BUSINESS ETHICS

Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 163, 7 April 1934, Page 8

BUSINESS ETHICS

Formation of Institute PROVISIONAL COUNCIL A Business and Sales Managers’ Institute has been formed in Wellington. It will function as a representative and responsible body desirous of setting and maintaining a high standard of conduct and efficiency in business management and sales management. For the time being membership is being restricted to "foundation members” with the status of members and associate members. Seven years’ service as a business or sales manager is a necessary qualification for admission as a “member” and four years in the case of an “associate member.” Tlie institute is now well founded in Wellington, and has been incorporated. this as the result of the efforts of an enthusiastic committee which has been working for some months. It is proposed to found branches in the other main centres of the Dominion at an early date. The provisional council which has been set up consists of the following: Chairman. Lieut.-Colonel JI. E. Avery. C.M.G.. D.S.O. (general manager. Ford Sales and Service Ltd.) ; members. Messrs. A. C. Dickson (Wellington manager, International Correspondence School, N.Z., Ltd.), A. M. Fleming (Government Life Insurance Department), C. C. Gill (Wellington manager. Fassette and Johnson Ltd.). E. R. Render (Wellington manager. Aulsebrook and Co.. Ltd.). C. M. Turnbull (managing director. The T.P.R. Printing Co.. Ltd.) : hon. secretary and treasurer. Mr. W. F. Morrison (secretary, Armstrong and Springhall Ltd.) : assistant hon. secretary, Mr. L. H. Smith (departmental manager. Armstrong and Springhall Ltd.).