by Wendy Macphail | Apr 11, 2017 | Accord News, Book Reviews, Human Resources, Positive Pyschology
Compassion may be defined as recognising that others are suffering and committing to help them. Researchers believe that we evolved to be compassionate because it helped us survive. Groups who were most altruistic and compassionate appeared stronger and kept each...
by Wendy Macphail | Mar 7, 2017 | Accord News, Human Resources, Positive Pyschology
“Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die”. If you are holding on to a grudge at work, you are likely to be placing your health at risk, decreasing your productivity, increasing your stress and increasing the amount of negative emotions...
by Wendy Macphail | Feb 1, 2017 | Book Reviews, Employment Law, Human Resources, Positive Pyschology
Thirty percent of our lives will be spent working. Why not make this thirty percent work for us? We all have choices. What we put into something is what we get out of it. What we focus on, is what we will create. Simple as that. What is the down side of using time at...
by Wendy Macphail | Apr 1, 2015 | Employment Law
On 2 March 2015 the Human Rights Review Tribunal awarded Karen Hammond over $168,000.00 in damages from her former employer, New Zealand Credit Union Baywide (NZCU), following a Facebook breach of privacy and “loss of dignity”. Karen left NZCU in March 2012. Five days...
by Wendy Macphail | Mar 2, 2015 | Employment Law
On 16 February 2015 Arthur Britton, director of Britton Housemovers Ltd (“the Company”) was sentenced to four months home detention and his Company was fined $60,000.00 after a house he was moving brought down a power line. While nobody was injured during the...
