Changes to NZNO's management team.

NZNO has appointed Dunedin-based industrial adviser Cee Payne-Harker to replace Laila Harre as organising services manager. Payne-Harker, who will remain in Dunedin, is "extremely excited" about the opportunity. "I've always been very keen to have the opportunity to take up a management rote within the organisation. I think I have a strong understanding of the organisation's private sector campaigns, which will be the focus of the industrial team for some time." She sees her strengths as working hard, strong organising skills, a very organised approach to her work and a strong consultative bent. "I support the continuation of the campaigning model within NZNO. I am into power sharing. I want to build collective leadership within the industrial team and NZNO as a whole. I put a high value on consultative, co-operative leadership." Payne-Harker, a registered nurse, joined NZNA as a Christchurch-based organiser in 1989. She has a BA in political science and sociology, and says she has always been a political animal. "My commitment to nursing, politics, trade unionism and feminism came together in my work with NZNA and now NZNO. I have always felt very much at home in NZNA/NZNO."

After breaks from the organisation for child rearing, she returned to NZNO as an organiser based in Dunedin in 1996. She, along with the other Dunedin-based organiser Glenda Alexander, were appointed to a job-share industrial adviser rote in 2002, which subsequently became two fulltime positions.

In another management team change, business services manager (BSM) Dragan Radic is leaving NZNO next month to become chief executive of the Health Service and Welfare Society (HSWS). Radic has been with NZNO for six years and said, while he was sad to be leaving because he had been "passionate" about his job and NZNO's values, he was looking forward to new opportunities. Reflecting on his time with NZNO, he said running a union as an efficient business was a task not to be underestimated. NZNO was now on the right track business wise and that was due to the commitment of members, staff and the management team. Achievements during his time included the introduction of systematic strategic and business planning across NZNO, operational efficiency in membership, finance and administration; successful marketing promotions, notably the direct debit campaign; effective management of operational costs; and a $2 million surplus over five years.

Valuing diversity of opinions and individual contributions were important lessons he had Learnt while at NZNO, Radic said.

He is excited about his role at HSWS, which, like NZNO, is a not-for-profit membership organisation, and he would continue to "work passionately for members" in his new role. NZNO hopes to appoint a new BSM before Radic's departure.