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Purpose: Using the conservation of resource theory, the purpose of this paper is to investigate the potentially positive influence of job stress on creativity through the resource caravan approach. The influence of job stress directly and as a moderator of psychological capital (PsyCap) is explored. Finally, the influence of stress on creativity is investigated as a boundary condition that impacts on the PsyCap-creativity relationship via job satisfaction. Design/methodology/approach: Relationships were tested on two samples: (1) an international employee cohort (n = 269) and (2) a New Zealand employee sample (n = 475) and similar effects were found in both studies. Findings: PsyCap was found to influence job satisfaction and creativity, with job satisfaction partially mediating this direct effect. Job stress has a positive moderation effect with PsyCap toward creativity, supporting Conservation of Resources theory, which suggests that high PsyCap individuals would have the psychological resources to leverage stress beneficially, making their behaviors more creative. Significant moderated mediation effects indicate complex indirect effects with PsyCap on creativity (via job satisfaction) increasing as job stress gets higher. Practical implications: This study calls for researchers' attention toward potentially positive influences of stress when considered in combination with high psychological resources. Practical implications focus manager's and leader's attention toward the enhancement of employees' psychological resources for its stress and creativity related benefits. Originality/value: The findings provide new theoretical support for understanding how stress can positively influence creativity. The use of two samples improves confidence in these findings. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Rambling with human and non‐human beings with(in) the Wairarapa for my doctoral fieldwork was both affecting and creative. This paper recounts that period and contends that, on reflection, an affective creativity helped me to address my central thesis argument, which is broadly about revisioning arcadia. From a New Zealand perspective, arcadia is usually framed as a picturesque rural paradise, often illustrated with peaceful grazing stock, lush green grass and snow‐tipped mountains. However, even though this view of arcadia appears simple, the visions and ideologies of New Zealand arcadianism are actually complicated narratives that are underpinned by hyper‐masculinity and white human‐centrism. Thus, my fieldwork intended to interrogate these ideas by carrying out research alongside ten Pākehā women who lived on the land in the Wairarapa. Theoretically infused with the more‐than‐human feminism of Val Plumwood, the notions of affect and the reflections of Donna Haraway, I designed an interview process that emphasised embodiment, sensuality and meaning by using a blend of sit‐down interviewing, ethnographic ventures, and photography. Driven by the philosophical tenets of feminism and more‐than‐human perspectives, I found that producing the idea of affective creativity intersected these theoretical strands rather fruitfully. This journey has not been without its problems though and I have needed to draw on multiple creative avenues outside of Geography so as to respect the more‐than‐human presences and participants' voices within this project. Thus, this paper contributes to the field of Geography by contending that the use of affective creativity is an interesting way of expressing and intersecting more‐than‐human and feminist geographies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

An on-line survey of 102 (51 females; undergraduate and graduate) university students with ASD across Australia and New Zealand examined student characteristics and satisfaction with academic and non-academic supports. A broad range of disciplines were studied, and the participants' reported strengths included a passion for learning, strong technology skills, and creative thoughts. The participants' greatest concerns were academic requirements and mental health, including high rates of self-harm and suicidal ideation. Despite support satisfaction ratings being high, support usage was low, possibly indicating a mismatch of supports and needs, lack of awareness of available supports, and/or poor advocacy skills. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Following recent increases in the diversity of students, technologies, pedagogies and environments, New Zealand classrooms are sites of growing complexity. Tasked with covering a broad range of disciplines within each school day, opportunities for subject integration are of increasing value to busy teachers. Developing upon a previous piece of research (Coleman & Davies, 2018), this project sought to gain student engagement in mathematics through a dramatic framework. A key factor in developing adaptable, responsive and capable learners, creativity is an area of intense educational interest and yet substantial confusion (Jefferson & Anderson, 2017). Focusing upon the activation of students' creative capacities through drama, this project offers suggestions for future praxis and the development of classrooms that invite creativity. We began by establishing a fictional pre-text closely related to their earlier studies of insects. Recruited to assist Professor Lee--a flea circus owner, with the redesign of her circus, this pretext deliberately offered opportunities for mathematics integration. When planning we predicted the need for students to engage with numbers and measurement, yet remained responsive to opportunities arising from the drama or instigated by the students themselves. Over the five drama-maths sessions, we collaborated with students both in and out of role, to design, plan and prepare a new cockroach circus extravaganza. We generated data for the research through reflective journal entries, student work, drama based research and focus groups. Our findings indicate an enthusiasm for the use of drama to engage students and make mathematics meaningful and highlight the vital elements for collaboration and creativity. Three distinct elements appear crucial to engaging in an effective drama-maths unit: a sense of unity in pursuing a common goal, the value of the affective and embodied elements associated with drama, and cultivation of skills for collaboration. While this project bolsters existing rhetoric surrounding STEAM integration, it advocates for further development around existing notions of collaboration for 21st century learning. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Tool making has been proposed as a key force in driving the complexity of human material culture. The ontogeny of tool‐related behaviors hinges on social, representational, and creative factors. In this study, we test the associations between these factors in development across two different cultures. Results of Study 1 with 5‐to‐6‐year‐old Turkish children in dyadic or individual settings show that tool making is facilitated by social interaction, hierarchical representation, and creative abilities. Results of a second explorative study comparing the Turkish sample with a sample of 5‐to‐6‐year‐old children in New Zealand suggest that tool innovation might be affected by culture, and that the role of cognitive and creative factors diminishes through social interaction in tool making. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

INTRODUCTION: Achieving desired health outcomes in primary care can be challenging because of dissonance between the theory and reality of medicine, inadequate understanding of patient perspectives and priorities regarding wellness, wellbeing and goals of treatment, and under-emphasis of the concept of whole-person care in the doctor–patient relationship. ASSESSMENT OF PROBLEMS: Anticipated dissonance in the doctor–patient relationship was explored using a self-designed audit, which also functioned as an educational and engagement tool. Over a 12-month period, 282 adult patients (aged 24–94 years) provided responses to a question asking them to describe their best day in the context of their current health status. These responses were then entered into the Classifications field of the practice's patient management system. RESULTS OF ASSESSMENT: Most respondents appreciated the opportunity, with a small number commenting on the challenging nature of the question. STRATEGIES FOR QUALITY IMPROVEMENT: Entering audit findings into the patient's clinical record in a format accessible to all clinical staff enables increased opportunity for patients to be valued and engaged with. Goal setting and therapeutic choices can be made in the light of a better understanding of what matters most to the patient. LESSONS AND MESSAGES: This project provided valuable and, at times surprising, information to clinical consultations that had not previously been obtained from or offered by patients. Such information requires an intentional, engaged and collaborative interaction with the patient, and enhances patient-centric consultations with a focus on whole-person care and wellness in the journey to therapeutic goals and health outcomes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Although there is abundance of research on Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ) in offices, aspects beyond IEQ that can affect occupants' satisfaction and performance are not well understood. Additionally, rapid adaptation of certification schemes and scarcity of evidence in evaluating if the workplaces with these schemes outperform other workplaces necessitate research in this area. In this study, a total of 1403 Post-Occupancy Evaluation surveys from 14 open-plan offices (10 WELL-certified and 4 uncertified) in Australia, New Zealand and Hong Kong were analysed. Key drivers of productivity, creativity, and health were investigated. Satisfaction with visual privacy and access to the outdoor environment emerged as key predictors for productivity, and layout and interior design was the main predictor for creativity. Organizational aspects were the key drivers for mental health; privacy and IEQ for physical health; and privacy and connection to the outdoor environment for overall health. The five offices that achieved the highest satisfaction in layout and interior design, IEQ, privacy and connection to the outdoor environment, and organizational aspects were all WELL certified, so a comparison was conducted between WELL and non-WELL offices. Satisfaction with the physical configuration of the space and organizational aspects were generally higher in WELL-certified offices. There were no significant differences in health between WELL and non-WELL offices, however fewer Sick Building Syndrome (SBS) complaints and musculoskeletal discomfort were less reported in WELL offices. More than 20% of respondents were dissatisfied with the physical environment regardless of being WELL or non-WELL certified. • Visual privacy and outdoor access are key predictors for productivity. • Layout and interior design is the main predictor for creativity. • Organizational aspects, privacy, IEQ and outdoor connection are key drivers for health. • Physical space and organizational aspects are higher in WELL-certified offices. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Copyright's exceptions are being taken seriously: a number of jurisdictions have expanded their exceptions by granting new broad user rights, some going so far as to enact fair use. The Australian Copyright Law Review Commission (ALRC), when tasked with determining whether copyright exceptions were fit for purpose, concluded that the expansion of copyright exceptions was necessary if copyright was to remain as a central driver of creation and innovation in Australia. The ALRC found that creativity and innovation was being stifled by unnecessarily and unjustified narrow and antiquated exceptions and people were unwittingly infringing copyright simply by engaging in reasonable everyday activities. The ALRC recommended fair use as the way of remedying copyright's ills. The article argues that New Zealand should adopt a broad fair use right as that proposed by the ALRC. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on a qualitative study conducted in Taiwan which aims to investigate the strategies used by newly graduated nurses (NGNs) to gain self-confidence during their early career. Topics include development of knowledge enhancement, clinical skills learning and self-exploration, need of development of programs that increases the empowerment and efficacy of nurses and improvement of the quality of patient care and reduce nurse turnover.

Our study explored undergraduates’ experiences of the research culture at a research-intensive university in southern New Zealand. In 2009, 1281 students responded to a survey that probed aspects of the research culture. Data were analysed through descriptive statistics and an inductive analysis of comments. Survey results for final-year students compared very favourably to students at UK and Canadian research-intensive universities and, indeed, our students reported higher ratings for some measures. It was clear there was increased awareness and experience of research in more advanced years of study. Overall, undergraduates reported mainly positive experiences of the research culture, such as increased understanding of the topic, greater motivation and inspiration, as well as learning research skills and practical applications of theory. Although encouraged by the results, there is much room for improvement. First-year students have lower levels of awareness of the research culture and few opportunities to engage in research. Current initiatives are underway to raise the profile of undergraduate research and it is hoped that surveys in future years will demonstrate an improvement in student realisation of the research culture within which they study. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Although baby boomers constitute an attractive market segment in terms of spending power and size, they have been largely ignored and/or misunderstood by advertisers. This article presents the results of qualitative research into New Zealand baby boomers' responses to advertisements for glasses as a specific health-related product. Key themes emphasize an advertisement's “relate-ability”; the use of “real” characters; the importance of narrative in engaging the viewer; and the standout design elements of information intensity, humor, and point of difference. Themes are related to advertisements for glasses and illustrated in a mock-up “ideal ad” for glasses. Finally, practical recommendations are made for more effective advertising of glasses to baby boomers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses examples of transformative works in various creative genres such as artistic works, literary works and musical works. It refers to New Zealand copyright law that continues to act as barrier to the creation of transformative works unless there is reform and as long as copyright disincentivises the creation of transformative works. It suggests for New Zealand to review its copyright law to include a fair use exception to copyright infringement for transformative works.

This article uses the theoretical framework provided by social models of addiction to interpret freelance film production workers’ subjective experiences of project-based labour. The article suggests that the structural conditions of project-based labour within the film industry create a subjective experience in which the financial, creative, social and emotional rewards of employment are interspersed with the anxieties of repeated unemployment. The stark contrast between highly gratifying periods in work and highly aversive periods in between work produces an addictive psycho-social dynamic that repeatedly draws freelance production workers back into the industry. This process can only be fully understood by considering the relationship between employment conditions and subjective experiences as an integrated whole. The development of freelance film production workers’ addictive relationships with the film industry is illustrated using qualitative data from in-depth interviews with 11 male and 10 female New Zealand freelance film production workers. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Kiwiana refers to popular cultural items that distinctly reference New Zealand. This research focuses on the interplay between the material and social worlds, as attitudes to traditional items have evolved to a new, highly commercial, phase. The makers and consumers of new items that draw on the old kiwiana references, ignore, defy, or have simply moved on from the hazardous debates about cross-cultural appropriation. In the face of globalization and the flood of mass consumer items into local markets, the revival and recasting of kiwiana can be explained as an eager search for items that express a bicultural localism. This research demonstrates how nostalgia, creativity and design entrepreneurship can amalgamate to convey a confident nationalism. The revised versions of kiwiana have claimed a unique space in the expression via materiality of some of the cultural accelerations of post-colonialism. This article concludes that a significant and visible part of national identity construction and expression is being actively and consciously undertaken by the creative industries, and by the purveyors and purchasers of their creations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

From the late 1990s, ideas about creativity and the creative economy have become increasingly important in education and economic development discourse. On the one hand, creative practice is said to enhance individual, social, and economic well-being, on the other, critics have labeled creative workers as a new "precariat." This article explores how happiness might coexist with the risky, precarious employment common in creative enterprises such as fashion. It draws on interviews with fashion design students to examine creativity as a mode of regulation, as a fantasmatic logic, and as an embodied performance. The article shows how fashion design education in New Zealand affectively binds students to creativity, arguing that as "creative girls," they become highly productive performers in the cultural economy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

An essay is presented documenting how Maori terminology and tribal image prototypes are used by contemporary Ngai Tahu artists in New Zealand. It mentions that the author has built up a practice that reflects and honors the artistic and cultural traditions of his Ngai Tahu iwi while incorporating materials and technology from Europe. He reveals that his approach is very personal, wherein the important things for him are those that are important to his family. The relevance of birds in Maori cosmology and the aspects of rock drawing imagery are discussed.

This article introduces the issue of articles on research assessments and rankings. It focuses on the British Research Assessment Exercises (RAEs) and New Zealand's Performance-Based Research Fund (PBRF). It contrasts these with systems that are not tied to funding formulas and emphasise quality enhancement rather than quality assurance. It indicates the negative consequences for individuals, institutions and the professional ethos of universities. It does not deny that there are also benefits gained by institutions that win additional funding through these mechanisms. Research managers benefit by being able to concentrate the efforts of researchers and gain more control over the research enterprise. However, scholarship and creativity are the likely losers in these exercises. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Front cover caption, volume 23 issue 6 Front cover: HAZARDOUS SPORT The front cover shows a cliff-jump into the sea at the Devil's Frying-Pan, a cove near the southernmost tip of Cornwall's Lizard peninsula, a favourite cliff-jumping spot in the area. Back cover caption, volume 23 issue 6 Front cover: HAZARDOUS SPORT The back cover shows a 43 -meter high bungee jump from Kawarau Bridge, near Queenstown, New Zealand. Proclaimed as ‘the world's first commercial bungy jump site’ this image was taken from one of the marketing brochures of an international commercial bungee jump company. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article examines various factors behind the radical growth of New Zealand popular music and its makers as well as the nature of the country's music media and the government's willingness to support to the local talent and music creativity in the country. It discusses a comparison of the musical creativity in the late 1980s with that of 2005 and 2006 and identifies the crucial determinants of the country's musical growth. It also explores the content of hip-hop lyrics as a way of showing biography.

The literature on assessment of EAL (English as an Additional Language) students has largely neglected the needs of young EAL learners in the mainstream setting of the primary school, focusing instead on international contexts where English is not the primary language of communication, settings where EAL is a discrete subject, and older learners. This paper critiques current assessment policies in New Zealand in the light of their relevance for young EAL students (aged 5 to 10 years) in the mainstream. The discussion particularly highlights the inadequacies of cohort-related, reading-focused, standardised assessment for bilingual children, raises issues for teachers, and draws attention to the need for a coherent mainstream EAL curriculum as a basis for future assessment policies. As a result, principles are put forward that support the inclusion of specific EAL knowledge in pre-service teacher education, a more holistic approach to assessment practices that regard young EAL learners as developing bilinguals, and an increased focus on integrating young language learners 'funds of cultural knowledge, inherent creativity, and language acquisition skills. Such a vision will, it is argued, require the placement of young EAL learners in a more central position in the development of future EAL assessment policies and practices. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose - To explore the relationship between managers' cognitive maps and their performance as managers at the same level in the same organisation. Design/methodology/approach - Field study involving 30 branch managers in a financial services organisation operating in New Zealand. A nomadic approach was used to develop their cognitive maps. Features of these maps were then related to business-unit performance. Findings - The managers who were higher performing have maps that were considerably simpler, using fewer concepts and fewer linkages. Research limitations/implications/future research - While limited to one organisation and to one level of management, there is evidence that cognition is related to managers' performance. Future research should explore how cognitive structures differ between managerial levels, and how these are related to appropriate measures of performance. Originality/value - One of few studies that have sought to map managers' cognition and organisation performance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This pilot study was undertaken to investigate whether music therapy is effective in promoting prosocial behaviors in aggressive adolescent boys who have social, emotional, and learning difficulties. Fifteen subjects (aged 11-15 years), enrolled at a special residential school in New Zealand, were randomly assigned to music therapy treatment groups (n = 6, n = 5), and a waitlist control group (n = 4). Examination of demographic data identified differences between groups for diagnosis (p =.044), with Group 1 all having Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), and for age (p =.027), with Group 2 having a mean age 1.38 years older. Measures included parent and teacher versions of the Developmental Behaviour Checklist (DBC-P & DBC-T) (Einfeld & Tonge, 1994; Einfeld, Tonge, & Parmenter, 1998). While no definite treatment effects could be detected, results suggest that a music therapy program promoting autonomy and creativity may help adolescents to interact more appropriately with others in a residential villa setting, but might also lead to a temporary mild increase in disruptive behavior in the classroom. A more highly structured program and smaller group numbers may be advantageous for boys who have ADHD. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

An interview with student school writer Clare Tanton of Taikura Rudolf Steiner School in Hastings, New Zealand is presented. She says that she never thought of havings skills in writing during her younger years, until she went to high school where she started to write stories. She notes that constructive criticisms play a vital role for growth in creative writing. She also plans to continue her knowledge of fiction, writing, and the English language through tertiary study.

The article provides information for teachers on the talent recognition among students through a strength-based teaching and learning approach in New Zealand. Being regarded as a business model and commonly used in social work disciplines, The Gallup Organization conducted research to develop said approach as an educational concept. The approach involves identification of talents, development of students' strengths, seeking of opportunities, and application of strengths for growth and success.

The article features the views of Saatchi & Saatchi New Zealand chief executive officer (CEO) Nicola Bell as she talks about New Zealand creativity as the nation's ultimate competitive edge in 2011. She cites IBM's global survey of 1,500 CEOs in 60 countries and 33 industries that reveals creativity is the most important leadership competency for businesses to work through their organisations' increasing complexity. She urges New Zealanders to harness their capacity for creative leadership.

The article offers various information related to the branch meetings of the Australian and New Zealand Society of Nuclear Medicine (ANZSNM) in Australia and New Zealand. It mentions that members of the New South Wales (NSW) Branch attended the conference at Royal North Shore Hospital which discussed the creativeness of Australians and Australian companies operating in nuclear medicine. It notes that members of New Zealand (NZ) Branch discussed the accreditation of more NZ technologists and departments.

The article presents information about the Australian and New Zealand Communication Association (ANZCA). In August 2005, ANZCA president Colleen Mills represented the Association at a meeting in Canberra between Members of both Houses of the Australian Parliament and representatives from organisations covering the humanities, arts and social sciences. According to Colleen, the meeting gave her the opportunity to promote the talents and expertise of ANZCA members. It is suggested that ANZCA should establish a Register of Expertise so expert comment and advice can readily be sought from ANZCA members. It is informed that the Association's 2006 conference will in held in Adelaide. The theme of the conference will be Empowerment, Creativity and Innovation: Challenging Media and Communication in the 21st Century. Topics to be discussed include old versus new media; ethics of media and communication; communication and civil society; communication and rural communities; cross- cultural communication; activist media and communication; communication and gloabalisation; and online and Internet communication.

Presents a letter to the editor about psychiatrists in New Zealand.