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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
the Advertiser, November 16,
2009. Recording of
radio interview, November 5.
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