Article: MANAGEMENT : A Sorry State - Studies reveal the troubling truth about local management The evidence is compelling and increasingly voluminous - there is something seriously wrong with the state of management in New Zealand, and short-term prospects for improvement don't look too good.

Three separate research studies released over the past month or so, one local and two global, contain disturbing collective news for New Zealand Inc. Our management is performing below par and, predictably, the way of the future is dependent on quality management performance.

The first sorry revelation came from Doug Matheson, former President of the New Zealand Institute of Management and architect of the locally developed Management Capability Index. Matheson had just released his analysis of the 2006 findings of another long standing survey, the NZIM/Wevers HRM Index.

The survey has been conducted five times since 1994 and examines New Zealand management practices and related competence. ...

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