NZ Europeans make up 80% of business leaders, survey shows

NZ Europeans make up 80% of business leaders, survey shows
Victoria Young
A major survey of 113,000 employees at 39 different Kiwi firms has found less than 20 percent of leaders surveyed were not New Zealand Europeans. This year is the first that corporate collective Champions for Change could extract meaningful ethnic leadership data from its annual diversity survey after too few employees responded to the first one. The group’s co-chair, Westpac chief executive David McLean, said while the data need improvement “it is clear there are low levels of Maori and Pacific people coming through to leadership lev...

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