scholarly journals The role universities can play in supporting the state sector

2015 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Chris Whelan
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Tertiary Education ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Significant Rise ◽  
The State ◽  
State Sector ◽  
The Past ◽  
Developed World ◽  
Economic Well Being

Over recent decades most of the developed world has invested significantly in lifting the proportion of the population that has a tertiary education, with a view to increasing what is commonly referred to as human capital. The OECD defines human capital as ‘the knowledge, skills, competencies and attributes embodied in individuals that facilitate the creation of personal, social and economic well-being’. New Zealand spends around 1% of its GDP on tertiary education (OECD, 2014) and has seen a significant rise in the proportion of the population with a tertiary qualification over the past couple of decades.

scholarly journals Kindergartens and Their Removal from the State Sector Act

1997 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claire Davison
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
The State ◽  
New Right ◽  
State Sector ◽  
The Past ◽  
State Involvement

The kindergarten sector has been the scene of some remarkable policy manoeuvres over the past seven years. Successive Governments in New Zealand have sought to implement a “New Right” agenda aimed at reducing state involvement in the sector. In 1997 we have witnessed some decisive moves in this direction. This paper focuses on the removal of kindergartens from the State Sector Act 1988, through an Amendment to the Act passed in April, 1997.

scholarly journals The Role of Relationships at Work and Happiness: A Moderated Moderated Mediation Study of New Zealand Managers

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (12) ◽  
pp. 3443 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jarrod Haar ◽  
Anja Schmitz ◽  
Annamaria Di Fabio ◽  
Urs Daellenbach
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Interpersonal Relationships ◽  
Firm Size ◽  
Meaningful Work ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Moderated Mediation ◽  
Mediation Effect ◽  
Firm Level ◽  
Employee Happiness

Interpersonal relationships at work are important especially for the well-being of employees. The present study tests Positive Relational Management (PRM) and its influence on employee happiness, and we include two firm-level moderators and an individual-level mediator to better understand the potential complexity of effects. Importantly, we test this in the context of New Zealand, which has been under-represented in employee studies of happiness and is important due to a growing national interest in wellbeing. We test whether positive relationships at work shape greater meaningful work (MFW) and this then influences happiness and mediates the effects of PRM. We also include Human Capital (the quality of people inside the firm) and firm size as moderators and combine these all to test a moderated moderated mediation model in PROCESS. We test this on a sample of 302 New Zealand managers with time-separated data. We confirm the dimensionality and reliability of the PRM scale and find it is positively related to MFW and happiness, while MFW fully mediates the direct effect of PRM. We find interaction effects including a moderated moderated mediation effect, with the indirect effect of PRM differing depending on firm size and the strength of human capital. The implications for understanding the importance of relationships on employee happiness is discussed.

scholarly journals Waiting for the next wave: trajectories, narratives and conveying the state of public sector reform

2009 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Evert Lindquist
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
Public Management ◽  
New Public Management ◽  
Economic Transformation ◽  
The State ◽  
Government Officials ◽  
State Sector ◽  
Democratic Reform ◽  
New Public

With the adoption of the State Sector Act in 1988, the New Zealand public sector revolution was in full motion. The Act was one of many initiatives that provided a new framework for government and managing public services (Boston et al., 1996; Scott, 2001). New Zealand rapidly became the poster child for what became known as the New Public Management, and an archetype scrutinised around the world. The audacity and intellectual coherence of the New Zealand model became a standard against which the progress of other governments was judged. These reforms were part of  a larger social and economic transformation which led to dislocation and democratic reform. In the crucible of introducing and implementing these reforms, and in the inevitable re-adjustment phases, New Zealand gained a reputation for continuous reflection on its progress by its political leaders, government officials and a small band of impressive academics.

The Leeuwenhoek Lecture, 1972 - Carbohydrate transport by micro-organisms

1973 ◽  
Vol 183 (1071) ◽  
pp. 105-123 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Molecular Basis ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Black Pepper ◽  
Biological Information ◽  
Small Animals ◽  
Complete Understanding ◽  
The Past ◽  
Micro Organisms ◽  
Christopher Wren ◽  
Economic Well Being

It is 295 years almost to the day since the existence of micro-organisms was confirmed at a meeting of this Society. The minutes of that meeting of 15 November 1677 record Mr Hooke ̓s success in eliciting the appearance, in a suspension of black pepper in rainwater, of ̒. . . great numbers of exceedingly small animals swimming to and fro. They appeared of the bigness of a mite through a glass, that magnified about an hundred thousand times in bulk; and consequently it was judged, that they were near an hundred thousand times less than a mite.̓ Since some doubts had been expressed at previous meetings, the minute firmly concludes that ̒. . . there could be no fallacy in the appearance. They were seen by Mr Henshaw, Sir Christopher Wren, Sir John Hoskyns, Sir Jonas Moore, Dr Mapletoft, Mr. Hill, Dr. Croune, Dr. Grew, Mr. Aubrey, and divers others; so that there was no longer any doubt of Mr. Leewenhoeck ̓s discovery ̓. (Birch 1757.) It is not my purpose here to comment on the importance of that discovery to our physical and economic well-being, nor to describe the manner in which studies with micro-organisms have revealed much of the molecular basis of the events that enable cells to maintain and accurately to reproduce themselves. These topics have formed the subjects of previous lectures in honour of Leeuwenhoek ̓s memory. I wish to discuss a topic that, as far as I am aware, has been only touched on, once before (Gale 1957), yet that concerns the indispensable first step in the utilization of all food materials. I refer to the highly specific mechanisms that enable such food materials to enter microbial cells, and the means that regulate the operation of such systems. It is a measure of the rapidity at which biological information accrues, as well as an explanation of why a topic of such fundamental importance appears to have been neglected, that most of our still far-from-complete understanding in this area has been achieved within the past five years, and all of it since, in the first Leeuwenhoek Lecture (Fildes 1951) delivered exactly 22 years ago today, Sir Paul Fildes discussed ̒. . . the development of events which has made it convenient to foster a new branch of biology under the title Microbiology ̓.

Labor protection as a factor of improving the well-being of the personnel of the enterprise

2020 ◽  
pp. 53-58
Author(s):  
L.M. Nizova ◽  
E.A. Andreeva
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
State Policy ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The State ◽  
Labor Protection ◽  
Labor Safety

The article examines the state of labor protection in the conditions of solving strategic tasks of the state policy on preserving the life and health of employees in the course of labor activity. The analysis of the regional experience of labor protection contributes to obtaining objective facts and allows us to draw conclusions about the effectiveness of the system under consideration. Priority measures are proposed to improve the labor protection of employees of enterprises on the basis of increasing investments in human capital, improving the education and competencies of employees, forming a culture of labor safety.

STEM and Soft Occupational Competencies: Analyzing the Value of Strategic Regional Human Capital

2020 ◽  
Vol 34 (4) ◽  
pp. 356-371
Author(s):  
Fran Stewart ◽  
Minkyu Yeom ◽  
Alice Stewart
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The United States ◽  
Regional Economies ◽  
Soft Skill ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
The Public ◽  
And Mathematics ◽  
Capital Development ◽  
Economic Well Being

This research examines the distribution of STEM—science, technology, engineering, and mathematics—and soft-skill competencies in occupations within regional economies in the United States. This research explores the public policy question: Do occupational competencies offer a better measure of regional human capital than the commonly used metric of educational attainment? Policy makers at all levels of government have increasingly emphasized STEM education as vital to economic well-being. This research finds support for the importance of STEM occupational competencies to regional median wage and productivity, but findings also indicate the important contributions of “soft skills” to regional economic well-being. This suggests new avenues for region-focused training and human capital development aligned to occupational skill demands that reward workers and benefit regions.

scholarly journals An Integrated Approach to Redistribution: Issues of Policy, Economics and Information

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Mark Prebble
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Policy Development ◽  
Personal Information ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The State ◽  
Philosophical Foundations ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Right

<p>This thesis considers how best to administer redistribution policies. It focuses particularly on the information needed to assess relative circumstances, the implications of the government collecting such information, and processes by which the appropriate information may be assembled and assessed. In New Zealand, as with many other OECD nations, the Government's redistribution policies are administered through a range of different agencies, with duplication in some areas and gaps in others. An integrated approach to redistribution systems may offer a means to improve equity and efficiency. Part One discusses the assessment of relative well-being, and adopts the choice set as the intellectual device for this purpose. The time period for the assessment of income is examined in detail, with the conclusion that a long period should be used except where the individual is constrained to operate under a short time horizon. A new concept of "bankability" is developed as a means of identifying those operating under such constraints. Part Two uses the philosophical foundations of the value of privacy to develop a new statement of the right to privacy, such that everyone should be protected against the requirement to divulge information, unless that information is the "business" of another party. A view on the business of the state depends on one's ideology of the state. Since it is generally accepted in New Zealand in the late twentieth century that the state has a role in redistribution, the state has some right to collect information for that purpose. However, the rights of the state are moderated by the existence of a common law tradition of respect for individuals. A set of criteria for evaluating redistribution systems is devised in Part Three. These criteria, which include consideration of the information to be collected, individual control over personal information, and administrative simplicity, are then used to identify significant weaknesses in the systems currently used in New Zealand. The main problems identified are the collection of inadequate information, duplication, and complex institutional structures; the main virtue of the current systems is that information provided is only used for the purpose for which it was provided. An alternative approach is outlined which would address the problems while retaining the current protection of privacy interests. This thesis is a mix of inter-disciplinary academic enquiry and policy development. Part One is an amalgam of economic and philosophical approaches, Part Two involves philosophy and politics, and Part Three applies the theoretical considerations to issues of public administration.</p>

scholarly journals Height and the High Life: What Future for a Tall Story?

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy Leunig ◽  
Hans-Joachim Voth
Keyword(s):  
Health Status ◽  
Family History ◽  
Social History ◽  
Economic History ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Standard Of Living ◽  
Reliable Indicator ◽  
The Past ◽  
History Of ◽  
Developed World

This chapter discusses height as a reliable indicator of health status and standard of living. It also suggests that mapping from height to other measures of well-being has attracted the attention of economic historians. The history of heights may prove to be a useful means by which economic historians can better explain the past. The first area is social history, and in particular family history, in the developed world. The second is the economic history of those countries or areas with limited amounts of other data.

scholarly journals NEW ZEALAND HORTICULTURAL EXPORTS

HortScience ◽  
1992 ◽  
Vol 27 (6) ◽  
pp. 589a-589
Author(s):  
D. H. Turner
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Tertiary Education ◽  
Marketing Strategies ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Marketing Technology ◽  
The Past ◽  
Export Expansion ◽  
Future 2 ◽  
The Impact

New Zealand horticultural exports expanded rapidly during 1970-1990. These increases did not occur without some difficulties. Details of the export expansion including main products and major markets (such as the U. S. and Pacific Rim Countries) will be discussed. Key factors such as: 1) marketing strategies of the past, present, and future; 2) the impact of new marketing technology; and 3) importance of New Zealand image will be detailed. The role of education and technology and the skill level of New Zealand horticulture will be reviewed. This will include the New Zealand tertiary education system as well as relevant examples of how universities can assist.

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