Organizations in New Zealand Context

This paper discusses the significance of Treaty of Waitangi in New Zealand business operations and explores its impact on Rotorua Lake Development. It also highlights the importance of working with Maori businesses and the recent developmental approach towards urban sustainability.

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Introduction
Business in the New Zealand context offered comprehensive insights and established a
pathway to wide-ranging Maori and Non-Maori businesses. It is the value of the Treaty of
Waitangi (TOW) that people in New Zealand business operate across well-equipped practice
areas to offer commercial, strategic as well as regulatory propositions (Came, Cornes &
McCreanor, 2018). New Zealand organisations exhibit a high level of commitment towards
Maori clients and relentlessly endeavour to develop the way the New Zealanders work. Such
behaviour not only signifies efficiently understanding clients but further proving a high level of
assurance and loyalty to sustainable associations and improving the way organisations
competently offer services to the client in these areas (Wilson, 2017). The following paper will
evaluate the significance of principles laid by the Treaty of Waitangi in the New Zealand
business operations. Furthermore, the paper will significantly explore ways in which these
principles of the TOW have impacted and will pose implications in the potential strategies of the
Rotorua Lakefront development plans.
Discussion
Treaty of Waitangi significance on New Zealand business
The Treaty of Waitangi (TOW) is identified as an exclusive agreement of New Zealand
that was signed between the Queen of England and the Maori chiefs as a significant covenant
during the 1840’s (Came, Cornes & McCreanor, 2018). The primary purpose of the Treaty was
to facilitate the British colonisers and the Maori communities to live in an amalgamation in New
Zealand under the implication of a universal set of regulations and agreements. Martin, (2015)
denotes that the TOW serves significant impact as it efficiently ensures rights and authorities of
both the Maori and Pakeha communities. Furthermore, one of the criticalities of the Treaty lied

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on successfully identifying the possessions and rights of Maori land and properties and further
protecting their lifestyles and other possessions (Wilson, 2017). The TOW also held the
government accountable for addressing the grievances of Indigenous people and further
establishes egalitarianism and fairness among the population of New Zealand.
The TOW thus has been posing significant implications on New Zealanders in several
ways specifically in ways they have been operating their businesses. Stark, (2015) reveals that
the influx of British colonizers in New Zealand led to the loss of land from the Maoris .
However, the principles set by the TOW ensure the rights and authorities of Maori resulting in
the establishment of large settlements from monetary terms and land. Several iwi communities
have been employing such strategies to proficiently execute business and further comprise vital
employers in New Zealand such as Wakatu Corporate (Wilson, 2017). The TOW principles
further serve critical roles in New Zealand business as it tends to offer the Maori communities
with similar authorities as the Pakeha concerning executing businesses. However, Jacobson et
al., (2016) mention that there can be found no concrete list of treaty principles. Furthermore,
official documents referred to the treaty values and beliefs through generalized terms without
incorporating the actual treaty transcript. Such a decision was made as the English, and Maori
versions of the agreement do not provide direct translations of each other thus resulting in higher
levels of misinterpretations.
Working with Maori business
Brown, (2014) found that acknowledging the Treaty can be beneficial for the New
Zealanders not only regarding employing people from Maori communities but also execute its
business with Marion enterprises. Reports reveal that Maori enterprises comprise around 2% of
the nation’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) with approximate annual revenue of over 2.5 billion

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dollars. However, as the Treaty’s principles of participation significantly correspond to the
incorporation of Maori practices values and dealing directly with the Maori and as well as
execute business can be identified as a valuable insight into the way the principles are
implemented and exercised into practice (Jacobson et al., 2016).
Studies by Stark, (2015) state that by 2021, almost half of the New Zealand Maori
population is estimated to be around 25 years of age or younger. The statistics, however,
indicates that represents youthful cultural patterns and will be identified as a fundamental asset in
the ever-ageing workforce. For example, additional insight into the statistics reveals that Maori
youth aged 15 to 24 are estimated to represent around 26% of the total New Zealand youth
population or younger labour force (Brown, 2014). As a result, by preventing these transitions
and harnessing the skills and expertise as well as exuberance which Maori possess, organisations
in New Zealand will be able to establish a firm groundwork for prospective growth in both local
as well as international market. However, there are certain aspects which are not commonly been
applied in contemporary business practices is the use of spirituality. Kelsey, (2015) noted that
spirituality along with an elevated ethical responsibility tends to have a direct impact on the
company's business success. For example, a particular Maori spiritual procedure is recognised as
uplifting Tapu from a worksite or piece of machinery that has been incorporated in an accident
causing death (Brown, 2014). However, in such critical scenarios, there can be witnessed forms
of casualty which can result in an unconstructive work environment as a whole. However,
eradication of tapu is regarded as a form of cleansing ritual facilitating the spirits to be
augmented from the region where the casualty has taken place. Thus this can be recognised as
procedures that can be implemented by all employees and can further develop a sense of
concluding the situation (Martin, 2015).

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Rotorua lake significance on local communities
Lake Rotorua is known as the largest lake in the Bay of plenty region along with the most
productive and resourceful trout fishery in New Zealand (Kelsey, 2015). With the town Rotorua
on its shores it is much significant for its visual cultural as well as recreational values and thus is
utilised by locals and tourists at a considerable rate. However, reports on Rotorua lakefront
reveal that the longest running environmental issue has been the decline in water quality related
to the release of nitrogen and phosphorus from land use activities. According to Smith et al.,
(2016) this has resulted in Lake Rotorua to be degraded and get affected sporadically from algal
blooms. Webster & Cheyne, (2017) state that such a decline in water quality has been posing and
constructive impact on fisheries and tourism and thus is consequential to the business revenue
and sales for the Maori communities.
This in the view of Field et al., (2015) has led the Maori community to raise their voice
against the decline in water quality transport the recent development of the Lakefront. The
Rotorua lake development, however, is crucial for Te Awara, who viewed the Rotorua lakefront
as taonga. Their association with TeArawa lakes along with the environment continues to be
essential foundations for their social recognition, integrity as well as Tikanga and Kawa (Smith
et al., 2016). The recent lake development in Rotorua has been identified as a developmental
approach that has been taken to reduce nutrient loss from urban commercial as well as the rural
land of the Maoris and further restore and safeguard the quality of the Rotorua Lakes.
Recent Lake developmental approach
Rotorua lakefront and its approach towards urban sustainability signify in-depth
interconnectedness between cities and Maori communities with the natural environment (Field et
al., 2015). Globally recognised for its natural environment, Toronto Royal lakefront has been

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taking significant strategies towards social equality water custodianship and sustainable as well
as appropriate economic development. Rotorua current lake development is identified to be
much in correspondence with a global perception that all stakeholders are required to be
integrated into driving sustainable development at both local levels as well as social-cultural and
economic level (Webster & Cheyne, 2017).
Impact of TOW principle on Rotorua Lake Development
Lake Rotorua in adherence to the principle of partnership according to the Treaty of
Waitangi has aimed to undertake the legacy in the lake and further curtail the impact of high
nutrient. The current lake development of nutrient reduction targets of around 250 tonnes of
Nitrogen and 10 tonnes of phosphorus for current input to Rotorua lake is estimated to be
achieved in a 20-year timeframe (Martin, 2015). The new developmental approach has been
related to the cultural enhancement of the Maori communities by incorporating Tiara narratives
and celebrating the past as well as the future of the local communities by connecting land to the
lake (Webster & Cheyne, 2017). Rotorua projects’ primary strategy lied on preserving the
natural environment of the area and further ensuring that the developments are successfully
positioned on the lakefront which would further improve the area for the future generations of
the Maoris.
Recommendations
Smith et al., (2016) stated that the recently strategised developmental plan of Lake
Rotorua has involved indigenous communities in determining the issues which may need to be
addressed for the improvement of the Rotorua district. The development of the strategy with
local communities has been proposed to attend an understanding of any issues and challenges
along with the perceived and fairness in the current Regime of various other stakeholders (Field

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et al., 2015).
Conclusion
Therefore, from the above discussion, it can be stated that the recent Rotorua Lake
development has been essentially strategist according to the principle of participation mention in
the Treaty of Waitangi to determine the cultural identity and improve employability rate of the
Maori communities. As Maori values correspond to inclusion, harmony and cooperation
participation, they tend to form a strong foundation for the organisations' direction in New
Zealand. Such incorporation of spiritual procedures also reinforce employee associations and has
thus proven to be highly efficient and still considerably unevaluated tool while intending to seek
for a competitive advantage in the industry.

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