Challenges Faced By New Zealand's Chief Executives In Implications For Management Skills

Thesis Statement

Discuss about the Organization Behavior for New Zealand's Management Skills.
 

This essay critically assesses as well as evaluates the article of ‘the critical challenges facing New Zealand’s chief executives: implications for management skills’ by Hutchinson & Boxall. Along with this, this essay identifies a relevant thesis statement or question from the article. This research essay explains the strengths and weaknesses of the article on the basis of the selects thesis statement or question. In addition to this, this paper explains the key point of this study and provides a solid conclusion about the research article.  

The thesis statement of this research essay is “to identify the challenges faced by chief executive in implications for New Zealand’s management skills in the current business environment, and these challenges have an effect on the management ability of managing uncertainty and renewal, managing stakeholders and managing people and limited resources.”

On the basis of the above thesis statement, it can be stated that this article is effective to evaluate and find out the solution this thesis statement. The main strength of this article is data collection way as it used survey method to collect the data that is an appropriate way to resolve the research problem. This article survey conducted to the chief executives of New Zealand’s 1000 largest organizations from across the public, private and not-for-profit sectors (Hutchison and Boxall, 2014).  The survey method would be appropriate way to collect current and primary data on the problem rather than use the past or secondary data or information to solve the research problem. The quantitative section of the survey, open-ended questions, the appropriate sampling and response rate indicated the strength of this article/research. Primary data through apply survey method would be enhance the reliability and credibility of the research study and justified the finding and result of the research study (Vorhies and Morgan, 2005).

Moreover, the strength of this article is also included the secondary data or previous research on this topic that maintain the reliability and credibility of the outcomes of this research study.  This study is review recent articles or views of the authors or scholars and has not left out any references that enhance credibility of the study outcomes. The proper list of the references, appropriate formation of the research study, clearly written and language is unbiased that is easy to understand of the readers are the main strengths of this study (Kuada, 2012). In addition, this research aim, objectives, and hypothesis are not clearly stated that is the weakness of this article/study. Variables types such as independent and dependent are not clearly defined that affected the reliability and validity of the research outcome/conclusion.

On the basis of the results of the study, it can be stated that management capabilities are important for New Zealand and three fundamental sets of managerial skills are basic requirement of the management. Three fundamental sets of managerial skills are managing uncertainty and renewal; managing stakeholders and partners; and managing people and internal resources (Luo and Bhattacharya, 2006). Moreover, this article explained that in a challenging economic environment and hanging markets and technologies, New Zealand’s chief executives face challenges in that the support of stakeholders. It indicated that due to the demographic wave of baby-boomer retirements, New Zealand’s chief executives face a ‘war for talent’ both national and international level that affected the leadership positions. In the private sector of New Zealand, chief executives are considering and reframing their business models to meet fast-paced and ambiguous change (Lindon, Holmes and Nicholson, 2006). Moreover, in public and not-for-profit organizations of New Zealand, chief executives are changing to a constrained funding base over that they have little control, so they need to find ways of enhance funding in a high demands and escalating costs climate.

This article results expressed accurate finding that current environment created some major challenges for management skills development that are affected their abilities, which grouped into three fundamental sets of managerial skills categories. This article properly described the current issues faced by the New Zealand’s chief executives that are faced issued in renew and restructure an organization effectively. Moreover, managers are handled better and able to deal with systematic problems (Hutchinson & Boxall, 2014). In addition, HR specialists need to be focused on the development of the skills of the employees and take part themselves in developmental skills processes that bridge internal and external boundaries.

This article included previous studies or literature in appropriate manner in this study to describe the current challenges facing New Zealand’s chief executives. This study helped me to understand the above defined the thesis statement and understand the main research problem or topic. In this article, a direct method of data collection through survey questionnaire with New Zealand’s chief executives was applied that enhance my understanding regarding the data collection method, sample selection for represent population and ways of represent data collection results (Kulkarni, Aziz, Shams and Busse, 2009). The article conclusion indicates proper review of literature, data collection and sampling technique justifies that enhance my research knowledge and skills.

 This article explains the critical challenges facing by the New Zealand’s chief executives at present times by included view of different authors in literature review and views of survey questionnaire participants (Datta, Guthrie and Wright, 2005). Data collection through New Zealand’s chief executives’ questionnaire survey as apply the random sampling indicated use of sampling method and sample selection present population regarding the research study. This article study enhance my research knowledge, skill and ability through properly use of primary and secondary data collection methods, conduct literature review, sampling method and proper conclusion. This article helped me to practical implication of the classroom discussion regarding the data collection methods, sampling methods and literature review conduct and ways to reach an outcome or conclusion of the study (Johnson and Christensen, 2010).

Viewpoint About the Article

Moreover, I am agree with the above defined thesis statement of this paper after the reading of the article that is challenges faced by New Zealand’s chief executive in implications for management skills in the current environment and these challenges impacted on the management ability related to manage uncertainty and renewal, manage stakeholders and manage people and limited resources (Goddard and Melville, 2004).. The thesis statement and article indicated that due to the challenging economic environment and rapid changing markets and technologies, New Zealand’s chief executives face challenges currently in the market. New Zealand’s chief executives face a war for talent due to the demographic wave of baby-boomer retirements and shortage of the talented workers in the labor market.

In addition, the article is explained the fast-paced and ambiguous changes, so that the chief executives of private sector are required reconsidering and reframing their business models to survive and maintain their business in the complex business environment. I am agreed with the thesis statement of the article, due to the rapid changes in the technology and business environment or market created the challenges of the management (Wright, Brand, Dunn and Spindler, 2007). Therefore, they may be required reframing and modifying in their operations, products and process to face the current challenges of the market for surviving and maintain their position. I am agreed that the current complex business environment poses some major challenges for the New Zealand’s chief executives. Moreover, I am also agreed with the thesis statement of the article that the chief executives of the public and not-for-profit organizations are facing challenged in fund raising and control of funding due to escalating costs and need to do more with fewer funds or less with fewer funds (Vigoda-Gadot, 2007). This article would be more appropriate to explain the challenges faced by the chief executives in private, public and not-for-profit organizations.

The article key points are fast-changing and ambiguous environment; due to this environment, managers need improved their capabilities and improved political and interpersonal skills in managing uncertainty and organizational renewal, in managing a complex web of relationships with stakeholders and in managing people and limited resources. The other key point of this article is HR specialists should design, foster and model the developmental processes in the organization to support these managerial skills (Grant and Booth, 2009). The article finding that three fundamental management skill needs to develop in the chief executives these are ability to manage or face uncertainty and renewal, manage and properly deal with the stakeholders and business partners, and manage or handle and proper utilize of people and limited resources.

Conclusion

On the basis of the above defined thesis statement and article summary, it can be concluded that the thesis statement is related to the article topic or research problem topic that justified the key points of research finding or conclusion. The strengths of this article are proper used of primary data collection (questionnaire survey) and secondary data collection (literature review) methods, random sampling method, discussion, data analysis and appropriate conclusion. In addition, weaknesses of this article are not properly defined research aim, objectives, questions, hypothesis and thesis statement.

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