Our commitments
At MBIE we value our people, and strive to reflect, embrace and nurture the communities we serve, including developing and maintaining our capability to engage Māori and understand Māori perspectives.
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At MBIE we value our people, and strive to reflect, embrace and nurture the communities we serve, including developing and maintaining our capability to engage Māori and understand Māori perspectives.
Our work programme is designed to deliver sustainable activity across three streams:
- Leadership: our people-centred leaders are highly inclusive, equipped and supportive.
- Culture: our people at all levels are actively inclusive and live our values.
- Structure: our systems, policies, and processes remove systemic barriers to inclusion.
MBIE gained external recognition in 2023 with Randstad Employer Brand Research, being named in the top three ‘Employer of Choice’ for offering great opportunities for career progression. That same year MBIE won the Diversity Awards NZTM ‘Inclusive Workplace’ category for our People Experience mahi. Also, in 2023 MBIE won the New Zealand Rainbow Excellence Awards ‘Simpson Grierson Impact Award’ for the Rainbow People Experience project.
Internally MBIE celebrates and recognises excellence through the Values and Awards programme. Every year people nominate their hoamahi for living our values and demonstrating great behaviours. This helps us maintain a culture of manaaki, respect and care, and recognises the contributions our people make to Growing New Zealand for All, holding the communities we serve at the centre.
MBIE Employee Led Networks (ELNs) offer connection and advocacy for the needs of their members. MBIE’s ELNs contribute significantly to workplace culture, policies, and processes, playing a fundamental role in creating a more inclusive, equitable and accessible MBIE and New Zealand.
Network members work to raise awareness, share lived experiences and remove barriers for others that are under-represented or marginalised. Each ELN has at least one Senior Leadership Team (SLT) sponsor who offers visibility, influence, and strategic guidance. Our ELNs have grown from three in 2019, to ten today. They are:
- African Community Employee Network
- Arahanga Wāhine - Women’s Network
- Asia International Network
- Asia International Pride Network
- Ngāi Kahukura - Rainbow Network
- Pacific Staff Village
- Te Aumangea - Mental Health Network
- Te Rau Puāwai - Wāhine Māori Network
- Te Tae Whakapakari | ENABLED Network (Enhancing Abilities and Leveraging Disabilities)
- Women of Colour Network.
We have specific programmes of work that support building our capability to engage with Māori and understand Māori perspectives, with the goal of improving outcomes for Māori. These include our organisational Māori strategy Te Tāpuhipuhi and initiatives such as Whāinga Amorangi, our capability plan developed under Te Arawhiti – Office for Māori Crown Relations framework for the public sector.