In a highly competitive local and international market, who you hire is one of the most important strategic, Culturally Intelligent decisions any company or organisation can make.
With New Zealand’s increasing culturally diverse workforce, decisions about how we harness the talents of all who come here take on an increasingly strategic importance.
From all over the world people have come to these shores to build a better life for themselves and their families. One of our biggest challenges lies in how well our businesses and organisations make their strategic recruitment decisions to leverage the talent of ALL our people for the benefit of New Zealand as a whole, now and into the 21st century and beyond.
The case for the need to change the ways we ‘do things’ in New Zealand business is already here, and growing stronger such as with the recent “SuperDiversity Stocktake,” published in November 2015.
What practical actions can businesses and organisations take to tap into the significant talent that SuperDiversity has to offer to help them better achieve their organisation’s business goals? This article offers one suggestion.
A Rose by Any Other Name
Almost twelve years have passed since the Auckland University study ‘A Rose by Any Other Name,’ outlined some of the very real challenges newcomers to New Zealand face in getting a job.…
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