NZBusiness+Management - June 2018

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MANAGEMENT

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care of her young family.

DO YOU THINK THIS CAN APPLY IN ANY SORT OF
BUSINESS? OR DOES YOUR BUSINESS LEND ITSELF
MORE TO BEING SO FLEXIBLE?
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these practices can sometimes be harder
for larger organisations as progress must be
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the way forward for many businesses.
We have several sites and employees
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been ensuring all our people feel equally
empowered and supported to embrace
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Unilever has placed a large emphasis on
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our people.

COULD YOU OUTLINE SOME OF THE OTHER
INITIATIVES YOU ARE UNDERTAKING?
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proud of:
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number of women in our leadership team
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over time.
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New Zealand and Australia. We strongly
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surrounds domestic violence.
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we have never had a gender pay gap in our
New Zealand business.

• Driving change outside of business e.g.
  Unstereotype: We are challenging our
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concentrating on changing and upgrading the structure

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digital business.

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it shows that they are shifting perspective on how to obtain

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media release.

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biggest priority.

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technology agenda impact. The business leaders were all from

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business progress.

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See gartner.com

Global CEOs see

growth as top priority