Employee versus contractor

While in 2024 220,000 New Zealanders were working multiple jobs, today - driven by the rising gig economy and cost-of-living pressures - nea...

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An HRM HRD metaphor

While I often consider the human resource management field as a pie (see the diagram below from Workhuman, 2022), I also consider it as a co...

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Virtual onboarding

Covid-19 changed our corporate practices, almost without notice. I was thinking recently about how many things suddenly had to change during...

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Quick HRM map

The field of human resource is complex, today forming a broad system which supports line managers with the tools they need to first develop ...

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The nature of the employment relationship

When considering how employee voice operates in organisations, we must first be clear about what the 'employment relationship' is. A...

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Employee voice and participation

The employee voice provides the "opportunity to have a say" within workplaces (Mowbury et al., 2015, p. 385), but is formally defi...

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Workplace Flexibility

Workplace flexibility has been defined as "the opportunity to adjust the where, when and how of work", which "encompasses the...

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What is HRD?

HRM sometimes seems designed and implemented purely for improving organisational performance with little regard for the outcomes for individ...

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Some HRM history

HRM brings together a range of managerial approaches to the employment relationship. Beginning with ‘psychological assessment’ and the human...

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The changing role of HRM

The focus of Human Resource departments is often thought of as "to pick and maintain the right person for the job" in a "one-...

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Reframing VUCA

Human Resource Management (HRM) may be defined as "the strategies, policies, plans, processes and practices which an organisation uses ...

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