Are there risks in having your entry level employees sitting next to someone who bought Beatles’ LPs on vinyl? Or perhaps there are positives. Terry Williams has some answers.

When Jo Copeland joined Simpson Grierson as HR director, she decided it was time for some positive action. She talks to Raewyn Court about the cultural transformation the firm has undergone in the past four years.

Diversity is not just about difference. Bev Cassidy-Mackenzie looks at how businesses need to change the foundation of their initiatives to achieve real impact.

New Zealand is currently facing one of its biggest challenges in business—the ageing workforce. Organisations are well aware of this shifting demographic, so why is no one taking action? Estelle Curd examines the business challenges and solutions.

A national survey of women’s career aspirations and realities reveals new insights and provides the bones of a blueprint for positive change, says Dave Rees and Jane Parker. We just need to have the will and zeal to act on it.

We often think of conflict as negative, says Shayne Mathieson, but it’s how we handle it that can be negative. She outlines eight steps that will make your approach more positive.

We need constant new ideas to respond to a world where disruptive is the new normal, say Ruth Donde and Graham Hart. To make that happen, our leaders need to develop superior skills of innovation and the tenacity to bring the best ideas to life.

A persistent poor attitude can be hard on colleagues and on an organisation. Naoimh McSparron says there are a variety of ways employers can address bad attitude to avoid a ripple effect on others.

What’s happening on the employment front for older workers? Their employment lifeline is often a shift to a contract or interim role, says Chris Palmer. Experience is worth hanging on to, so if organisations want to tap into this skilled workforce, they need to modify their thinking.

As we go through our working lives we acquire skills that make us valuable to our organisations, colleagues and the industries we work in, says Chris Till. Why then, he asks, are people suddenly no longer considered to be valuable members of the workforce when they hit their fifties?

A long-running dispute between a librarian and school principal led to defamation proceedings and an unusual order by the High Court. Paul Robertson explains how it all came about.