Jamelle Agbuis

A week after reporting massive profits and more spending on expanding their huge WA iron ore operations, BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto yesterday revealed they would spend around $US4 billion ($A3.75 billion) on the huge Escondida copper mine in Chile which accounts for around 8% of total annual global production.

In the book, Positivity, by Barbara Fredrickson, she discusses a fascinating research project about what makes businesses successful.

Welcome to 2012.

Promoting wellbeing in the workplace and fostering a culture of understanding has well documented benefits for the business bottom line, namely by getting the best from employees, but according to workplace psychology experts effective management remains lacking in this area.

While there's no way (and perhaps no reason) to try and prevent workplace romances, office liaisons can be tricky and awkward to manage - looking at them from a decidedly unromantic perspective may be the way to go.

Understanding the actual motivations behind resignations from an organisation is a vital first step in addressing staff turnover issues, yet this process is regularly overlooked according to a recent study.

Well, JB Hi-Fi survived a tough Christmas trading period, not to mention a "challenging" six months and lived to tell the tale, despite what some alarmists have been writing about the state of the consumer electronics sector.

Many safety professionals believe they need to reward staff to get them to behave safely.

Barbara Fredrickson is a social psychologist who has conducted extensive research into emotions and positive psychology.

Back in 1996, Donald J Eckenfelder wrote in Values-Driven Safety, that the American safety body, OSHA, mostly works through fear. It's regulation based and requires compliance or else sanctions are applied.

In the book, A Whole New Mind by Daniel Pink, he compares both the left and right hemispheres of the brain and discussed that you need to include both hemispheres when creating anything new.

Chocolate is a favorite gift and dessert for this special day. I like mine without the refined sugar.

Commodity and stock markets across Asia and Europe and the US are on alert as Greece moves back to centre stage with a vital week for the stricken country to either accept sweeping cuts and a huge new round of debt, or head for default.

In a recent online discussion with safety professionals from around the world, we discussed what types of visuals they use during their safety presentation training.

The new electric crossover is a slam-dunk because it's built on an existing platform; and because it takes all the sting out of owning an electric car -- or an SUV, for that matter.

To read some of the reports of the January economic data from China, you'd be excused for thinking that a crisis is on the way as imports and exports growth slowed sharply in January and inflation rose.

Almost a year on, after the March 11 disasters, the Japanese economy continues to be battered by the impact of the quake and tsunami, and especially the Fukushima nuclear power station crisis.

After a successful first run of the Toyota 100 Cars for Good program, the automaker is bringing it back for an encore.

Australia's December interim reporting season will dominate this week, with a host of major companies revealing their results.

Originally, sausages were made by stuffing an animal's pureed internal organs into its intestines. As sausages shifted from a locally made food to a mass-produced industrial product, it became infeasible to make all sausages with traditional intestine casings.

Ever since the age of the cassette tape the media industries across the globe have been "lobbying" and "contributing" to our politics in a way many of us do not even understand.

Sickies, low productivity, workflow interruptions … the indirect costs of poor employee health are many and varied, and it’s the employer that cops it.

A new study at the University of Liverpool suggests that climate change, driven by greenhouse-gas emissions and land-use changes, will cause patterns of malaria infection to change over the next 50 years.

It's the most benign thing in the world. In fact, it's a concept whose time has come and it will only help protect us and keep us safe.

Next month lunch rooms across Australia will come alive as workers delight in sharing the foods from their cultural background with their colleagues as part of a national campaign promoting diversity.

After several years of strong activity, the property market in Lebanon is declining sharply, mainly due to domestic political bickering and regional unrest.

The legend of Atlantis has come to Arabia and it more than lives up to the myth. On Dubai's exclusive Palm Island, on 114 acres of the Crescent, overlooking the Dubai skyline is one of the world's most incredible destinations and most extravagant attractions.

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Rio Tinto has taken the opportunity of a peak in its iron ore-driven profits to clean up its books with a massive $US8.9 billion write-down in the value of its aluminium business.