In the rapidly evolving business landscape, continuous learning, development, and adaptation is crucial for working professionals aiming to remain competitive. The same can also be said for university and higher
The University of Auckland is incorporating unprecedented levels of flexibility into its new-look MBA for 2024 – continuing a 40-year legacy of innovation. A number of strategic and practical measures
The AUT Master of Business Management of Programme’s emphasis on practical application and experiential learning is a popular addition to the postgraduate landscape. The Master of Business Management (MBM) is
The small rise in unemployment is beginning to reflect on-the-ground anecdotal evidence being shared by its members, says the Employment and Manufacturers Association. EMA head of advocacy, strategy and finance,
Sustainability, digitalisation and resilient, inclusive trade will be key themes of a major gathering of senior Asia-Pacific business leaders to be held in Auckland early this year – the first
The Melbourne Convention Bureau (MCB) has unveiled its latest inspiration tool – the interactive e-guide. Connecting event planners and delegates with inspiring new and undiscovered experiences of the city, the
Consultation has opened on a draft of the Long-term Insights Briefing looking at the future of business for Aotearoa New Zealand. MBIE’s chief economist, Donna Purdue, says in a statement
Amantha Imber’s team has worked a four-day week for a year. This is what she has learnt. You wake up on a Friday morning. ‘One more day until the
Steve Hallett is a director and co-owner of two electrical companies in Auckland and Northland and for the past eight years has chaired the board of the Electrical Training Company
After multiple lockdowns many businesses’ financial resources will be running low and the mental health resource of owners, directors, managers and staff is probably in a similar state, writes Cathy
Glossy magazine-style sustainability reports often fail to live up to the hype, neglecting to highlight important issues or address the tough questions. AUT Business School’s Dr Muhammad Bilal Farooq interviewed
There are certain capabilities that help business leaders make wiser decisions. By Arash Arabi. The 2020 Gartner CIO Agenda started with this statement: “The goal of all organisations should be
Calls by senior business leaders for more openness and cooperation around the Government’s plan for the ongoing management of Covid-19 are strongly supported by the EMA. Chief executive Brett O’Riley
The new Privacy Act 2020 has been in force for not quite two months, so what can organisations do to prepare if there is a breach of someone’s privacy? By
Being a director is not for the faint hearted. It can be a full on, demanding and daunting role, but it’s also an opportunity to help build a strong, fair
Regardless of whether we’re in the throes of, or at the tail-end of this (or any other) pandemic, the lessons from lockdowns are applicable anywhere, anytime, writes Kate Kearins. Kate
Having a purpose, beyond profit, that is Governing for purpose beyond profit is one of the defining governance transformations of current times. While there was always an element of this in
Directors in New Zealand and Australia are facing the most volatile and restrictive liability insurance market in living memory and there are no signs of it improving anytime soon. A
The pandemic lockdown has seen many business leaders transform the way they work and it’s probably fair to say a good number will have had to up their personal technological
The pandemic has accelerated calls for more remote and flexible work
The current pandemic might help focus minds on the fact that companies have duties in terms of staff health and need to follow the same processes …
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New Zealand and Australian businesses have some way to go in earning their customers’ trust around data-gathering and sharing. By Ian Hulme. Data is king in today’s global economy; it
Kate Kearins wonders if the trend toward juniorisation of the workplace has returned. In the name of being model employees, many of us have moved out of our traditional 9am
It is becoming clearer that directors have a legal as well as moral imperative to consider climate change in their decision-making, says Cathy Parker. The Aotearoa Circle Sustainable Finance Forum obtained
It’s important to understand the practices applying to gender and pay in your organisation to minimise the likelihood of engagement in a formal pay equity settlement process, says Catherine Fitzsimons.
Empathy is like a muscle – use it or lose it. If Barack Obama, Bill Gates and Sheryl Sandberg can make time for reading fiction, what excuse do you have?
Disclosing the remuneration range when advertising a position may encourage more high-quality candidates to apply, writes Krista Kelland. Defining a remuneration range before advertising a role promotes transparency and equity
It pays to remember that a workplace health and safety prosecution is a criminal offence, says Cathy Parker, as she outlines why vehicles account for 73 percent of workplace fatalities.
As mental health resources across the country are set to receive a boost in government funding, business leaders have an important role in supporting the mental health of their workforce.
To move in front, make progress and head towards the future. Nothing about this definition suggests standing still or lagging… Find out more It’s that forward focus that has defined
A recent amendment to the UK Companies Act now requires directors to act with regard to the long-term and in making decisions stipulates they look at employee interests, business relationships
Workplace design is a powerful tool to cultivate a growth mindset. To achieve this, architects need to operate at the intersection of organisational policies, brand values, employee profile and wellness
Diversity in your organisation is important, and in many cases, critical.
Could business succession be on the horizon for your organisation this year? For many New Zealand business owners, their enterprise is very important to them. The business has been nurtured
If you don’t ‘fit’ the dress standard of your organisation and don’t want to remedy that, it may be that this isn’t the right place for you to work. By
Each hour of the workday is not created equal. Time of day has a dramatic impact on the quality of our decision-making, thanks to a concept called decision fatigue. Amantha
With the New Zealand International Convention Centre in Auckland and Te Pae Christchurch expected to open in 2020, and Wellington Convention and Exhibition Centre now in the planning, New Zealand
A new study has found that many consumers are asking if they can trust the technology companies designing, developing and deploying digital services. Do these companies understand their responsibilities? Russell
If you manage a team, there are three simple micro-productivity tactics you can try that will have a dramatic impact on your team’s performance, writes Amantha Imber. Every minute of
Māori authority businesses’ surplus before tax was almost $720 million in 2017, a record level for figures going back to 2012, according to Stats NZ. The surplus was achieved on
A specialist recruiter for people over 45 years old is calling for urgent action from all private and public organisations to ditch ageist attitudes and benefit from experience and knowledge.
On World Environment Day, the Sustainable Business Council (SBC) is celebrating its 20th anniversary of helping businesses be better for New Zealand. “In the past 20 years, we have seen
With ambitious health and safety targets, there’s a lot of work to do and change needs to be driven by business and industry leaders. WorkSafe New Zealand has now
Your rewards strategy needs to take into account wh at your employees value, which means considering ‘out-of-the-box’ benefits, writes John McGill. Creating a winning reward strategy is about more than
Business plays a vital role in opening up opportunities to recognise and use the expertise and experience sitting within our refugee community. So how can business can make the necessary
Responsible investing, from both an economic and social perspective, is much more closely linked to health and safety than a lot of people realise. In a recent discussion with WorkSafe
It seems that in the past couple of years giving a hug as a greeting or farewell has become quite the norm in business…
New local research investigated the extent to which data analytics is influencing managerial decision-making…
Aspiring CEOs need to be careful what they wish for; the job has its downsides too, writes Roger Jones, quoting a seasoned CEO.
How does a board govern in today’s volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous environment? By Cathy Parker. VUCA – Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and Ambiguous – was a term coined by the
In this video of the WorkSafe New Zealand’s Insights series, Adrian Orr, Governor of Reserve Bank of New Zealand joins CEO Nicole Rosie. VIEW FULL VIDEO HERE.
When Management spoke to Reserve Bank Governor, Adrian Orr, in mid-December, it had been a long year. He had moved straight into the Reserve Bank role in March 2018 without
Setting strategy is a key for business governance, especially when the business is facing disruption or potential disruption in today’s VUCA environment, writes Cathy Parker.
Staying on top of emerging developments and issues is a continuing challenge for directors. With 2019 about to kick into top gear Kirsten Patterson offers some thoughts about the future of work from a governance perspective.
If there is no choice but to match a competitor’s lower prices, then the “cost to serve” must also be reduced, to maintain acceptable margins, says Paul Allen who sees business lessons to learn from the movie Apollo 13.
In the third of WorkSafe New Zealand’s Insights series, Quinton Hall, Chief Executive of Ngāi Tahu Tourism chair joins CEO Nicole Rosie. Manaakitanga (kindness), rangatiratanga (leadership) and whanaungatanga (family) are
Companies often approach organisational change in terms of structure, such as managerial reporting lines, but what they really want is a change of behaviours between people. By Yee-Wei Ooi.
Prominent New Zealand businessman and philanthropist Tony Falkenstein (ONZM) has pledged a half-million dollar donation to enable students at the University of Waikato’s Management School to travel overseas and gain
With any new project it’s valuable to have strict criteria around when, and how, to review projects and have some clear go-no-go points. And to consider potential bail-out options before proceeding, writes Cathy Parker.
Performance reviews are changing and although not yet prevalent here…
Auckland-based independent digital electricity company Electric Kiwi has secured the number one spot in the 2018 Deloitte Fast 50 index with a dramatic 3602 percent revenue growth over the past
Officially there are 352,700 New Zealand mothers of under 14-year-olds in paid work.
Unless you truly are a multimillionaire or someone who has ‘opted-out’…
What can New Zealand leaders learn from a global leader in business ethics? A world leader in the business of ethics, Emmanuel Lulin, L’Oreal’s senior vice-president and chief ethics officer,
Insights – Championing Health and Safety with Nicole Rosie Nicole Rosie, the chief executive at WorkSafe New Zealand, is a woman on a mission. She wants to ensure that New
A recent survey found that most businesses agreed that they should take extra steps to attract and retain older workers, viewing them as an “untapped resource”
Executive remuneration is at the centre of an ongoing global debate.
There is a big difference between working in a robust workplace where people can be upfront with each other, comfortably engaging in constructive conflict and a workplace with a pattern of incivility. Jane McCarroll explains.
While there’s no denying that lifting the wages of certain lower-paid industries is positive for those particular employees, it puts pressure on other sectors to do likewise – something that
New Zealand’s 40 biggest co-operatives, mutuals and societies generated more than $45.47 billion in revenue over their respective 2016/17 financial years, equating to 17.4 percent of New Zealand’s GDP.
The Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment is looking at how it treats directors’ addresses in the Companies Register as part of its deliberations on whether to introduce a director
Could organisational modelling work for your business? By John Ellen.
Lifting productivity is the key to a successful business community and a more prosperous New Zealand…
Nicole Rosie, the chief executive at WorkSafe New Zealand, is a woman on a mission. She wants to ensure that New Zealand’s leaders embrace the idea that leading in the health and safety sphere is about genuinely caring for your people, both mind and body, and about operational excellence. It’s also about understanding your key risks and the key controls to manage that risk.
Having experienced a period of price and wage stability for a number of years, the growing expectations…
Plans for applying GST to imported low-value goods would level the playing field…
By concentrating on low-impact, high-frequency health and safety risks in an organisation, leaders may miss critical risks that could lead to life-changing harm, or even death, for an employee.
When you have a good idea, it pays to take action fast to move the idea along a notch…
Effective transformation of a business requires a whole lot more than simply moving boxes. Ken…
Demography – the fundamental driver of all economies – is shifting the balance of power…
We have a responsibility to be ourselves, writes Jane McCarroll, because everyone else is…
Chorus chief financial officer Andrew Carroll was named the CFO of the Year at the 2017 CFO Awards…
A Bill to tackle money laundering and terrorist financing has been introduced to…
Entries are now open for the Diversity Awards NZ 2017, with the event celebrating…
More local businesses looking to expand into Korea will benefit from the latest round…
Pitney Bowes Inc. (PBI), a global technology company has unveiled the Pitney Bowes Parcel Shipping Index…
Kiwi office workers are not fond of the suit and tie but many like to work in their pyjamas, a new survey by workspace provider Regus has revealed.
Collaboration is no longer just a strategy for any business or industry – it is a vital component to…
It’s the glamour end of the sponsorship wheel – corporate sponsorship of New Zealand’s top…
Emotional self-awareness is important in being able to remain calm and frame situations…
An investment in safety and health is an investment in your bottom line. If safety is considered the…
In the year to June 2015, 540,000 delegates attended 5,500 local and international business…
The country’s largest retailer, The Warehouse Group, has launched a new initiative to support victims of family violence and encourage those affected by family violence to seek help.
Corporate social responsibility through sustainability is becoming the driver for enterprises…
Spark is teaming up with local resident Rob Henderson, to bring a free public bike-share system to Christchurch this June.
As the Millennial Generation (or Gen Y) ages, they are becoming increasingly important in the workplace. They are moving into positions of responsibility and becoming more valuable to their employers, says Joyce Gioia of in the Herman Trend Alert.
PwC is marking World Health Day today by announcing the establishment of its global food supply and integrity services business which is being developed and led from New Zealand to help food companies and governments tackle the world’s food security, safety and quality concerns.
