Thursday 2 & Friday 3, 2007

Outline

The leading Women’s Conference in Australia, the Women, Management and Employment Relations Conference is presented by the Labour-Management Studies Foundation and the Macquarie Graduate School of Management at Macquarie University. 2007 sees the nineteenth annual conference which provides an annual audit of the key issues confronting women in the workplace.

The goals of the Conference include broadening attendees understanding of current issues and legislation applying to today’s workplace and to provide an excellent networking opportunity. Each year the conference explores topics including: employment relations, women and leadership, finance, superannuation, workplace flexibility and equal employment opportunity.

Structure

The conference involves relatively brief addresses from panels of leading speakers who are experts in their field, from government, business, academia and unions. Audience participation at the close of each session ensures a stimulating, lively interactive question and answer session. The conference is well known for its outstanding networking opportunities.

Content

The conference seeks to update participants on a range of issues critical to women in contemporary workplaces. Themes in 2007 are:

• Employment Relations,
• Women and Leadership,
• Women, Finance and Superannuation, and
• Workplace Flexibility.

Please visit our website for conference program and speaker information.

Session topics for discussion in 2007:

• Key Issues in Managing People;
• Women in Transition: Moving In, Out and Up;
• Women, Finance and Super;
• Hypotheticals: "Bridging the gap: the hand that helps or hinders";
• Leadership is Women's Business;
• Workplace flexibility: The American Experience, and
• Women in Media.

Registration

Register online on the WMER website 

Fee: $1995.00 (inc. $181.36 GST)

The conference fee includes conference material, presentations, catering and pre dinner drinks and three course conference dinner on 2 August 2007.

A Dr Clare Burton Scholarship is available for candidates engaged in higher education in the study or equity and / or diversity; scholarship applications should arrive no later than Friday 29 July 2007.

Conference Directors

Professor Ed Davis AM

Professor Ed Davis AM is Dean, School of Economic and Financial Studies at Macquarie University. He was formerly Professor of Management and Deputy Director, MGSM. Known widely for his research, publications and presentations on leadership and people management issues, Professor Davis has also held positions with Cambridge, Monash and LaTrobe Universities and the University of NSW. As an active consultant and practitioner, Professor Davis has worked with a range of government and commercial organisations in the development of effective performance management and leadership strategies and practices.

Pam Morpeth

Manager of the Labour-Management Studies Foundation since 1990 and over that time has forged key links with business, governments, unions and sponsors. She has been integral in the organisation and development of the Women, Management and Employment Relations Conference into a premier, annual conference that attracts keynote speakers from leading positions in Government, business and the union movement.

Professor Valerie Pratt AM

Professor Pratt AM, Professorial Fellow at MGSM, was the founding Director of the Commonwealth Government's Affirmative Action Agency established in 1986. She serves on a number of Boards, is a Fellow of the Senate of Sydney University and consults on structural and cultural change. Together with Professor Davis, she co-edits the series "Making the Link: Affirmative Action and Industrial Relations".

Dates:

2 – 3 August 2007, non-residential.

Venue

Four Seasons Hotel
199 George Street
Sydney, NSW
Australia

Enquiries

The Conference Website should answer most questions. Otherwise please contact:

Pam Morpeth
Conference Director
Phone: +61 2 9850 8985
Fax: +61 2 9850 6155
Email: pam.morpeth@efs.mq.edu.au