Earlier this year, Worklogic were delighted to release the fourth edition of our book, Workplace Investigations (2024), a practical and definitive Australian guide for HR professionals.
Workplace Investigations (2024) takes you through step-by-step, how to conduct a procedurally fair, thorough, impartial, and legally compliant investigation process.
Since the first edition of Worklogic’s Workplace Investigations book was published over 10 years ago in 2013, the landscape of the modern Australian workplace has evolved considerably. With the rapid pace of change, organisations can often be left scrambling to keep up with developments in their own procedures and practices for appropriate and timely response to complaints of workplace behaviour and conduct.
This book is a valuable and easy-to-use reference for those people working in the complaints handling space.
What’s New?
The fourth edition of Workplace Investigations (2024) has been updated and expanded with new material on:
- whistle-blower protections,
- interview techniques,
- digital evidence,
- sexual misconduct and
- trauma-informed practice
The new edition includes sample case highlights from contemporary legal decisions.
Workplace Investigations (2024) also incorporates valuable new inclusions about the changes arising from the #MeToo movement, through to the Respect@Work Sexual Harassment Inquiry Report from 2020 and the subsequent impacts on workplace investigations.
Given the growing focus on health and wellbeing at work, Workplace Investigations (2024) maintains its exploration of personal and organisational well-being. This includes practical tips and advice on how an investigator might best look after their own wellbeing, while maintaining focus, professionalism, and boundaries throughout the investigation, organically building confidence and resilience along the way.
A brand new chapter on Organisational Policies on Workplace Investigations provides thorough guidance on what should and shouldn’t be included in policies related to complaints handling and workplace investigations. The importance of a robust framework for complaints handling is examined, with helpful advice to avoid undermining or compromising an investigation, or the principles of an investigation.
Worklogic’s Workplace Investigations (2024) contains templates, checklists, sample correspondence and other bonus resources which are also available for readers as electronic downloads for ease of use. Here’s what else you can expect to from the book’s ‘how-to’s’:
· Judge when an investigation is required
· Scope and plan and investigation appropriately
· Identify, collect, preserve and analyse evidence
· Make findings of fact in a procedurally fair way
· Assess any wrongdoing against your organisation’s conduct standards, including bullying, harassment, discrimination, fraud, and business integrity breached
· Determine what further steps your organisation should take to improve working relationships, manage risks and ensure future compliance
· Understand the key elements of procedural fairness, managing the emotional impact of the investigation, ‘high conflict personalities’, and how the organisation can use the lessons learned from the investigation to manage risks and improve workplace culture.
What are people saying:
“The conduct of workplace investigations is an important but still developing practice in Australia. Done well, they can assist employers to make informed and appropriate decisions about workplace issues and complaint. Workplace Investigations by Worklogic is a well-researched, sound and practical guide. “
– MATHIAS HERMANSEN
-Director, Corporate Innovation, Verisure
About the authors:
Worklogic is the Australian market leader in workplace dispute resolution. Our reputation is based on our high quality, reliable, fair and robust workplace investigations. Over the past 15 years, Worklogic has conducted more than 2000 investigations for large and small employers in the private, public and not for profit sectors, and also for legal firms.
The authors, Worklogic Directors Jodie Fox, Jason Clark, Rose Bryant-Smith and Grevis Beard have collectively conducted and supervised thousands of workplace investigations and in this text, they share their wealth of experience, depth of knowledge and analytical rigour.
How to get your copy:
To celebrate the release of the fourth edition, we are currently offering a 10% discount when purchasing online. To grab your copy of Worklogic’s Workplace Investigations, follow the link on our website and use the code WORK10. We have paperback, eBook and bundle packs now available.
