Our research centre

To advocate for the growth, development, and wellbeing of the Māori workforce in Aotearoa.

• Highlight and advocate for workplaces to become well places – where Kaimahi hauora is flourishing.
• Provide insight into how workplaces become well places – including research in, but not limited to, governance and leadership values, indigenous wellbeing, diversity, and inclusion, all of which are applied to the unique organisational landscape and workplaces in Aotearoa New Zealand.
• Foster knowledge and research on the skill, workforce development and future of work issues facing the Māori workforce across a range of industries and occupations.
• Develop insights that equip and provide a sustainable and culturally informed leadership body of knowledge, to ensure workplaces are well places for generations to come.
• To disseminate research that focuses on Kaimahi hauora in today’s complex workplaces.
• To seek and foster connections within our faculty to pursue research into workplace wellbeing and sustainability.

Education

• Development, training, consultation and professional development services for Māori development in the workplace.
• Collaborating with other research institutions and centres including Aotearoa Centre for Leadership and Governance and Aotearoa Centre for Enterprising Women as well as those others within and outside University of Auckland, dedicated to improve Māori workplace development.

Other areas of connection

• Host, design and deliver mini-conferences, symposiums, events, panels, and seminars for internal and external audiences in these areas.
• Host, design and deliver professional education to support workforce development as needed.
• Craft and assemble research and funding proposals for future research focusing on Māori workforce development.