28 March 2025

Pro Human Resources by Baker Tilly Staples Rodway – HR Specialists

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Is your business ready for changes to alert levels?

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The last Alert Level 3 Lockdown in Auckland has once again shown that businesses need to be prepared, at short notice, to make to significant changes to the way they work if required to move to Alert Level 3, or 4. As a result, it’s important to have a plan

Thinking change? – get the process right

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COVID-19 has caused many employers to consider making changes within their business. If you are a business owner who needs to downsize, or re-align to new market conditions, there’s an important process you need to follow if those changes have the potential to impact an employee’s employment, and while there’s

Time to take stock of employment law compliance

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Welcome to 2020 In the rush of business, it is easy to take our eye off the ball when it comes to employment law compliance. The beginning of the New Year is a good time for many businesses to take stock and review changes to employment law and how they

It’s Great to be an Employer

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I decided a celebration of the good things about being an employer was in order. These things apply whether you own your own business or you manage someone else’s business. I am often asked why anyone would want to work in HR – with a clear implication that it involves

First Impressions Count

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Organisations generally invest significant amounts of time on the recruitment process to fill vacancies, plus checking the credentials of the preferred candidate and getting them signed up. After investing all that time and money it’s important to get your new employee off to a good start. It may be timely

The art of letting go

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When the time comes for employees to make a change and resign their employment it generally occurs under a shroud of secrecy. People go to great lengths to ensure their current employer is the last to know. This isn’t an ideal scenario for any of the parties. The employee has

The Value of Longevity

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I started working in HR a long time ago – I won’t say how many years because it ages me. Back then it was very common to have benefits in employment agreements to recognise length of service. There was long service leave, salary scales with automatic increments based on service,

Show Me The Money

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After a long period of low inflation and low wage and salary rises pressure is building in the remuneration market. There are a number of factors having an impact, most of which have featured prominently in the media. The new Government’s pledge to increase the minimum wage will be good

Are You a Good Leader?

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If you are a business owner or manager you are responsible for leading others in pursuit of the organisation’s success. Whether it’s a small business with a few employees or a large entity with multiple divisions, if you are the leader of a team you are having an impact on

Don’t downplay the power of the Pen

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We talk about the pen being mightier than the sword. Of course these days it wouldn’t be a pen it would be a keyboard, but it’s the same notion of the power of the written word. We in HR are sometimes accused of being bureaucratic pen-pushers, smothering people in layers

Author Profile

Andrea Stevenson Baker Tilly Staples Rodway

Much of Andrea’s work centres on developing organisational performance through its people, recognising that the effective sourcing, growth and development of people is the critical component to an
organisation’s success. She partners with clients and prides herself on her ability to deliver a bespoke and tailored service for their people requirements.
As a skilled people practitioner with a background in Organisational Psychology, Andrea specialises in working with individuals, teams and leaders. She is accredited in a range of diagnostic tools including
psychometric assessment, 360o surveys and team profiling and is an accredited executive coach. Prior to her current role, she has worked as an Organisational Psychology Consultant and held roles in human
resources and career coaching.

andrea.stevenson@bakertillysr.nz

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