information about how reasonable management action can act as a psychosocial risk control measure and reduce unnecessary harm while still allowing leaders to take necessary and appropriate management action.
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A practical six-step framework that helps leaders pause, reflect and work through difficult decisions by considering fairness, process, proportionality, consistency, broader circumstances and psychosocial risk.
Who is the Guide for?
This guide is for leaders navigating difficult people-management situations and asking questions like:
- Am I being fair?
- Am I following a reasonable process?
- Could my actions be creating unnecessary risk?
- Have I considered all relevant circumstances?
- If somebody makes a complaint, are my actions defensible?
The guide provides a practical framework for thinking these situations through. When leaders have greater clarity and confidence in their approach, employees benefit from a more consistent, fair and respectful process, while leaders spend less time second-guessing difficult decisions and worrying about getting it wrong.
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