Thousands of investors in failed finance company South Canterbury Finance have just got their money back under the Government’s retail deposit guarantee scheme. But retailers aren’t counting on seeing much of the taxpayer bailout of just over $1.5 billion as Executive Update’s economic commentator Bob Edlin reports. Read more »
Optimism in the hiring market has slipped little with fewer New Zealand employers planning to increase staff numbers and slight increase in those contemplating reduced headcount, according to the Hudson Report: Employment Expectations for October to December. Read more »
Global employment may not now recover until 2015 – two years later than originally predicted – according to the just-released ‘World of Work’ report issued by the International Labour Organisation. Read more »
Five capabilities are at the heart of centred leadership, according to McKinsey & Company research: finding meaning in work; converting emotions such as fear or stress into opportunity; leveraging connections and community; acting in the face of risk; and sustaining the energy that is the life force of change. Read more »
Frustrated watching great ideas get shot down and never see the light of day? Wondering why change is so hard to achieve, even with well laid-out plan? Then join best-selling author and Harvard Professor John Kotter, one of the world’s foremost experts on organisational change, in an interactive – and complimentary – webinar next week. Read more »
Every second Sunday evening, high flying global managing director Helen Robinson catches late night plane from Auckland to either London or New York. She returns the following Friday, works for week from her Auckland home base and then repeats the exercise. Her exposure to the international business world means she has some strong views on what New Zealand needs to do succeed in this environment. Read more »
Organisational purpose is playing an increasingly important role in helping New Zealand organisations navigate economic uncertainty, organisational change and evolving workforce expectations, new research from Hum Consulting, finds.
Aerospace researcher Dr Christina Dunker will join Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha | University of Canterbury (UC) in January 2027 to lead the university’s aerospace ambitions in one of Canterbury’s fastest-growing sectors.
Rising living costs, economic uncertainty and rapid technological change are reshaping how New Zealanders think, spend and live, a new report has found.
