comparative value priorities of chinese and new zealand

As an example, the New Zealand 2025 Taskforce charged with recommending ways to
improve productivity and close the income gap with Australia has a membership
consisting of,
� Dr. Don Brash, a career government bureaucrat and NGO appointee is chair,
� Hon David Caygill: former Minister of Finance, current chair of the Electricity
Commission, chair of the forthcoming ACC Review, and member of the
Regulatory Responsibility Taskforce
� Jeremy Moon: founder and chief executive of Icebreaker and chair of Better by
Design, a unit within New Zealand Trade and Enterprise, while a business
entrepreneur, he is now drawn into the fold of the NZT&E government
organisation
� Judith Sloan: Commissioner (part-time) at the Australian Productivity
Commission and Commissioner at the Australian Fair Pay Commission
� Dr Bryce Wilkinson: Director of Capital Economics, with 12 years experience in
public policy analysis at the Treasury and 12 years with an investment bank
Good intentions and increased activity are no substitute for an accurate understanding.
In these generally bureaucratic appointees we see that the NZ Government cannot take
off the blinders of socialism and government as the solution. Though the taskforce did
identify government as the problem in the first of their reports 14 , they proposed
changing government policy as solutions. Hunter (1992) believes, “While everyone
participates in the construction of their own private worlds, the development and
articulation of the more elaborate systems of meaning, including the realm of public
culture, falls more or less exclusively to the realm of elites. They are the ones who
provide the concepts, supply the language, and explicate the logic of public discourse.”
If the elites in New Zealand do not understand the roots of the business development
problems, any solution will be accidental.
Reverse-Scored Items: Designing Surveys to Fit Preconceived Notions of
Reviewers
This section discussing reverse-scored item effects is relatively long for an issue not
directly related to the research questions; however, the issue is of significant importance
of the instrument operationalising the implicit behavioural theory of leadership.
Reverse-scored items are negatively worded items. They do not necessarily contain a
14 www.2025taskforce.govt.nz/pdfs/2025tf-1streport-nov09.pdf
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