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We need to change more than pay for executives to do better

  • Written by: Natalia Nikolova, Senior Lecturer in Management, University of Technology Sydney
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The pay of executives of a company, whether in salary, bonuses or other types of remuneration, is usually justified as an incentive to improve the financial performance of a company. This has led to ever more complex performance packages with increasing percentage of variable, performance-based payments.

But what is increasingly evident is that...

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Refusing to play the race game

  • Written by: Chelsea Bond, Senior Lecturer, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Unit (ATSIS Unit), The University of Queensland
imageAdam Goodes training at the SCG in 2015.David Gray/Reuters

In this AFL Grand Final week, amid all the fanfare that surrounds the Sydney Swans’ third final in five years, I’m reminded of the difference that just one year makes. It was this time last year that the Swans (having failed to win a finals match) farewelled one of their...

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How our brain controls movement and makes new connections when parts are damaged

  • Written by: Ross Cunnington, Professor, Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland
imageOur brain’s ability to strengthen or make new connections to adapt and change allows us to acquire new skills.from shutterstock.com

The brain is key to our existence, but there’s a long way to go before neuroscience can truly capture its staggering capacity. For now though, our Brain Control series explores what we do know about the...

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Donald Trump's 'new civil rights agenda' talk is just unhelpful noise

  • Written by: Simon Rice, Professor of Law; Director of Law Reform and Social Justice, Australian National University
imageLoose and reckless rights talk increasingly characterises populist politics.Reuters/Jonathan Ernst, CC BY-NC

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump recently:

… called for a new civil rights agenda that includes the right to a safe community, the right to a great education and the right to a secure job.

The call is simplistic and...

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