May 23, 2004

Would Don Brash government soothe business’ fevered brow? Answer: we can’t say for sure, yet. Surely that’s preposterous. Brash is nearer mainstream ACT than mainstream National. He has personal authority.

It is something of truism that change is now constant – and to some extent that has always been the case – but the change cycles are now becoming much

Leading experts in management strategy from Japan, London, and the United States will be speaking in Auckland over the next couple of months at the University of Auckland Business School’s

Kiwi accounting professionals doing their OE could benefit from coming home given the increased demand here for their talent, according to Greg Scileppi – international director of Robert Half Finance

New Zealand’s tertiary business colleges and schools are not as active in their research efforts as academic colleagues in non-business disciplines. This shows up in the recent NZ Government Tertiary

A new national workplace survey has found almost one third of all New Zealand employees are already on performance-based pay and many more want it. Carried out by recruitment agency

Te Puni Kokiri Auckland regional director Pauline Kingi takes “loaves and fishes” approach to management. She has to. “With Te Puni Kokiri’s administration constrained by the reality of just one

As the “people matter” mantra starts seriously penetrating corporate consciousness worldwide, the role of human resource specialist is also changing – to be both more business oriented and more strategic.

Having positioned themselves in the global marketplace for labour, suppliers and customers, companies are now investing more resources in competitive intelligence to find out what others are doing, according to

The corporate pruning shears have been shoved back into the sheath and CEO priorities in New Zealand and Australia are now focused on growing business revenue and investing in people

Directors don’t believe they have “strong influence” over profitability. This rather astonishing finding is revealed in some new, groundbreaking research conducted by Massey University’s Albany-based department of Management and International

There was time when we lived in fear of our computers being infected by viruses. In the same way that burglary leaves us feeling violated, catching computer virus (or trojan,

When the final part of the recently introduced Holidays Act slips into force in April 2007, all employees will receive a minimum of four weeks’ annual leave. But some 76 percent of New Zealand managers already receive this amount of leave. Will – or should – their entitlement extend to five weeks?

With NZIM’s October international leadership summit looming and who knows how many business leaders from eight Asian countries attending, what are the leadership issues most on the minds of business

What you need is course,” or “I need couple of days away from the office, what sort of course is available?” It might not be like that in your organisation,

Ian Morrice, Glen Inger Morrice (left), currently managing director, commercial for United Kingdom-based B&Q Plc, takes over as managing director and chief executive officer of The Warehouse Group at the

What were senior managers thinking about most as they launched into 2004? And how do their priorities and strategies look now as the year unfolds?

Any day now Parliament’s Fisheries and Other Sea-related Legislation select committee will call for submissions on the Government’s Foreshore and Seabed Bill, the prospect of which brought hikoi of around

Need time out, food for the soul or some sun and sand as winter beds in?

New Zealand managers and business leaders are going under the microscope. The Government wants to know how well they perform compared with managers in other countries. And does their performance,

Like sports fans who blame the coach when their favourite team fails, business leaders berate the Government and its policies whenever New Zealand’s economy rates unfavourably on international comparative tables.

Are poor performing managers the root cause of New Zealand’s mediocre economic performance, static growth and continuing slide down the OECD’s ranking of international economies? Even more worrying, are they largely responsible for the growing gap between our standard of living and Australia’s?

Accountants introduce many good management tools only to have them fail to spark or deliver on the promise they showed. Why?

Selecting business consultants requires the same rigorous recruitment procedures that most companies apply to selecting employees. Peter Senior outlines the steps in the process.

June 3-4 Key Account Management, Sheraton, Auckland. Contact: Deborah Law-Carruthers, 0-9-303 9101, [email protected] or www.nzim.net.nz June 9-10 Report and Proposal Writing, Sheraton, Auckland. Contact: Avalien Benjaminsen, 0-9-303 9103, [email protected] or

A Bias for Action By: Heike Bruch & Sumantra Ghoshal Publisher: Harvard Business School Press Price: $54.95 “A manager’s job leaves little room for reflection.” If the observation is universally