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Article: MANAGEMENT HISTORY ;Origins - Management in New Zealand Management magazine is in its 50th year of publication. In this, the first of a series of articles leading up to its 50th birthday, Ian F Grant, begins the story of the magazine's reporting and commentary on the evolution of management, the profession, in New Zealand.
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- New Zealand Management
- Article date:
- July 6, 2004
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In the way things were put in those days, Management magazine
began its publishing life as "the official organ" of the New Zealand
Institute of Management in April 1955. NZIM National president A
Thomas said in 1955: "Those responsible for its control will try to
make it a readable, reliable guide and stimulant for all who have the
responsibility of controlling the money, men, machines, materials and
methods which are the stuff of management."
It was, in 1955, as serviceable a definition of management as any
other. Management was published independently by S M Niblock's Modern
Productions, but there was a close association with NZIM, which had
been promoting the management concept since ...