A programme that gives secondary-school students hands-on experience of health careers to encourage them into the sector has taken the top prize in the EEO Trust Work & Life Awards 2011.
The grass is no longer looking so green across the Tasman where business confidence has hit a new low and Australian executives face a continuing weak job market for the remainder of 2011.
The latest figures released yesterday from Paymark suggest that the spending boost expected to accompany the RWC will come as a welcome relief to retailers, with soft, choppy trading conditions across most sectors defining the last couple of months.
Picking the winner of the Rugby World Cup may be easier than working out the economic gains – or losses. Gauging how much GDP growth results from the tournament, rather than from – let’s say – the Christchurch rebuild will be tricky too, says Bob Edlin, Executive Update’s economic correspondent.
While traditional retail is facing serious and sometimes deserved challenges, most people do, and will continue to, enjoy going shopping in the real world. In fact, rather than witnessing retail ruin, a retail renaissance is in the making contends a global consumer trends spotting firm.
More than half of all New Zealand employees are saying they expect to switch careers within the next five years, according to a survey by global workforce solutions company, Kelly Services.
Boards wanting to lift their environmental performance should think about appointing independent, more experienced and perhaps legally competent directors. NZ Management reports on some compelling research findings
Everything about the furore created by the remarks of former Employers and Manufacturers Association chief executive Alasdair Thompson and his subsequent departure demonstrates substandard corporate governance.
Corporate New Zealand’s persistent and self-defeating failure to appoint women to the boards of our major companies continues unabated. Board chairmen, the NZX and the Institute of Directors could sort this sorry state of affairs if they cared to, reports Reg Birchfield.
“It’s no more complicated than having guests come to dinner,” says Martin Snedden, chief executive of Rugby New Zealand. “From the moment they walk in your door until the moment they leave you have to look after them. You make sure that they have a good time. And most of the time if you do that they are left with a warm fuzzy feeling. That’s all that we are asking New Zealanders to do for the Rugby World Cup.”
As executives become more senior, they are less likely to receive constructive performance and strategic feedback. They can get it by calling on their junior colleagues.
