Managing Workforce Change in Hard Times

2010 dates TBC
Canberra

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This executive workshop identifies crucial workforce management issues during times of budgetary constraint and outlines tools and strategies for senior executives. 

Workshop objectives 

Participants will:

  1. Explore the changing economic environment, associated pressures on government budgets and the implications for government departments and agencies.
  2. Understand the strategic options for public sector organisations, with a particular focus on workplace planning and management.
  3. Examine the costs and benefits linked to different strategies.
  4. Look at obstacles commonly encountered in the implementation of strategies and measures which might be used to assist achievement of strategic goals.
  5. Explore and analyse case studies to deepen understanding of what strategies might work best in different contexts.
  6. Deepen their understanding of connections between functional areas, the need to monitor impact of changes on other areas and take steps to achieve policy coherence.

Who should attend?

This executive workshop is suitable for all senior managers working in a public sector organisation. It will be especially valuable to senior executives who manage departments, divisions or units with a large workforce, or a workforce with a mix of employees on a range of contractual terms.
The workshop is designed to be of value to generalist managers and no prior learning in human resource management is required. 

Course Leader - Emeritus Professor Ed Davis, AM

Professor Ed Davis is a Fellow of the Labour-Management Studies Foundation and an Emeritus Professor at Macquarie University.He is also the Director of Edward M. Davis and Associates. He is an accredited mediator and engages in leadership coaching.

Professor Davis was a Professor at the Macquarie Graduate School of Management for 14 years,including six years as Deputy Director.He was Dean of the Faculty of Economic and Financial Studies at Macquarie from 2002 to 2008. He holds a Master of Arts from Cambridge, a Master of Economics from Monash and a PhD from La Trobe University.

Much of Professor Davis’ research has focussed on the management of workplace performance and he has co-edited several books with Professor Russell Lansbury in this area. He has acted as a consultant to employers, unions and government and he has also undertaken assignments for the International Labour Organisation. In 2008 he was appointed by the NSW Department of Education and Training as a Chair of its Higher Education Accreditation Assessment panels.

In 2000 Professor Davis was National President of the Industrial Relations Society of Australia and was awarded Life Membership in 2002. In 2004 Professor Davis won the Lifetime Achievement in HR Award at the National Human Resources Awards. In 2005 he was made a Fellow of the Australian Human Resources Institute. He was appointed a Member in the General Division of the Order of Australia in 2006 for “service to education and to the community in the areas of equity in employment, industrial relations and human resource management”.