Reasons to consider diversifying your workplace
Considering diversifying your workforce?
Top 5 reasons to consider diversifying your workforce:
Ngā take matua e 5 me whai whakaaro kia whakarerekēhia te taiao mahi:
- Choosing from a bigger pool of people helps you find the best person for the job, meaning that you waste less time and money hiring the wrong person.
- Diversity in the workplace means different ideas on how to approach a task and find solutions to problems.
- Increased customer satisfaction. Having diverse employees gives customers a choice given women make up 80 percent of all home purchasing decisions.
- Diverse teams are more productive which improves your bottom line.
- Being a woman in a male-dominated industry takes drive and determination – great attributes that you want in a worker.
Read here to find out more about hiring a female apprentice: https://women.govt.nz/sites/public_files/Need%20an%20apprentice%20factsheet.pdf
An Empowering Internet Safety Guide for Women
There are many more women working in non-traditional industries and are sharing their story loud and proud on social media. Unfortunately, there are also people who don’t like change and can hide behind the anonymity of a computer screen to make abusive and upsetting comments. Help keep your wahine toa safe online - share with them this useful overview of internet safety for women.
There are many more women working in non-traditional industries and are sharing their story loud and proud on social media. Unfortunately, there are also people who don’t like change and can hide behind the anonymity of a computer screen to make abusive and upsetting comments. Help keep your wahine toa safe online - share with them this useful overview of internet safety for women.
BCITO Snapshot of Women in Construction
BCITO has released a booklet giving a snapshot of women in the Construction industry and where some of the barriers are to getting more women on the tools.
The Built Environment sector has a long-standing culture of on-job training and education via apprenticeship models. However, in an era of growth and skills shortages, can the sector afford to ignore the potential of over half the New Zealand workforce?
Where are the female leaders in New Zealand’s construction industry?
More women than ever are joining New Zealand’s booming construction industry with the number of women in construction doubling to 17 per cent over the last 15 years but this increase hasn’t resulted in more women in leadership roles within the industry.
Find out more about the gender imbalance and ways to address it
Growing your trades workforce: how to attract women to your jobs
Ministry for Women have put together a handbook that provides practical advice to employers on how to attract women, and how to find women for their trade jobs.
Making it work with women: increasing workplace diversity
Want to improve the gender balance in your workplace but don’t know where to start? Ministry for Women have analysed a variety of sectors and put together a short overview of how to make organisations more diverse.
Diversity works: An employer perspective of having female tradies on the team
Glenn Munro from Properly Plastered in Christchurch shares his thoughts on why having women on his team works.
Have you got a sexual harassment policy in place?
Every company, regardless of the gender balance, should have a sexual harassment policy in place. It makes it easier to talk to your team about where the lines are if they have been laid out beforehand.
New Zealand company Automio can create a customised policy for your business right now using their free Sexual Harassment Policy Bot