About this research
What unique Human Resource Management (HRM) practices are offered in Aotearoa workplaces that directly engage in a positive way with Māori employees?
What do these look like? How are the perceived (and received) by Maori and non-Māori employees? Do they positively shape attitudes as we might expect - and if not, why not? What are the barriers and drivers behind them?
There is a strong international literature around the use of Human Resource Management (HRM) practices and how organisations that utilise these enjoy better performance, and workers report stronger attitudes, behaviours, and superior wellbeing. For example, organisations that provide greater training and development and use performance incentives, are more likely to be organisations that perform better. The theory behind how these mechanisms work is well established and indeed, this theory has been used to understand the potential benefits of other organisational decisions on Maori employee attitudes.
Despite there being empirical evidence based on New Zealand studies, there has not been a study of how these practices might be shaped specifically by Maori culture. For example, do Māori organisations engage such HRM practices differently? Do they have a stronger whānau focus? Do they focus more on the collective and specify policies around teamwork? Do non-Māori organisations do anything different if their workforce is highly concentrated with Māori? While Māori make up 13% of the Aotearoa/New Zealand workforce we simply do not know the extent that Māori and non-Māori organisations engage in HRM practices.
The present study will conduct case studies on four Māori organisations and two non-Māori organisations that have a high proportion of Māori employees, to gain an understanding of the rationales behind why/why not. We are interested in organisations adopting and providing Māori specific HRM practices and these will be captured through the kaupapa Māori approach of interviews/case studies.
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Professor Jarrod Haar
Ngāti Maniapoto, Ngāti Mahuta
Auckland University of Technology (AUT)
Professor Jarrod Haar (PhD) is a Professor of Human Resource Management in the Department of Management and has tribal…
Professor Jarrod Haar
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Kairangahau · Researchers
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Professor Jarrod Haar
Professor Jarrod Haar
Professor Jarrod Haar (PhD) is a Professor of Human Resource Management in the Department of Management and has tribal affiliations of Ngati Maniapoto and Ngati Mahuta. In 2018, Professor Haar was appointed as a Member of the Marsden Fund Council and is the Convenor of the Marsden Economics and Human Behavioural Sciences panel. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand Te Apārangi (2020), a Research Fellow of the Australia & New Zealand Academy of Management (since 2012), and Chartered Fellow of the Human Resource Institute of New Zealand (HRINZ). He won the inaugural HRINZ HR…
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He oranga whānau: mahi ngātahi: Whānau livelihoods within the context of work and Māori economies of wellbeing. These groundbreaking works celebrate Māori futures rooted in kaupapa Māori values while fostering pathways for responsible relationships, meaningful lives, and flourishing Indigenous wellbeing economies. By emphasising the central role of whānau, these publications provide actionable insights and inspiration for transformative change in economic and cultural systems.
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Professor Chellie Spiller
Professor Chellie Spiller
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Professor Jarrod Haar
Professor Jarrod Haar
Professor Jarrod Haar (PhD) is a Professor of Human Resource Management in the Department of Management and has tribal affiliations of Ngati Maniapoto and Ngati Mahuta. In 2018, Professor Haar was appointed as a Member of the Marsden Fund Council and is the Convenor of the Marsden Economics and Human Behavioural Sciences panel. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand Te Apārangi (2020), a Research Fellow of the Australia & New Zealand Academy of Management (since 2012), and Chartered Fellow of the Human Resource Institute of New Zealand (HRINZ). He won the inaugural HRINZ HR… -
Dr John Reid
Dr John Reid
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Associate Professor Jason Paul Mika
Associate Professor Jason Paul Mika
Jason is Tūhoe, Ngāti Awa, Whakatōhea, Ngāti Kahungunu. He is an associate professor at Te Raupapa Waikato Management School and Te Kotahi Research Institute, University of Waikato, in Hamilton, New Zealand. Jason’s research, teaching, writing, and practice centres on Indigenous business philosophy in multiple sites, sectors, and scales, including Indigenous trade, tourism, agribusiness, and the marine economy. In 2015, Jason completed a PhD in Māori entrepreneurship at Massey University. In 2019, Jason was a Fulbright-Ngā Pae o Te Māramatanga senior scholar at Stanford University’s Woods… -
Dr Matthew Rout
Dr Matthew Rout
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Dr Amohia Boulton
Dr Amohia Boulton
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