Perceptions of living wage impacts in Aotearoa New Zealand: towards a multi-level, contextualised conceptualisation

Jane Parker is a Professor of Employment Relations and HRM at the School of Management, Massey University (NZ). She has authored multiple works, including for the International Labour Organisation and the European Foundation for the improvement of Living and Working Conditions. Jane is the co-editor in chief of Labour and Industry: A journal of the social and economic relations of work, an editorial board member of Human Relations and Employee Relations, and an Associate Editor of the Journal of Organisational Effectiveness: People and Performance. She is a member of the International Labour and Employment Relations Association Executive Committee.

James Arrowsmith is Professor in the School of Management, Massey University, NZ. He has published over fifty articles in top-ranked journals and been awarded over $1m in grant funding in NZ and from the UK ESRC. Jim has acted as a consultant for employers, government agencies and trade unions, including a recent series of projects for the International Labour Organisation advising Pacific Island Countries on labour reform. With Professor Parker, he co-directs the Massey People, Organisations, Work and Employment Research group. Jim is on the editorial boards of five leading HR and employment relations journals; co-editor-in-chief of Labour and Industry: A journal of the social and economic relations of work; and Associate Editor of the International Journal of Human Resource Management.

Amanda Young-Hauser has a PhD from Waikato University, Aotearoa/ New Zealand and a background in Community Psychology. She works at the School of Psychology at Massey University, Auckland and contributes to the Ending Poverty and Inequality Research Cluster (EPIC) and Project GLOW (Global Organisational Living Wage) that bring together a global network of researchers with the aim to examine the dynamics of living wages and their consequences for organisations and people.

Darrin Hodgetts is Professor of Societal Psychology at Massey University, Auckland, New Zealand. His research interests lie in the interdependent domains of the social determinants of health, work, poverty, community, and human flourishing. Darrin’s recent book length publications include the Sage Handbook of Applied Social Psychology, Asia–Pacific Perspectives on Inter-cultural Psychology, Social Psychology and Everyday Life (2nd ed), and Urban Poverty and Health Inequalities.

Stuart Colin Carr is Professor of Psychology, Industrial and Organisational (I/O) Psychology Program, Massey University, New Zealand. Stuart co-facilitates the End Poverty and Inequality Cluster (EPIC), which includes a focus on transitions from precarious labour to decent work and living wages. Intersecting with EPIC is Project G.L.O.W. (for Global Living Organisational Wage), a multi-country, multi-generational, interdisciplinary study of the links between decent wages (in purchasing power parity) and sustainable livelihoods for the eradication of poverty – the primary UN Sustainable Development Goal (SDG1).

Jarrod Haar (PhD), Ngati Maniapoto/Ngati Mahuta descent, is a Professor of Human Resource Management at Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand. His research focuses on (1) work-family and work-life balance, (2) Māori employees and Mātauranga Māori, (3) leadership, (4) wellbeing, and (5) R&D, entrepreneurship, and innovation. Professor Haar is ranked world-class (PBRF research assessment exercise); won Industry and best-paper awards; research grants (Marsden, FRST); and currently researchers on a National Science Challenge (Science for Technological Innovation), a Marsden grant (Living Wage), and a Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga grant (Māori HRM). He has over 390 refereed outputs (including 100+ journal articles) and convenes the Economics and Human Behaviour Marsden panel.

Siatu Alefaio-Tugia (Samoan lineage of Matautu-Tai, Sasina, Manunu ma Fagamalo) is Associate Professor at the School of Psychology, Massey University, NZ. Her research speciality is Pacific-indigenous humanitarian psychology and she combines extensive practice and academic experience to re-inform psychology from Pacific-indigenous knowledge frameworks. Siautu has been awarded major research grants from, and acted as advisor to, various NZ bodies including the Ministry of Social Development (MSD), Ministry of Education, Counties Manukau Police Pacific Advisory Board, and Department of Corrections. She has published extensively on issues concerning Pacific well-being for over ten years.