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We Shouldn’t Be Surprised: a management educator’s perspective on allegations at Immigration New Zealand
Get PDFThe urgent independent review, launched in mid-August 2023, of the accredited employer work visa system by Immigration New Zealandfollowed accusations that staff concerns were ignored by managers, leading to exploitation of migrants. Based on my experience as amanagement educator, and my research into what we teach (and do not teach) students about management, I argue that we should not be surprised by the allegations, but we should be concerned
Drawn from Nature: Wallpaper patterns in New Zealand's Schools of Art and Design
Get PDFSchools of art and design were established in New Zealand from 1870 to foster the development of technical skills in the trades and the creative and decorative arts. These schools flourished throughout the latter two decades of the nineteenth century and the early decades of the twentieth century. Informed by the teachings of the South Kensington School in England, students in New Zealand were instructed in the design of patterns for interior finishes, such as wallpapers, tiles, linoleum and textiles. The blossoming Arts and Crafts movement not only guided the teaching models of these schools, but encouraged students to explore the graphic possibilities of flora and fauna, which in the New Zealand context resulted in original decorative patterns with native motifs.
This paper will explore the design of wallpaper patterns by students at the New Zealand schools of art, focusing on those produced between the mid-1880s and the late 1890s. The influence and inspiration for these patterns will be traced, from the Arts and Crafts movement, the teaching methods at schools of art and design, to the natural New Zealand environment
Decarbonising Aotearoa New Zealand’s Aviation Sector: hard to abate, but even harder to govern
Get PDFAotearoa New Zealand ranks sixth in the world for total per capita aviation emissions. Our geographic isolation, our globally dispersed families and our large tourism industry make international aviation especially significant. Domestic aviation is also important, in part due to a lack of passenger rail services. We need to decarbonise aviation. Yet, uncertainties of future technologies and responses to prospective policies make it a challenge to prescribe a definite course of action. We suggest that a wide range of policies, including emissions budgets, a sustainable aviation fuel mandate, emissions trading and fuel tax reform, and a rethink of tourism are essential
Board gender diversity and corporate voluntary disclosures of Nigerian firms
Get PDFPurpose - The main objective of this paper was to examine the relationship between gender diversity and voluntary disclosure practice of listed firms in Nigeria.
Methodology - The study used a survey design that is cross-sectional. Data were obtained from content analysis of the finance reports of 68 companies listed on the Nigerian stock exchange as at December 2021 and was analyzed a log-linear regression.
Findings - It was found that female CEOs, female heading risk and audit committees of the board as well as gender diversity and number of females on board matter significantly in explaining variation in corporate voluntary disclosure. However, female heading remuneration committee does not matter in voluntary disclosure.
Originality - this study adds to the literature on gender diversity and voluntary disclosure by testing the relationship between women heading various board committees especially, audit, remuneration, finance and women COE as well as total number of women and voluntary disclosure using data from Nigeria. It was concluded that feminist virtues such as modesty, transparency and care for others enhance disclosure of corporate information that are not necessarily required by company law
In Hot Water: The Failure of New Zealand's Resource Management System to Respond to Events Induced by Climate Change
Get PDFThe sustainable management of Aotearoa's natural resources requires a system which is responsive to environmental changes. This will become more important in the future with the more frequent extreme environmental events predicted with climate change. The current system relies on statutory powers to review consents and adaptive management regimes to re-examine resource consents following environmental changes. This article focuses on two group consents to draw over 7,000,000 m3 of water per year from an aquifer in Northland. After these group consents were granted, a significant fire began which threatened the vulnerable wetland ecosystem. This article argues that the current system fails to respond to environmental events of this nature. With significant resource management reforms ongoing, it is crucial to consider how to create a responsive resource management system for a future dominated by the effects of climate change
'Opening the Blind Box': A multimodal account of access to the restricted field China during COVID-19
Get PDFThe COVID-19 pandemic returned the politics of ‘access’ to the forefront of anthropological discussion. This article offers a multimodal, autoethnographic account of ‘access’ across axes, foregrounding the biomedical, digital, bureaucratic and citizenship contingencies of arriving in China, a process which was for two of the authors, a process also of returning ‘home’. We employ the metaphor of the ‘blind box’, colloquially and commercially meaning a box containing mysterious toys, to unfold questions of power and uncertainty over one’s fate during pandemic travel. The article’s co-created comics, read alongside written narratives, convey affective environments, and aid our analysis of the changed and charged conditions of access. We therefore frame access through shifts in technological affordances, the affects they produce, and the risks and responsibilities that fieldworkers carry. We argue that in these stories, access becomes an experience to be lived through, saturated with the contingencies of technology as researchers find themselves subject to the fluid landscape of policy, shifting perceptions of ‘home’ and newly resonant parallels with earlier eras of ethnographic research in China
Funding Primary Care for Better Outcomes
Get PDFThis article reviews a recent report advocating transformational change in the funding and recruitment of staff for Aotearoa New Zealand’s primary care services, including taking a social investment approach to the funding of primary care. The article develops these arguments and discusses new accountability frameworks for primary care delivery, including financial incentives for improving treatment of chronic conditions and collaborative approaches to communityled initiatives to promote preventive healthcare, drawing on a wide range of literature, including mātauranga Māori
An Artificial Intelligence Agenda for New Zealand: Lessons from the United States
Get PDFWith recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI), policymakers are looking for tools to promote the associated benefits, as well as mitigate the attendant risks. Thanks to extensive experimentation by international partners, New Zealand is positioned to parse the lessons of those international policies and more quickly adapt those that are successful to its own context. This article identifies several key AI policies pursued by the United States that may be relevant in a New Zealand context and discusses broad lessons from the US experience to help inform successful AI policymaking in New Zealand. It also emphasises the unique bipartisan nature of AI policymaking in the United States to date, and the benefits of a consensus-building approach to AI policy
Reforming the Research and Science System for Māori Innovation practice theory for policy implementation
Get PDFTe Ara Paerangi proposes multi-year reforms to New Zealand’s research, science and innovation system to ‘make a greater impact on New Zealand’s productivity and wellbeing’. One objective is to ‘embed Te Tiriti’ and ‘advance Māori aspirations in the RSI system’. What does this mean in practice? Using a three-element practice theory framework, we assess the Science for Technological Innovation National Science Challenge’s approach to advancing Māori-led or -partnered science and innovation. Our analysis suggests that such frameworks provide a useful lens for assessing how policy can move to practical implementation, particularly to advance Māori innovation aspirations
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