Recently added articles from New Zealand Management:
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT GUIDE: Professional Development In Practice ; Helen Tatham speaks with two executives who are currently involved in professional development courses.
May 01, 2009; ... Not-for-profit organisations are feeling the funding pinch in thecurrent economic environment but Sport Waikato will not be cuttingtraining and development from the budget, chief executive officerMatthew Cooper says. Youre only as good as your people, he says. Giving people ...
TOP TEN TIPS: Management Mistakes To Avoid In A Recession
May 01, 2009; ... Managing a team is never easy, but in todays economy it poses aparticular challenge. Most companies are feeling increased pressureto do more with less " in many cases, a lot less. How can you keepyour employees motivated and inspired to do their best work when youhave fewer rewards to ...
EMPLOYMENT LAW: Nine-Day Working Fortnight " The New Alternative To Redundancy
May 01, 2009; ... The nine-day fortnight was one of the headline suggestions tocome out of the Governments recent Jobs Summit. The scheme isdesigned to give businesses extra help to ride out tough economicconditions, hopefully saving a few jobs in the process. However,there are many other alternatives to ...
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT GUIDE
May 01, 2009 ... Manukau Institute of Technology Faculty of Business The Faculty, consisting of the Schools of Accounting andManagement, Communication and Marketing, Business Services, plusComputing and Information Technology, provides a comprehensiveapproach to management education from ...
CONSULTATION: Measurement And Communication
May 01, 2009; ... What does Triple Bottom Line mean? I have been in meetings whensomeone mentions it but no one explains it. Yes, I know what you mean. Traditionally companies have measuredtheir success through how much money they have made. However, thisis purely a financial measure and only covers ...
CAMPAIGN: Dont Mention The Recession - 'R-Proof' Offices ; A low key recession-proofing initiative which started as a bit of fun for Wellington business Trilogy has gathered international attention and support.
May 01, 2009; ... Wellington skincare company Trilogy has gained extensive localcoverage of its recession-proof office campaign with severalnewspaper and television stories in recent weeks. But the initiativehas now taken off internationally with UK chemist chain Boots justone of the global corporates to ...
VOLATILITY: Managing In Volatile Times ; In the third instalment of Deloittes five-part series on how to ride out the recession, Matthew Hitch talks about the importance of making sure the foundations of your business are secure in an uncertain recessionary environment.
May 01, 2009 ... Is a back-to-basics approach the best way to tackle therecessions impact? Yes, thats exactly what were advising. When faced with challengeslike this it can be tempting to look for silver bullets, and by thatI mean sophisticated and complex answers which claim to mitigate ...
LEADERSHIP: From The Horses Mouth - Lead a horse to water... ; Vicki Jayne discovers that standing in a circle with a horse can teach you some very interesting leadership skills.
May 01, 2009; ... The task Ive been given is easy enough. Without moving out ofyour own zone, you persuade a horse to walk in a circle around you.Me and the horse face each other " hes wearing a halter; Imwearing an increasingly helpless expression. Despite my bestencouraging noises and some persuasive ...
FACE TO FACE: Jens Madsen - Berth Controller ; When you preside over a company that occupies some 70 hectares of prime waterfront real estate in New Zealands biggest city, some negative attention is inevitable. Add the result of a downturn thats slashed Ports of Auckland profits and things could look grim " so why does managing director Jens Madsen describe his as a dream job?
May 01, 2009; ... The control room at Ports ofAuckland HQ is impressively high tech; banks of screens detail everyaspect of port activity " but managing director Jens Madsen isnthappy. NZ Managements visit has coincided ...
COVER STORY: High Tech, High Hopes - Transforming New Zealand ; High-tech companies turn ideas into high-value products " and they could turn New Zealand into a more prosperous and lively place to live. So says Paul Callaghan, the countrys most distinguished physicist and newest business prophet. His Wool to Weta thesis is certainly turning heads in a time of deepening recession.
May 01, 2009; ... New Zealands future rides on our ability to earn more on globalmarkets. Everyone knows it even if survival, not growth, is the bigbusiness issue of today. Paul Callaghan " eminent physicist,businessman and passionate Kiwi " wants us to think, not just aboutweathering global recession, ...
NZIM PEOPLE: NZIMs David Chapman - Signing Off After 17 Years ; David Chapman, the New Zealand Institute of Managements National Chief Executive, is moving on after 17 years at the helm. He talked with NZ Management about his style of leadership, his achievements and his few disappointments.
May 01, 2009 ... Always impeccably groomed and tailored, David Chapman looks everyinch the diplomat. He wasnt, in fact, plucked from the ranks of theforeign ministry, though he did work for the nations public sector,marketing New Zealands tourism industry to Americans during the 80sas the senior travel ...
BOOKCASE: The Complete KiwiSaver: Everything you need to know
May 01, 2009; ... Mary Holm Random House NZ $29.99 Only half of the people who joined KiwiSaver in its first yearchose which provider ...
BOOKCASE: The Wikipedia Revolution: How a bunch of nobodies created the words greatest encyclopedia
May 01, 2009; ... Andrew Lih Aurum Press $39.99 (in stores May 7th) Who can imagine a world without Wikipedia? You type in a ...
BOOKCASE: The Game-changer: How every leader can drive everyday innovation
May 01, 2009; ... AG Lafley & Ram Charan Profile Business $39.99 Innovation has become the catch-cry of a business world beset ...
POLITICS: Making Far-Apart Ends Meet
May 01, 2009; ... The good thing about being a government is that you dont have tomake ends meet. You just borrow. Bill English is borrowing big andwill go on borrowing big after his budget on May 28. The 1960s Prime Minister Sir Keith Holyoake used to talk aboutthe government budget rather like a ...
ECONOMICS: Spreading The Good Word
May 01, 2009; ... Economic forecasters " quarter by quarter " have been tickingdown their growth expectations for New Zealand as the domesticrecession persists and the international recession widens. TheNZIERs March Consensus Forecasts accordingly dropped the GDP growthforecast for 2008/2009 from -0.2 ...
JUST GOOD BUSINESS: SUSTAINABILITY: A Grand Opportunity
May 01, 2009; ... The opportunity to upgrade the countrys million sick homes hasnever been greater. Nor has the opportunity to muff it. At stake isa major chance to re-orientate the building and real estate industrytoward the performance " not just the location and appearance " ofhomes. It would ...
JUST GOOD BUSINESS PROFILE: Environmental Europlan - Credible and Commercial ; Despite the economic downturn and government cutbacks, New Zealands Environmental Choice label is going from strength to strength. Why?
May 01, 2009; ... An indication of the scarily confusing scale of environmentallabelling can be found in an eco-label directory on the Ministry ofDevelopments website " only the x and y spots in the alphabeticallisting have no entries; g (think green) gets over 40. Theres a lotof them. So just ...
JUST GOOD BUSINESS NEWS: TAX OR TRADE?
May 01, 2009 ... Victorian governor David de Kretser is the latest to wade intothe debate whether carbon taxes are a more effective means ofreducing greenhouse gas than Australias planned emissions tradingscheme. Speaking at an environmental sustainability conference at MonashUniversity last ...
JUST GOOD BUSINESS NEWS: TWO DEGREES CELSIUS " A RECEDING TARGET?
May 01, 2009 ... While nations acting to avert climate change are focusing onpolicies to limit global warming to two degrees celsius, it seemsmany climate change scientists believe that goal is now unrealisticand an average rise of four to five degrees celsius by the centurysend is more ...