A well-run, on-target meeting is a key form of business communication. The key is good planning and follow through, writes Robyn Pearce.

COMMENT: How many excuses have you invented to avoid saying that two-letter word?

COMMENT: It isn't that rank itself is the problem. What is an issue is the abuse of rank or power in the workplace.

COMMENT: What great places or organisations do you know that can benefit from our 'junk'?

COMMENT: No one wants to see a worker, colleague or friend hurt. No boss wants to have to tell a family member that their loved one is in hospital or worse still, won't be coming home ever again, writes Grant McDonald.

COMMENT: Robyn Pearce talks three ways to declutter your life.

The new Health and Safety at Work Act, which comes into force today, expressly provides for mental health issues in an increasingly stressed-out and competitive workplace, writes Mai Chen.

Forest owners could have been liable for fines of up to $3 million if worker Blair Palmer had been killed by a falling tree today rather than last week.

Learning new things in the workplace can contribute to a change in your career narrative, discovers Joanna Mathers

Career Coach Joyce E.A. Russell offers tips on how to identify signs of workplace bullying and what you can do about it.

Expert says universal basic income would have minimal drain on tax system

The changes made to the Health and Safety Act were made for all the right reasons out of the Pike River Mine disaster but if the same rules prevent kids from climbing trees, what's really been achieved?

There is always room for new thinking and fresh ways to change things up. A couple of Labour's ideas around the future of work aren't half bad. I'm impressed.

For decades, companies have craved an alternative to top-down management. Yet moving beyond the corporate ladder has proved challenging.

Negative attitudes and perceptions of discrimination against part-time employees remain strong.

Boards need to move from being reactive to proactive, says Simon Arcus, chief executive of the Institute of Directors.

Being the lawyer who represented the NZ-based Pike River mine directors and chief executive following the 2010 tragedy, Stacey Shortall knows better than most the nuances and legislative minefields attached to health and safety issues

Better workplace relationships and risk reduction go hand in hand, a safety expert tells Helen Twose.

Women working for Amazon in the US earned 99.9 cents for every $1 men earned doing the same jobs in 2015, the company said.

COMMENT: Our feelings are our signpost, writes Robyn Pearce.

Workplace lying is a two-way street. The damaging top-down lies from management and the equally destructive bottom-up lies from staff.

A small but growing number of firms in the United States are helping ease the pain of student loan debt for their millennial employees.

Aviva group chief executive Mark Wilson talks the best values to bring to business.

COMMENT: When you go on holiday, are you likely to add a couple of extra items 'just in case' you need them?

The practice relinquishing bonuses has become more popular among CEOs leading ompanies headed into darkness. The hope is it will keep jittery workers from jumping ship. Does it work?

According to a new report from career website Glassdoor, physicians, lawyers, and pharmacy managers had the top salaries in 2015.

Prisoner advocates blast the legislation which was designed to assist former convicts gain employment, writes Paul Charman

A person understood to be a forestry worker has been killed in an incident at a forestry block in Tinui.

Changes in the workplace since the 1970s have hit men much harder than women, Justin Fox writes.