HR Practice Seminars

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Upcoming presentations

Date/ Venue	Speaker	Topic
Wednesday, 5.45-8pm, Bradley Forum, City West, UniSA	Erma Ranieri (PIRSA); Cathy Brimage (Hills Industries); Leanne Fraser (Drake Supermarkets), Gerrit De Vries (Design Engineer), Peter Ward (SA Water), Gerrit Treuren (UniSA)	The HR challenges of climate change In the next few years, Australian organisations will face legislative, commercial and consumer pressure to adopt environmentally friendly workplace practices. Nationally, we are likely to see legislation establishing an ETS system; in SA, our ongoing water worries will continue. These issues will quickly translate into HR challenges. These challenges can be classified into several types: Do we have the skills and knowledge to develop the new technologies that will be necessary? Do we have the engineering, trades and logistical skills in sufficient numbers to implement existing technologies in existing workplaces? The growth of new business and industries based on these changes. Do we have the skills and labour for this? The issues of the management of change as organisations adopt new technologies, and more commonly, new ways of doing things. Joint event with the Australian Human Resource Institute's Young Professionals network. Book your place here
Past Seminars
Friday, 12.30pm, September 18, Hawke 6-03	Stephen Jones, National Secretary, Community and Public Sector Union	Changes in people management in the Australian Commonwealth public sector.
Friday, 12.30pm, September 4, Hawke 6-03	Rob Kerruish/ Amber Dohnal, HR, UniSA Natalie De Boo, SA Water	Setting up and managing a graduate program: The experiences of two large and established graduate programs. Although many employers are laying off staff during the recession, a significant number of employers continue to recruit their next generation of university-qualified employees through graduate programs. Hear about how two large employers have set up and managed their large scale graduate programs.
Wednesday, 12.30pm, June 17, RR5-09	Professor Howard Gospel, King's College, University of London	The Re-bundling of Corporate Functions: The Evolution of Shared Services and Outsourcing in Human Resource Management Presented as part of the School of Management Seminar
Thursday, 5.45pm for a 6.00pm start, June 18, 2009, Allan Scott Auditorium, Hawke Building,	Professor Linda Duxbury, Sprott School of Business, Carleton University, Canada	Short term pain for long term gain: managing work life balance in a recession In a recession, private and public sector employers may put work life issues on the back burner and workers may believe change is not an option. Leading Canadian work life balance expert, Linda Duxbury, is here to share her expertise on how an investment in balance can yield positive productivity and health results. Are you an employee, an employer, or in the HR field? Are you solution-oriented? However you define yourself, you cannot afford to ignore the health and other costs of work life conflict. You and your organisation will benefit from an international perspective on how to fix it. Bookings: www.hawkecentre.unisa.edu.au Presented by the Bob Hawke Prime Ministerial Centre in partnership with SafeWork SA - WorkLife Balance Strategy, Department of Premier and Cabinet
Friday, 12.30-2pm, May 22, Hawke 6 - 03	Diane Hart, Manager: Diversity, Australia Post	From big things little things grow: the journey from harassment to Diversity in an organisation which employs the largest collection of bikies in (Post) colours Changing the Culture in the part of the organisation that in SA is 95% male. What has worked and what hasn't. Our own internal contradictions.
Wednesday, 2-4pm, May 13, Hawke 6-03	Damien Smith (GradCertHRM 2008), HSE Advisor, Ertech	HR and OHS employment opportunities in Australian mining. Although temporarily stalled, the Australian mining is in the middle of an unprecedented long-term expansion. This expansion will continue to demand a vast supply of skilled and unskilled labour. HRM and OHS employment will continue to grow. Damien is well placed to give an overview of where job growth is happening and how to position yourself for this growth.
Friday, 12.30-2pm, April 3, Hawke 6 - 03	Henrick Wallgren (HRM 2007), Business Advisor, at BusinessSA	BusinessSA's view of the FairWork Act Henrick will outline BusinessSA's assessment of the legislation recently passed through Federal Parliament.
Friday, 12.30-2pm, March 27, Hawke 6 - 03	Angas Story, Manager Industrial Services, SAUnions	SAUnions's view of the Fair Work Bill Angas will outline SAUnions's assessment of the legislation currently before the Senate and the report of the Senate Committee Inquiry (due Feb 28). Their submission is here.
Friday, 12.30-2pm, March 13, Hawke 6 - 03	Lauren Browne (HR Manager) and Telma Martignago (HRM 2006), HR Co-ordinator, United Water	The downstream consequences of the Global Financial Crisis on recruitment and retention. Lauren Browne and Telma Martignago will talk about the different issues of managing recruitment before and after the Global Financial Crisis experienced by their business.