March 21, 2004

Keeping up with the Joneses is not as simple as it used to be, now that home technology has become the accepted measuring stick. Having said that, I really didn’t

Videoconferencing has become an essential tool in the drive to speed up the decision-making process. And it’s not just happening in business circles.

Letter to the editor

It’s less than two years since NZ’s Accounting Standards Review Board announced this country would adopt International Reporting Standards (IFRS) – and while the deadline for that adoption is still

Executives around the globe believe the economy has improved over the past six months but think it’s due to level off. That’s one of the findings of 2004 McKinsey quarterly

Auckland’s primary and intermediate principals experienced first hand the benefits of coaching as the International Coaching Federation’s New Zealand branch celebrated “international coach week” in mid-March. To mark the week,

If you’ve just had row with the spouse, chances are your work relationships could also suffer – an assumption backed up by recent EEO Trust survey of over 1300 workers.

Employees working in foreign markets – and particularly the global expatriate – are often one of the most forgotten aspects of globalisation, even for HR managers, according to DBM Asia

The best place to look for successful sustainable models for business is nature – in particular the mature eco-systems where diversity, cooperation and zero waste thrive. That’s according to Elisabet

The number of workers participating in industry training jumped by almost 20,000 last year to new record high of 126,870 trainees – 19 percent increase on the number participating in

Deloitte Tax Services partner Andra Glyn-Jones gave the marketplace useful update on the good and bad outcomes of some regulatory changes, actual and mooted, in New Zealand and Australia that

The past year saw increased competition for executive roles in New Zealand largely brought about by rising level of interest from offshore candidates, according to international recruitment company Robert Walters.

“… today, more than ever before good management demands and must have facts – facts clearly stated, facts presented in precise terms, facts upon which to base policies and make

People who consider themselves happy have higher annual household incomes than those who do not consider themselves very happy. Hardly surprising you say. Well, there was some research data that

If funds in your investments portfolio help support companies that run Asian sweatshops, pollute rivers or ride roughshod over local community welfare, would you know? And, if it comes to

Here’s little reassurance in this age of anxiety. The plethora of stuff that tells us society is in decline is myth. The changes in society and in markets are not

The most difficult aspect of sensual investment is the cross current of culture – the pervasive influence of public attitudes and accumulated status that has greater effect on markets than

Does your ideal salary package contain a bonus scheme? Are you driven to meet management targets by the lure of a performance reward? In this, the second in Management’s Ideal Salary Survey, remuneration consultant Kira Schaffler explains how performance-based pay schemes should work.

Just as there are leads and lags in the economy, so there are in politics. They can decide elections. Economic forecasters pore over leading indicators that might harbour prophecies of

The King – or Queen – is dead, long live the King,” they proclaim when British monarch dies. The new ruler’s reign starts the moment the old one dies. The

Gregory Brown Brown joins 3M New Zealand from the company’s US head office. He replaces Laurie Altman as 3M’s new managing director. Altman has taken over the role of managing

Local government is setting private enterprise management an example. No doubt about it. Consequently, a steady stream of former private sector managers are crossing the line to join the public sector. What, exactly, is going on?

HR is completing its transformation from perceived cost-centre into a direct contributor to the bottom line. Through the online automation of everything from in-house training and recruitment, through to 360-degree surveys, HR professionals have become front-line combatants in the war to retain key talent.

What, exactly, is the tipping point for an important new management model? When does new way of thinking become mainstream management practice rather than fad or even trend with finite

It didn’t whip up lather of media excitement, but Labour Minister Paul Swain last month announced the establishment of Workplace Productivity Working Group to advise the Government on “ways for

The Securities Commission’s report on corporate governance delivered “nine principles” of good practice. But by avoiding a more prescriptive approach to regulating board behaviour, does the report go far enough to attract much-needed international capital to New Zealand?

New Zealand’s conference industry is riding on the back of a buoyant economy and the country’s strong international profile. Management spotlights the trends and some of the trendsetters.

April 5 Effective Use of Time, Sheraton, Auckland. Contact: Avalien Benjaminsen, 0-9-525 3300, [email protected] or www.nzim.co.nz April 5-6 Presentation Skills, Sheraton, Auckland. Contact: Avalien Benjaminsen, 0-9-525 3300, [email protected] or www.nzim.co.nz

The Great Unravelling By: Paul Krugman Publisher: Penguin Price: $35.00 One of the most neck-prickling experiences of my career took place in New York 20-something years ago. The guest speaker