An award application for the Civil Contractors New Zealand 2015 awards. SCIRT was a finalist in the "Connexis Company Training and Development Award - Large Company" category.
A PDF copy of the Selwyn Times community newspaper, published on Tuesday 24 July 2012.
A black and white historic photograph looking along Manchester Street, showing the building of the NZ Express Company, customs, shipping and forwarding agents (ca. 1910-1929).
A group of men stand with beer bottles. In the background, people are filling containers with water from a bore. The photographer comments, "My friend and crewmate Darren Armstrong was providing water from an artesian bore at his house on Marshland Rd. His roofing company employees stood around helping - and drinking beer".
Based on a qualitative study of four organisations involving 47 respondents following the extensive 2010 – 2011 earthquakes in Christchurch, New Zealand, this paper presents some guidance for human resource practitioners dealing with post-disaster recovery. A key issue is the need for the human resource function to reframe its practices in a post-disaster context, developing a specific focus on understanding and addressing changing employee needs, and monitoring the leadership behaviour of supervisors. This article highlights the importance of flexible organisational responses based around a set of key principles concerning communication and employee perceptions of company support.