Seems management is growing in popularity as career choice. At least that’s what recent UK poll of students’ attitude to business discovered. Carried out by Businessdynamics and reported in the
Give staff decent level of work-life balance, they’ll repay you with extra loyalty and that translates to dollars saved on staff replacement. That’s the gist of paper presented to the
Outsourcing is growing global phenomena – and New Zealand could be getting bigger share of it, according to recent report from technology intelligence specialists IDC. While rising Kiwi dollar makes
Competition for skilled employees will become more intense over the next six years according to US business futurist Roger Herman. Finding and keeping talent will prove the importance of training,
Making difference to society rather than “simply making profits for company”, appealed to newly appointed Ministry of Transport chief executive and secretary for transport Dr Robin Dunlop. That’s why he
Even before its conclusion, the Australia-US free trade deal wasn’t offering much incentive for Kiwi business to relocate across the Tasman. Just eight percent of 150 medium-sized firms surveyed in
You’d think it might be harder to tell lies to someone’s face than by email but recent study reported in the New Scientist suggests otherwise. The study carried out by
An independent study into corporate governance standards in New Zealand’s public listed companies will be released next month by the Auckland-based Centre for Best Practice The Centre’s director, Ashley Balls,
In global terms, Kiwis are highly entrepreneurial lot but we rely pretty heavily on friends, rellies and investors of the angelic kind to provide the financial seeds of success. According
The internet is still spying on my computer. First the Cookie Monster dumped its load of cookies on my unsuspecting hard-drive to pry on my web-surfing habits (see last month’s
A team of MBA students from the University of Auckland has topped the list of international performers in one of the world’s most prestigious MBA case competitions. The team headed
Businesses in New Zealand are reasonably active on the recycling front and half of them at least consider the environmental impact of their products, processes or services – but social
It took seven months, the consideration of 160 written submissions and the arguments of 71 people in discussion groups but, the Securities Commission last month produced nine guiding principles for
There’s been lot of discussion of late as to whether good corporate governance can be regulated or whether softly softly principles-based approach is more effective, but in the United States
Helping Maori organisations turn Treaty settlements into sustainable enterprise is the aim of joint project launched by Westpac and the NZ Business Council for Sustainable Development. This will initially focus
It’s question that could be reverberating around workplaces over the next month or so as the Government’s work-life project seeks feedback on the topic from individuals and organisations around New
The traditional means of delivery may be declining in popularity but management education itself has great future because people doing the courses get so much personal benefit from them, according
Leadership. Everyone is talking about it. And the tussle at the top of the nation’s political power game is, at another level, leadership-style sideshow worth watching. But back to the
One of the most remarkable and valuable features of wine and most other alcoholic beverages, is the investment value-enhancing effect age has on them. Time is, of course, the essence
Chris Zook, growth guru and lead consultant at international strategy consultancy Bain & Co, based his best selling book Profit from the Core on a worldwide study of 8000 companies to discover how and why they grow successfully or fail to deliver. He found that just 13 percent of the companies studied achieved sustained profitable growth. His second book, Beyond the Core, has been written to answer the question: What allows some companies to grow successfully by
As project management moves from being a one-off, outsourced activity to an essential corporate skill set, the focus on identifying success factors becomes more intense. Where better to look for these than on one of the country’s most demanding project management jobs?
How can you present organisational information more effectively? Step out and embrace leading-edge technology by all means, but remember, the basic techniques of delivery are just as important.
ACT, so it says, is the party of business and it has its annual conference this month. And it will need to get down to business because now there is
How do you know when your enterprise is doing a good job – better yet, an excellent job? And what exactly is “excellence”? The New Zealand Business Excellence Awards help managers find the answer.
Last year was challenge for the export education industry in New Zealand, as it was in many other parts of the world. combination of the SARS virus and other international
Martin McManus McManus has been appointed as director of Sony New Zealand. He is the first New Zealander to head the company, the role in the past having been held
The New Zealand Institute of Management has developed an educational charter that defines the Institute’s direction, goals and special character. Batch Hales, author of the document, summarises the key points.
Groundbreaking research by students at CMICS, the Completely Mythical Institute of Common Sense, has established that 98.7 percent of workers at every level in all age groups in most occupations feel a whole lot better about their jobs when those they work with make sincere, encouraging or appreciating noises. Commenting on the project, student supervisor Geer Rudjing-Lee said, “Not a bad outcome, though it overran the budget and took longer than I had hoped.”
Education is serious business. It is big business too, accounting for nearly 20 percent of the Government’s total annual spend of $42 billion. We are all at some stage captured
The effectiveness of a school is closely linked to the calibre of its leadership. Just how well led are “today’s schools”? And what help do state school principals and their front-line managers get to cope with a task that makes managing a business look like a doddle?
Appointing a chief executive is still the single most important job on a board’s agenda. But what an increasing number of organisations want in a CEO and other top management, is integrity and honesty. So, is it possible to interview for what sometimes seems like two awfully scarce commodities?
We included an article in the Upfront section of the December issue of Management magazine asking: “What do you think of your consultant?” We invited readers to complete an online survey carried out with the Institute of Management Consultants of New Zealand (IMCNZ). The results, along with some conclusions, make interesting reading.
The Kiwi Effect By: Lawrence Green and Jenny Campbell Publisher: Avocado Press Price: $34.95 Are we really, as sentence in one of the two forewords of this enthusiastic little book
