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Employee Well-being Priorities in New Zealand Businesses: A Document Analysis of Publicly Espoused Human Resource Management Policies
(Auckland University of Technology, 2026) Amin, Rayta; Morrison, Rachel
Employee well-being is increasingly presented as a strategic priority by New Zealand's largest organisations, yet little is known about what these public commitments actually encompass, how well-being is framed, or whose interests they primarily serve. This dissertation analyses HRM policy documents from all 200 organisations in the 2025 Deloitte Top 200 using Guest's (2017) HRM Wellbeing Analytic Framework and Warr's (2007) Vitamin Model. Two research questions guided the study: which dimensions of employee well-being appear in these public documents, and how is well-being positioned within HRM, strategy, and governance? All 200 organisations had at least one relevant publicly accessible document, though depth of disclosure varied widely. Documents were analysed using the CARDA framework together with reflexive thematic analysis. Three dimensions were universal: physical security, skill development, and social contact each appeared in all 200 organisations (100%). Mental health appeared in 140 organisations (70%) but was typically framed as protecting organisational performance rather than supporting employees. Cultural well-being, grounded in Māori concepts such as hauora, appeared in only 58 organisations (29%), highlighting a notable gap given Aotearoa New Zealand's legislative and demographic context. Overall, 60% of organisations framed well-being primarily as beneficial for organisational performance, 31.5% valued employee flourishing in its own right, and a smaller group presented well-being mainly as a legal compliance issue. The study makes five contributions: Warr's model reveals a gap between the conditions that support employee well-being and what organisations publicly disclose; Guest's distinction between mutual and organisational gains holds well as a classification but many documents blend both registers; board-level oversight was associated with stronger public commitments to well-being; the model struggles to capture the relational and collective nature of hauora; and combining CARDA with reflexive thematic analysis proved effective for analysing employee well-being across a large document set. Together, these findings provide practical guidance for HR practitioners, policymakers, and organisational leaders seeking more authentic and culturally grounded well-being practices in Aotearoa New Zealand.
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.......Same as it ever was........
(Intellect, 2026-03-20) Tapuni, Nooroa
Same as it Ever Was explores the persistence of racial stereotypes through AI-generated imagery and historical dialogue. Drawing on video stills from the moving image work peaches (2023), the project exposes AI generated imagery that replicate societal biases embedded into the training data of technological systems. These images are paired with a remix of James Baldwin and Margaret Mead's seminal conversation, Rap on Race (1970), bridging historical and contemporary discussions on race and identity. The work engages in transcoding—reinterpreting cultural signals and materials—by transforming historical dialogues and visual tropes. Through this interplay of past and present, analog and digital, Same as it Ever Was examines the cyclical nature of racial discourse and the enduring impact of systemic bias questioning the relationship between technological innovation and cultural continuity.
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PUNCT-ing
(Intellect, 2026-03-20) Waerea, Layne; Preston, Julieanna
PUNCT-ing is a collaborative creative project that performs various punctuation marks plus the space bar, which are found on a common English language computer keyboard. Each keyboard mark or performance video offers a gestural interpretation to the symbol's normative use and definition, in essence, to amplify what the punctuation mark denotes, to expand its application with regard to colonisation and, importantly, to bring what is abstract to corporeality. That reality is far from singular; this collaboration brings together two performance artists each with a different history, heritage, body, and orientation to language, space and writing that imbues the performance videos with a diversity akin to the book Performing Punctuation's purpose and concept.
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Pito to Pou: An Artist-Mother's Guide to Cutting the Cord
(Auckland University of Technology, 2026) Joe, Amy; Redmond, Monique; O'Hara, Emily
Mother Practice, as I have termed it, lives in between the tensions of its foundations and supports. My Art Practice investigates the balance and imbalance of these vital constructs through a whakapapa lens, by using a vocabulary of gathered, gifted, inherited, made and made-for-this-moment archives within sculptural installation. Through a methodology of engaging with technologies and techniques at the margins of my experience, my Art Practice holds a mirror to Mother Practice, where growth and change in children compel mothers to repeatedly work at the edges of knowing. So, if the fertile ground within which I dig down to make my foundation is the profane and sacred ground of Mother, then the resulting matrescence through which I’ve grown makes this foundation strong. If, in the levelling of my foundation, I discovered what was of vital importance, then this sculptural installation project is a distillation of those discoveries. If the weight that my foundation can bear is the fracture and mamae resulting from my birth, then may the load now be lessened for my daughters.
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Smartphone App Delivery of a Just-in-time Adaptive Intervention for Adult Gamblers (Gambling Habit Hacker): Protocol for a Microrandomized Trial
(JMIR Publications, 2022-07-26) Rodda, Simone N; Bagot, Kathleen L; Merkouris, Stephanie S; Youssef, George; Lubman, Dan I; Thomas, Anna C; Dowling, Nicki A
BACKGROUND: People with gambling problems frequently report repeated unsuccessful attempts to change their behavior. Although many behavior change techniques are available to individuals to reduce gambling harm, they can be challenging to implement or maintain. The provision of implementation support tailored for immediate, real-time, individualized circumstances may improve attempts at behavior change. OBJECTIVE: We aimed to develop and evaluate a Just-In-Time Adaptive Intervention (JITAI) for individuals who require support to adhere to their gambling limits. JITAI development is based on the principles of the Health Action Process Approach with delivery, in alignment with the principles of self-determination theory. The primary objective was to determine the effect of action- and coping planning compared with no intervention on the goal of subsequently adhering to gambling expenditure limits. METHODS: Gambling Habit Hacker is delivered as a JITAI providing in-the-moment support for adhering to gambling expenditure limits (primary proximal outcome). Delivered via a smartphone app, this JITAI delivers tailored behavior change techniques related to goal setting, action planning, coping planning, and self-monitoring. The Gambling Habit Hacker app will be evaluated using a 28-day microrandomized trial. Up to 200 individuals seeking support for their own gambling from Australia and New Zealand will set a gambling expenditure limit (ie, goal). They will then be asked to complete 3 time-based ecological momentary assessments (EMAs) per day over a 28-day period. EMAs will assess real-time adherence to gambling limits, strength of intention to adhere to goals, goal self-efficacy, urge self-efficacy, and being in high-risk situations. On the basis of the responses to each EMA, participants will be randomized to the control (a set of 25 self-enactable strategies containing names only and no implementation information) or intervention (self-enactable strategy implementation information with facilitated action- and coping planning) conditions. This microrandomized trial will be supplemented with a 6-month within-group follow-up that explores the long-term impact of the app on gambling expenditure (primary distal outcome) and a range of secondary outcomes, as well as an evaluation of the acceptability of the JITAI via postintervention surveys, app use and engagement indices, and semistructured interviews. This trial has been approved by the Deakin University Human Research Ethics Committee (2020-304). RESULTS: The intervention has been subject to expert user testing, with high acceptability scores. The results will inform a more nuanced version of the Gambling Habit Hacker app for wider use. CONCLUSIONS: Gambling Habit Hacker is part of a suite of interventions for addictive behaviors that deliver implementation support grounded in lived experience. This study may inform the usefulness of delivering implementation intentions in real time and in real-world settings. It potentially offers people with gambling problems new support to set their gambling intentions and adhere to their limits. TRIAL REGISTRATION: Australian New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry ACTRN12622000497707; www.anzctr.org.au/Trial/Registration/TrialReview.aspx?id=383568. INTERNATIONAL REGISTERED REPORT IDENTIFIER (IRRID): DERR1-10.2196/38919.