The Warehouse Group Ltd. Seminar on Organisational Leadership and Diversity
Collab Launch Seminar on Organisational Leadership and Diversity at The Warehouse, Auckland. Explore The Business of Inclusion through the lens of a Living Wage. Join the discussion on fostering diversity in leadership roles.
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MPOWER-The Warehouse Group Ltd Collaboration Launch A Seminar on ORGANISATIONAL LEADERSHIP AND DIVERSITY Tuesday May 5th, 2015 The Warehouse North Shore Auckland The Business of Inclusion: Through a Living Wage? Prof. Stuart C. Carr End Poverty & Inequality Cluster (EPIC) Industrial & Organisational Psychology Programme Massey University, Auckland Acknowledgements: Vice-Chancellor s Discretionary Research Fund, Massey University Programming Analyst Mr. Harvey Jones, School of Psychology
Some Global and Local CONTEXT UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) SDG 8 Decent Work Agenda (ILO), e.g., Inclusion Living Wage debate, hot topic! E.g., in USA, UK, NZ, Colombia, Cambodia, Papua New Guinea Often framed around wellbeing and welfare But also, increasingly, as having Business Case A Living, LEADING Exemplar: your CAREER RETAILER WAGE - Ka pai!
Where might WE add some value? First, SOME APPLIED THEORY: - Poverty Traps, Capability theory, Diminishing Marginal Returns Income Tomorrow And CAPABILITY? LIVING WAGE THRESHOLD? Income Today Source: Carr, S. C., Parker, J., Arrowsmith, J., & Watters, P (2015). The Living Wage: Theoretical integration and an applied research agenda.ILO s International Labour Review, in press.
What more could applied research possibly bring? E.g., Ongoing activity: WageingWell (Phase 1, Time 1, soon Time 2!) Consultative process (with unions, firms, stakeholders) Online mobile-assisted survey experience Very preliminary still in process; 1st glimpses emerging from Wave1 Sample biases modally: twin-occupants 0 kids, 1 F/T fixed income, women, age 51- 65 yrs., professional, large public org. employer Incomes: Household mode = $100-119K; individually mean $65K, hourly $26.44 However: N = 1,185, well-distributed geographically across wider New Zealand:- Measures: Empowerment, Job Satisfaction, Occ. Pride & Work Justice Plus: Life Satisfaction, Wellbeing (physical and mental), & Community Participation Work-life Balance
Where could we go with a collaboration? E.g., with a large major organization With global supply chains (http://www.fairwageguide.org/) Systematically, over time, assess the living dynamics of a living wage initiative Continuing to center around shared prosperity Inclusion Decent Work, i.e., Human & Organisational Capability ???
