EXECUTIVES OF BUSINESSES

Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26529, 18 September 1951, Page 8

EXECUTIVES OF BUSINESSES

CONFERENCE ARRANGED IN CHRISTCHURCH

To emphasise that the study of the theory of management is of particular importance in business relationships to-day a two-day conference for directors, executives, departmental managers and employers will be held by the New Zealand Institute of Industrial Management in Christchurch next month.

The institute has branches in the four main centres and in the past has conducted courses for business executives and foremen, but the conference next month will be the first to be Dominion-wide and the first to be comprised of “top” executives. Already, more than 50 men holding executives positions in industries and businesses throughout New Zealand have notified the institute that they will be attending the conference, which will be held at Canterbury University College on October 11 and 12.

On the first day there will be a paper in the morning by Mr R. J. Worssam, resident director of the Vacuum Oil Company, on “Management and Public Relations.” The other paper that day will be “Human Relationships in Management,” by Mr W. Calder Mackay, of Auckland. During the morning of the second day Mr R. D. Greenwood, managing-director of the National Carbon Company, Wellington, will speak on management controls, and in the evening papers on training for managements will be give by Dr. H. R. Hulme, Rector of Canterbury University College, and Mr E. Hitchcock, formerly general manager of the Municipal Electricity Department. After every paper there will be a discussion by those attending the conference.