Tax inequity in New Zealand

Interestingly, in Aotearoa New Zealand, the very rich don't pay much tax.  Why do I say that? Because reports show that 19.5% is the ave...

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Equality versus Equity

Our ability to be 'normal' in society is often affected -impacted - by our inherited factors. If we grow up in lower socio-econom...

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Hofstede's cultural dimensions

Culture is a shared societal system of values and norms, which - when taken together - are a "design for living" (Rao, 2008, p. 30...

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Cultural humility

In New Zealand we have a  bicultural  society, which does not mean what biculturalism traditionally means; instead here it refers to the two...

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What is DEI?

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion is known as DEI (Karakhan et al., 2021). The terms of diversity and inclusion represent the "extent to ...

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The diversity of Aotearoa

It is time to update some of Aotearoa's diversity statistics (original posts are  here ) which show the make up of Aotearoa New Zealand...

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Ethnicity and affiliation

It is a funny word, 'race': each time I read it, it brings me up short. It implies that we humans are all from different 'race...

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What is a choice?

A friend of mine was on a flight from Tokyo to Beijing, just pre-Covid, and found himself sitting next to a young Chinese woman. As he was w...

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Career minorities

While I have posted on this before ( here ), it is probably worth restating. New Zealand is made up of a lot of minority groups: 15% Mao...

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Racist as f***

In April this year, Taika Waititi was interviewed by British magazine pop culture magazine Dazed and Confused, and said that he found that...

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The origins of Pale Male and Stale

I got to wondering where this phrase bandied about when diversity is mentioned, 'pale, male and stale', comes from. It is sexist a...

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McKinsey on Diversity

Every few years, McKinsey gets their clients to participate in diversity research. This year's research is a joint-venture between Lea...

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So what is national culture?

Up to the eighteenth century, we humans were mostly under the heel of dynastic rulers, who looked after their own geographic territories -...

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A tip for career women

Recently I read an article by Ashley Stahl, on what she has observed tends to prevent women advancing within their careers. Ashley says...

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NZ's Institute of Director's LinkedIn Group

Felicity Caird, the Exec of New Zealand's Institute of Director's Governance Leadership Centre, posted an interesting article link...

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NZ workforce diversity: what should it look like?

( Consedine, 2012 ) I have been wondering what workforce diversity would really look like in New Zealand. So I have been pulling some st...

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Cultural Fit and Organisations

(Young, 2015, after SearchCIO, n.d.) I read an article by Derek Loosvelt recently, which discussed the use of cultural fit as a hiring s...

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