Welcome to my regular column entitled "My Light Bulb Moment". This series highlights a "blinding flash of insight" business, cultural and sports leaders have had in their career, and how this changed their lives forever.
If we ripped up the wage floor, would pay for low-skill workers actually fall all that much? It's hard to say.
Giant listed landlord Goodman Property Trust pushed up annual after-tax profit 72.1 per cent, making $134.1 million in the year to March 31.
Studies show that diversity is a good thing in the workplace - it brings better ideas, more creativity and freshness into a business, it also helps organisations understand and work in different markets.
A union body leading prosecutions over the deaths of forestry workers has applauded a coroner for tackling the problem, which it described as unsustainable and intolerable.
Two British health researchers are gearing up to challenge New Zealanders' unusually high tolerance of what many countries consider a social evil - inequality.
Web-based tests have become a key gateway to landing a job, a potent screening tool that can effectively bump a CV to the top of a manager's pile.
Think of your manager as your number one customer, says psychologist Keith McGregor. It's a concept most people haven't thought of when they complain "my boss never listens to me" or "my boss takes no interest in what I'm doing".
Sorry, but the careers literature starts to define you as an older worker around the age of 45 years - but in some ways it's a bonus because it's a strong message that it's time to rethink and revision your career.
Inspired by Sheryl Sandberg's best-seller, Lean In, I decided to form a group of like-minded professional women who were interested in talking about career advancement.
Advice for women in leadership from Brenda Freeman of DreamWorks Animation.
Karla L. Miller gives advice on navigating the modern workplace
Employment grew strongly in the first three months of the year but so did the supply of workers, leaving unemployment unchanged and wage pressures subdued.
SkyCity CFO James Burrell, who had been seen as a potential leader, has resigned for family reasons and will return to the UK.
What happens if the payroll services company which the employer used for paying its employees failed to submit my opt-out form?
Chief executive Mark Powell has dared say what many others must surely think, but few are prepared to publicly utter: that executive pay is well into the realm of the ridiculous, writes Dita De Boni.
A full five years before their first New Zealand Superannuation payment kicks in, most Kiwi employees are good and ready to down tools, hang up aprons, return company-provided laptops and take a permanent holiday from work.
Kiwi tech entrepreneur Derek Handley is on the hunt for a "right-hand" in New Zealand to manage investments and launch ventures.
Fifty-one workers were killed while they were doing their jobs last year, the Council of Trade Unions says.
All good sporting careers come to an end. But what happens to athletes who reach their mid-30s and need to find a post-sport work career?
New Zealand is among the minority of developed countries where the tax burden on wages has lightened over the past three years.
Career Coach Joyce E.A. Russell went online last week to take questions on etiquette in the workplace.
Research suggests there is no "magic number" for chief executive tenure in this country, with the most poorly performing companies having a mix of short and long-serving bosses.
Procrastinators everywhere should take heart in gaining what could be the best excuse yet for their thumb-twiddling: blaming it on Mum and Dad.
Women earn less than men because they are seen as pushovers when they don't negotiate hard and are seen as "ball-breakers" when they do, a psychologist says.
Kiwi women should "up the attack" on breaking into top executive ranks and boardroom roles rather than being discouraged by lack of success.
A counselling client of mine "Allie" had just been promoted at her law firm. I asked if she was excited.
Welcome to the first of my regular series entitled My Light-Bulb Moment.
Go into many organisations and you might hear people say "I don't trust my co-workers to do what they say they will," or "This place really lacks trust among colleagues."
Heritage Hotel Management has appointed Marcus Keenan as the new general manager of Heritage Auckland.
Agricultural chemicals manufacturer Nufarm will close its plant in Auckland, with as many as 59 jobs to go in move to Australia.
The pay gap between the highest and lowest earners is getting wider. It's a trend that, says one researcher, can be traced back to the 1980s.