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The Workplace of the Future - Half-day Symposium
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Please note that this event
will be held on Friday the 10th of December, 8:30am - 1pm. This date is
one week later than the earliest advertisements for this event
indicated.
Introduction
The
workplace has been going through massive change over a very short
period of time.
It is happening in all developed economies, but in every case has
specific
impacts in each country. Australia has been swamped by cheap
manufactured
imports more than most because of the willingness of Federal
Governments
to more freely open our economy to the free global market than most
other
similar economies.
The impact has been both external - economic and social e.g. family
requirements, government leglislation and policy - and internal - new
computerised technology, new management and work systems, new skills,
casualisation and outsourcing etc. The Future of the Workplace can be a
positive or a negative depending on decisions made by Governments,
employers, unions, employees, and the
broader community. Will there be an elite work rich, skill rich people
who
will flourish in the new environment, or will we see growing gaps and
inequality with large sectors of people missing out? This symposium
will explore the options available, examine the international
experience especially that
of Western Europe, through the presentation of Roy Green, will look at
recent Australian experience in skill development, change at the work
face, new
management systems, with a view to enabling participants to make better
choices
about what should be done.
Speakers
and sessions include:
Innovation,
Workplaces and Public Policy
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Professor Roy Green
Professor Roy Green is Dean of the Faculty of
Commerce at the National University of Ireland, Galway, and on the
management committee of the Faculty's Centre for Innovation &
Structural Change. He has worked in universities and government in the
UK, Australia and Ireland, and has published widely in the areas of
innovation, economic policy and workplace analysis. He has served on
public bodies and undertaken projects with industry and organisations
such as the OECD, European Commission and Enterprise Ireland.
Currently, Roy chairs the private sector panel of the Irish
Government's 'Forum on the Workplace of the Future', and he is a member
of Enterprise Ireland's National Research Funding Support Board, the
Irish Research Council for the Humanities & Social Sciences and the
advisory board of the Economic & Social Research Institute.
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Professor Green's presentation (Powerpoint 161 Kb)
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The
Future of the Workplace: A Management Perspective
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Professor Danny Samson
During his academic career
Professor Samson has consulted to senior executives in most
manufacturing industries and numerous service sector organisations. He
regularly provides industry and executive seminars and has participated
in a number of committees and industry bodies including appointment as
a member of the Australian Manufacturing Council and the Commonwealth
Government Industry Task
Force on Leadership and Management. He serves as a Board Member of the
Transport Accident Commission. Danny has conducted many short courses
in engineering and manufacturing management, executive seminars in
decision analysis, total quality, logistics and statistical analysis.
His particular research interest is in the competitiveness of
organisations, and the
effective use of systems to achieve this competitiveness. Danny has
published
in a wide variety of journals which reflect the breadth of his research
interests and has also published a number of books in recent years.
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Professor Samson's presentation (Powerpoint 194 Kb)
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Labour Hire: Public Policy Options for Combining
Flexibility and Security
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Dr Richard Curtain
Richard
Curtain has specialised in research-based public policy analysis as an
independent consultant since October 1993. His particular areas
of expertise include: international comparisons of public policy,
program evaluation and labour market analysis.
Recent clients include AusAID, the United Nations and Adult
Multicultural Education Services Victoria.
With Professor Meredith Edwards, he has initiated the Australian Public
Policy Research Network - www.apprn.org.
Dr Curtain is a Professional Associate of the National Institute for
Governance, University of Canberra.
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Dr Curtain's presentation (PDF 29.7 Kb)
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Skill
Formation: The Promise and the Reality
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Kim Windsor
Since
the early nineties, Kim
Windsor has been developing competencies and training packages for the
National Food Industry Training Council, and implementing training
programs at the industry and company levels.
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Session
Chairs include:
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Ilona Charles
Ilona is the Head of
Employee Relations at the National
Australia Bank. She has accountability for Employee Relations strategy,
processes and policy nationally and is responsible for the development
of
global frameworks used throughout the Group. Ilona has worked at the
National
for almost 10 years - most recently in senior human resources roles.
Her areas
of expertise include industrial relations, occupational health and
safety,
workers compensation, strategic change management and employment law.
Ilona is a graduate of LaTrobe University
and also holds an MBA.
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Professor Mark Considine
Mark
Considine is a graduate of the University of Melbourne and his areas of
expertise include Australian politics, comparative social policy,
public sector reform, governance and public administration, and
organisational sociology. He is the Director of the Department's Centre
for Public Policy. In 2000 he won the American Society for Public
Administration's Marshall E. Dimmock Award for the best lead article
published in Public Administration Review, with his co-author, Jenny M
Lewis. In 2001 he won the American Educational research Association's
Book of the Year for The Enterprise University, written with Simon
Marginson.
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Professor Brian Howe
Prof. Brian Howe is a Professorial Associate in the Centre. He was
Deputy Prime Minister of Australia (1991-95), a member of the Federal
Cabinet (1984-96) and held a range of Ministerial portfolios in the
fields of Defence, Social Security, Health, Housing and Community
Services. His administration of these portfolios was distinguished by a
number of major policy initiatives, particularly in relation to
employment and welfare. He teaches in the Centre's post-graduate
program, and is conducting research into sustainable social policy,
which examines the conflicting priorities between social and economic
policy. His other main research interest is the relationship between
religion, ethics and public policy. He is writing a book on the future
of work. He is a Research Fellow in the Woodrow Wilson School,
Princeton, and in 1998 was Frederick H. Schultz Class of 1951 Professor
there.
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Max Ogden
Max
Ogden is the Manager of the Foundation
for Sustainable Economic Development. Prior to this, he has worked as
an Industrial Officer with the Australian Council of Trade Unions with
a particular responsibility for workplace change and co-ordinating the
work of the food processing unions, as well as for the Australian
Manufacturing
Workers' Union.
He has worked as an advisor to the AFL-CIO (the United States
equivalent of the ACTU), and has written a small book, Best
Practice Unionism, as part of a Fabian Society series in
Washington. He has contributed to a book edited by Dr. Paul Adler,
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