From Newborns to Nana: Rethinking Organisational Support for a Multigenerational Workforce
- Start: 10:00am
- End: 11:30am
- Duration: 1 Hours 30 Min
- Category: Network Events
- Region: Auckland
- AUT WF Building, Room TBC
- 42 Wakefield Street
- Auckland CBD 1010
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Today's workforce spans multiple generations of caregiving. Employees are raising young children, supporting ageing parents, or helping care for grandchildren - often juggling more than one of these roles at once, alongside their careers. Yet most workplace wellbeing policies are designed around a single life stage, leaving a gap between how organisations think about support and how employees actually live.
Professor Candice Harris (AUT) and Professor Jarrod Haar (Massey University) draw on their research into organisational support and work-life balance across NZ employees to challenge HR practitioners to rethink what genuine support looks like across the full caregiving lifecycle. How we support employees at every life stage will shape who stays and who thrives.
Questions this seminar could raise for HR practitioners:
• Do our leave and flexibility policies assume caregiving stops once children grow up?
• Are we tracking or even aware of how many of our older employees are also carers - for grandchildren, ageing parents, or both?
• Could broadening "family-friendly" policies help us retain experienced staff and address skills shortages?
• Are our wellbeing communications and initiatives implicitly speaking only to parents of young children?
• Do organisations adequately resource work-life balance support?
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Presenter Details
Professor Candice Harris
Candice is a Professor of Management at Auckland University of Technology whose research and publications focus on careers, work, and employment experiences. Her industry-engaged research includes the Strengthening Futures (2025) and Rebound and Roads Forward (2024) reports, which examined tourism and hospitality employment in New Zealand for the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE). She has held leadership roles including Head of Department and Associate Dean Academic. Candice serves on the Te Manahua New Zealand Universities Women in Leadership Steering Group, is a qualified executive coach, and has received AUT Vice-Chancellor’s Awards for Diversity and for Excellence in Postgraduate Supervision. She also co-chairs the Council of Australasian Tourism and Hospitality Education Fellows and is a member of the Global Hospitality Research Alliance.
Professor Jarrod Haar
Dr Jarrod Haar is Dean’s Chair and Professor of Management and Māori Business at Massey University (New Zealand). He has Māori tribal affiliations of Ngāti Maniapoto and Ngāti Mahuta. He publishes broadly on employees and organisations (especially Māori) including work-life balance, teams, and HRM systems. He has won industry, best-paper awards, and multiple research grants ($7.7m individually). He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand Te Apārangi. He has 185 journal articles and 150+ keynotes/invited presentations. He is a frequent media commentator including 110+ TV appearances. He is ranked in the Elsevier World Top 2% of Scientists worldwide [by citations] (since 2021).
Sponsor Details
Auckland University of Technology
With thanks to the AUT Business School
At AUT Business School, we understand that business plays an integral role in economic and social wellbeing. Our programmes and extracurricular opportunities help students develop the mindset, knowledge and skills to make a positive social impact. Our research addresses important societal challenges, and collaborative engagement with our external stakeholders in business, the professions, government and the community is at the heart of our research endeavours. AUT Business School is among an elite group of business schools around the world – we’ve been awarded the prestigious EQUIS and AACSB International accreditations.
