Joint event with the Australian Human Resource Institute's Young Professionals network
November 4, 2009, Bradley Forum, City West
Seminar: 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?
- Retaining a skilled workforce
- The issues of the management of change as organisations adopt new technologies, and more commonly, new ways of doing things.
Presenters
- Peter Ward, SA Water's approach to introducing climate -friendly workplace change (ppt, 917kb)
- Erma Ranieri, Change Management & Workforce Planning at PIRSA, (ppt, 593kb)
- Gerrit De Vries, Design Architect, MBA student, University of Adelaide, Adopting environmentally friendly workplace practices – starting a chain reaction, (ppt, 971kb)
- Leanne Fraser, Drake Supermarkets Implementation of the Plastic Bag Legislation, (ppt, 1.3mb)
- Gerry Treuren, UniSA, HR's role in managing climate change in the workplace (ppt, 695kb) Version published in Advertiser, November 16, 2009. Recording of radio interview, November 5.
Climate change workplace change resources
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