The new government super ministry, the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MoBIE), is consulting on a high- level design aiming to group the many disparate activities of its four component ministries and departments into a coherent group.
Acting chief executive David Smol said MoBIE, which includes the former ministries of Economic Development and Science and Innovation, the former departments of Building and Housing and Labour, for now is operating in a "federal" structure of four main operating arms, and working towards a single corporate group.
That will involve creating single human resources and IT groups as well as creating one set of books for the new ministry and one common set of employment arrangements.
Culture change is part of that.
Smol said he is trying to build a new culture that will support what the new ministry has been tasked with achieving.
"It's an opportunity to make conscious decisions about the culture we are trying to build," he said.
That is a culture that is engaged, collaborative, action- oriented, and that is about getting things done and striving to find better ways to do business, he said.
Smol said in doing so, Mobie will not be sticking rigidly to any particular methodology, such as Six Sigma or Kaizen. Instead it wants to be "grounded in common sense".
"We're trying to take an approach that makes sense for a public organisation with public accountability," he said.
"In each, people have to think about what works and how to work effectively," he said.
Overall that will be about empowering people within clear priorities and accountabilities.
Smol said there is a lot of detail to work through on how that will operate.
In policy areas, the aim is to strengthen linkages between the new ministry's work on innovation and economic development, and also between its work on skills and economic development.
A more integrated approach will also benefit efforts to improve access to international capital markets and export growth, he said.
Also to be grouped together are functions that have a regulatory dimension in areas such as health and safety and energy, and in areas such as market services, with the aim to improve the interface between business and government.
While it has been called a "super ministry" in the media, Smol points out that with 3500 staff, the new ministry is smaller than the Ministry of Social Development and equivalent organisations in other countries.
With such diverse activities, the challenge will be to organise activities in ways where closer integration makes sense, to deliver stronger economic outcomes for New Zealand.
Smol said the exercise is an opportunity to be more effective.
That has been well understood by staff, whom he said are "up for it and want to make it work".
- ? Fairfax NZ News
Source: http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/industries/7287065/Super-ministry-in-culture-change
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