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Work safety paperwork too complex - study
Many workers are struggling to understand health and safety documents used in their workplaces, a new study has found.

Rebecca Kamm: Why do women prefer male bosses?
Are you a woman? Do you have a boss? If yes, is your boss a man - and if no, would you rather she were?

Grant Nicholson: Standards in NZ much lower than Australia or the UK
What did the workplace health and safety taskforce conclude about New Zealand businesses?

Designing big ideas
Entrepreneurs are driven by the next big idea, the next big trend, and NZ has a number of prominent people leading the way, including Xero's Rod Drury and the Ryan brothers of YikeBike fame.

Shelley Bridgeman: Do you steal from work?
There must be something about office work that brings out the worst in some people and makes them defraud their bosses.

Govt unveils health and safety reforms
Major health and safety reforms stemming from the Pike River disaster have been unveiled by Labour Minister Simon Bridges this morning.

Rebecca Kamm: Cosmetic surgery to get ahead booms in China
New research from Hong Kong shows women are signing up for surgery in a bid to help them find work.

Rebecca Kamm: Seducing men at work
Ad firm CEO Nina DiSesa suggestions women get ahead by flirting, flattering and boosting male egos.

Kids improve work/life balance - study
Multi-tasking parents cope better with the demands of modern-day life than their childless counterparts, new research reveals.

Road workers injured on job
More than 50 people have been injured while working on Western Bay of Plenty roads and bridges in the past two years.

KiwiSaver funds: Oz dragging the chain
Most major KiwiSaver providers say they are ready to start accepting transtasman super transfers but their Aussie counterparts aren't playing ball.

Small business: Business coaching - Terry Allen
Terry Allen, Allen Strategic, a business advisory service which provides advice on issues of governance, strategy and operational services.

Small business: Business coaching - Vicki Taylor
Vicki Taylor, designer of fashion label, taylor, on her experiences with a business coach.

Small business: Business coaching - Lorraine Burns
Lorraine Burns, Managing Director, Recruitment by Design, is an experienced business coach.

Small business: Business coaching - Shane Wratt
Shane Wratt, Manager, Outward Bound for Business.

Small business: Business coaching - Heidi Johnston
Heidi Johnston, owner Windowmakers, an award winning manufacturer of window and doors systems. Johnston and her husband Bruce, bought the company in 2002.

Small business: Expanding practices - Frances Pitsilis
Dr Frances Pitsilis, owner of the medical practice Dr Frances Pitsilis and Skinfresh Clinic. She also has a professional speaking, media and TV work career.

Small business: Expanding practices - Brent Will
Brent Will, of Hale Will Bennison Dental, dentists in Takapuna, which provides general dental services to a largely family-based group of patients.

Small business: Expanding practices - Julian Smith
Julian Smith, director, BRR, an agency for creative thought, brand strategy and design on how to go about branding your business's new division or enterprise.

Small business: Expanding practices - Andrea Clarke
Andrea Clarke, owner of Milford Dentists, which has recently set up a new clinic to help patients with bad breath.

Small business: Expanding practices
As dental practice owner, Andrea Clarke says this week, running a small business was never on the undergraduate syllabus at dental school.

Small business: Flexible working - David Atkins
David Atkins, managing director and shareholder of Image Centre Group.

Port to improve safety record
Employers and employees working at Port of Tauranga need to lift their game to lower the rate of workplace injuries and deaths, union and port officials say.