Employees now may choose whether to bargain personally with employers or through unions. National employment has gone up by 220,000 since then. This is a figure larger than the number of unemployed when it was enacted, though other factors probably also contributed. It may be a contributing factor to the assessment of international business people that New Zealand is the least corrupt of 54 countries on a scale on which the U.S. is ranked 15th.
Results are public and seem to be stimulating improvements.
A shift is being made to accrual accounting, which takes a broader look at the government's financial condition. Government ministers set targets for their departments, with the emphasis on measurable outputs. Chief executives have wide latitude within their budgets to accomplish these, including fee-setting. Policymaking is directly under the responsible cabinet minister. This is separated from service delivery to avoid confusion.