After reading a policy document, which I would not normally choose to share with anyone, I began to think about leadership and the consequences of leaders' actions when a business that is already producing the goods needs to be actively improved.

1. After reading a policy document, which I would not normally choose to share with anyone, I began to think
about leadership and the consequences of leaders' actions when a business that is already producing the
goods needs to be actively improved.
The documented CIPD statement of policy, made in July of this year, clearly favours a programme that
will benefit working people by improving their daily lives and their working lives. The output and
efficiencies of the British economy, after the Global Financial Crisis, have received some in-depth
analysis in this fascinating document. This policy document should motivate any government recently
voting into power.
I was considering New Zealand at the same time I was reading the policy findings.
The UK is ranks 6th in the GSeven for productivity, and is 13th internationally. It's easy for the UK. New
Zealand ranks at number 28 globally and has a Gross Domestic Product that is 50% lower than the UK.
whilst things are getting better, it will take significant improvements for NZ to get closer to other countries
in the OECD.
According to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, earlier in the year, there's a
27 percent gap in productivity between New Zealand and the other member countries.

2. While the GDP of New Zealand, per capita, is 20% lower than is the average for other OECD countries, it
is on record that our current policies should be generating twenty percent more than the other countries.
The affect this is having on our country is not a positive one, for the general population and the prospect
for the country.
I believe that there is a very real partnership between productivity and leadership.|It is obvious to me that
productivity and leadership go hand in hand.| is actually very closely aligned with leadership.The role of a
leader is to concentrate on solving business challenges and finding out how to get things working as they
should .Leaders should be more concerned with how things should be and less about how busy things
need to be. In the UK, the government makes more of a habit of intervening than the government of New
Zealand, but in relation to leadership in particular there are some fascinating notions in the report.
Do you hope to improve the impact of your leadership?
By taking a look at the report, and the insights it provides, you can apply the same thought processes to
New Zealand.
 Taking a good look at the employment market in the UK will help to build productivity by
determining the skills most in demand, presently and in the future.
 The real issues that lie behind low paid jobs in the UK need to be addressed.
 Keep developing policies that will result in greater levels of senior level employment prospects.
 Take a long term approach to corporate leadership with the focus on people rather than practical
processes. This will allow for more diversification, with more equal opportunities for both genders
in executive positions and better ways to report how employee data is managed and compiled.
 Give younger people more access to better career information and free advice from career
specialists, building stronger ties between education and businesses and actively promoting trade
apprenticeships, making sure the national curriculum includes tuition about business enterprise.
 Prepare all workers well in advance for their retirement, with pension information being available
to employers, along with proper professional support and technological processes to enroll
workers automatically, offering users the ability to manage a tax-efficient pension.
 Implement a more rewarding welfare system with greater incentives in the Universal Credit
system that helps people on a low income, by issuing guides for employers and helping them to
offer more hours of employment to their workers.
 Tax-free allowances should be extended in order to protect the livelihoods of those working on
minimum wage, which should be adjusted to match the rate of inflation, and no-one on a low
income should be made to pay tax.
 Employees should be protected through a more fluid approach to employment regulation, so that
businesses are able to be more innovative.
All workers should be offered employment terms and conditions formally in writing by right of law, and
exclusivity clauses should not be allowed in zero-hours contracts. Anyone working for 12 months or more
on this type of contract should have their hours fixed after that time.