Checked out a great training database today at the HRINZ Expo. Grow Me makes it easy to find and compare training available across the...

Straight 2 Work are pre-employment training programmes that WINZ develops with industry partners for people to gain skills tailored specifically...

Work & Income's Job Ops Scheme provides employers with a $5,000 subsidy to provide employment opportunities to young people with low or...

The cost of hiring the wrong person can be difficult to quantify in monetary terms but it is high. So, the introduction of trial period...

Trade Me has updated its salary guide. Click here to see national pay rates by category based on the Trade Me Jobs listing data for full time...

Mark Robotham, GM of Escalator Investment Ready Service contributed to another great article by the Two Wise Men in yesterday's DomPost. Read What...

The Restaurant Association of New Zealand has published the results of its 2010 Hospitality Industry Remuneration Survey. At a glance of 41...

A recent survey showed that just under one in five factory workers reported they’d gotten frisky on the job. UK HR consultant Reabur...

In today's news we heard about an employee fired for comments posted about a colleague on Facebook - it's a timely reminder about the increasing...

An entitlement to paid annual holidays (annual leave) is a statutory minimum condition of employment in New Zealand. Current legislation provides...

In the book, Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business, we're reminded about a Harris Interactive/Franklin Covey poll of 23,000 employees that found...

There's never many business-related programmes on TV but this season on TV One we've got an American reality TV show called Undercover Boss. The...

I managed to score myself a free preview copy of this book, Delivering Happiness by Tony Hsieh, through a twitter promotion. Another good reason...

Following on from the earlier post about focusing employees on the lifetime value of customers I got to thinking about the part that incentives...

There’s a tendancy to think that because the economy is still recovering from a recession that there’s a never-ending supply of people...

Yesterday, I was at another great Red Hot business coaching workshop. We talked a bit about the importance of understanding the Lifetime Value of...

I’m reading a book called The Leadership Code at the moment. It boils down leadership to five simple rules: 1.Shape the future
2.Make...

Peter de Jager is in town. I went to a lunchtime presentation at the HR Institute on Tuesday to hear him speak about change management. He made a...

Management is at the core of business growth and according to a recent article, NZ’s poor productivity record comes down to a lack of...

There’s a Ladder Exchange campaign taking place across New Zealand. During the month of April, anyone who brings an old or damaged ladder...

The Herald ran an article recently about a workaholic police dispatcher who earned $20,000 in overtime last year. Overtime can be a mutually...

This week I attended a research seminar hosted by the NZ Centre for SME Research at Massey University. The Centre has recently conducted some...

Netsafe has developed a free tool for creating a policy around staff using communication technology and social media sites like Facebook and...

Businesses should have a file on each employee to hold HR documentation that is specific to that employee. Here’s my suggestion for employee...

An employee was awarded $16K in the Employment Court this week after she was unjustifiably dismissed from her job during her 90 day trial period....

The Minimum Wage Increase is yesterday’s news. Most employers have some kind of pay scale in place whereby more skilled employees receive a...

A small business down in Christchurch had to fork out $12K to a former employee that they dismissed last March. You can read the article for all...

In the US there’s a well known online shoe store called Zappos. Actually it started off selling shoes, but now sells clothing, electronics...

You might have seen the news item about an upcoming employment law review. It will look specifically at the rights and obligations in certain...

When I meet with employees to write up job descriptions it can often take some time to identify what it is they are actually being paid to do....

Recession-affected companies with a need to hire employees reduce their recruitment expenses significantly by adopting an effective DIY approach...

Yesterday one of my clients shared a great philosophy with me, and now I’m going to share it with you … At their monthly staff meeting...

As with any great art, success in management is a matter of mastering the basics. Here are four simple questions that measure your grasp of the...

From November 1 texting or talking on a hand-held cellphone while driving will be illegal. Those caught face $80 fines and the loss of 20 demerit...

I often say that what works in big corporations does not necessarily work in small businesses, but sometimes there are great ideas that...

Chester Elton, author of The Carrot Principle, talks about the amount of control a manager has over the workplace environment (100%) and how to...

There’s a lot of confusion about swine flu and employers are wondering what (if anything) they need to tell their staff. Here’s a...

Commonly team building is used: to reward hard work to boost morale and/or relieve stress to utilise skills like problem solving, teamwork...

Businesses who traditionally link salary increases to performance reviews but are not in a financial position to adjust salaries this year may be...

With the current state of the economy some employers are holding back from hiring permanent employees. A recent survey found that white-collar New...

The trademe message board was home to a pretty active thread about recruitment agencies over the last couple of months. Most posts are from the...

In a recession reducing operating expenses is an important objective for small business owners. Almost every day we hear news of redundancy plans....