Faculty of Business and Law Victoria University Melbourne
School of Management and Information Systems
 
We are currently looking for a Lecturer in Management (Level B) 
(HRM and/or Industrial Relations is one of our key areas)
 
Applications close 4pm Sunday 12 February 2012.


How to Apply:
For further information and a Position Description visit our website vu.edu.au/jobs.
Applications must address the Selection Criteria contained in the Position Description.
Victoria University is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

“Using the Power of Working Relationships to Achieve Organisational Resilience and Sustainability: A Multi-Stakeholder Approach”

TIME: 2.00pm - 4.30pm
DATE: Friday 24 February, 2012
VENUE: ICT Theatre 1, Ground Floor, ICT Building, 111 Barry Street, Carlton
RSVP: To reserve your place at this free event please email:
isaac-workshop@unimelb.edu.au by 19 February, 2012. Please include Isaac Symposium in the subject line.
The symposium will concludewith a late afternoon reception.

Victoria University Invites you o the launch of the Report: Human Resource Management Practices in Multinational Enterprises: Survey Evidence from Australia
 
Authors: Anthony McDonnell, Helen Russell, Gitika Sablok, John Burgess, Pauline Stanton, Timothy Bartram, Brendan Boyle and Karen Manning
 
This report, based on a survey carried out on MNEs in Australia in 2010 by researchers from the University of Newcastle, University of South Australia, La Trobe University and Victoria University, is part of an international project that includes Argentina, Canada, Denmark, Ireland, Mexico, Norway, Spain and the UK. The survey was supported by AHRI.  Key features of the report include:
•         A Profile of Multinational Enterprises in Australia
•         Key features of their HR Function and Control
•         A snapshot of MNE’s Pay and Performance Management policies
•         A profile of MNE’s Training, Development and Talent Management practices
•         MNE’s approach to Global Staffing and Organisational Learning
•         The Employee Involvement, Communication, Representation and Consultation Practices of Multinational Enterprises
 
Report launched by Peter Wilson AM National President of the Australian Human Resources Institute and Professor Peter Dowling Professor of International HRM at La Trobe University. Chaired by Professor Pauline Stanton Victoria University.
 
When:         Wednesday 24 August 2011
Time:          4.30pm – 6.30pm  
Where:       Victoria University
                    Level 9, Rm 9.15
                    300 Flinders street, Melbourne
 
RSVP:        By Friday 19 August to Smilka.Jakobi@vu.edu.au or 99191295
 

Victoria University and the ACTU are  pleased to be hosting a forum on Monday 18 July on “Building Alliances By & With Women Workers'.
 
The forum will discuss  the diversity of women’s experiences and  the innovative ways women workers and unionists are  building the future of feminist politics within local and global union movements. Transnational experiences will focus on union feminists mobilizing at multiple sites, issues of wages and equity, child care campaigns, work-life balance, and queer organizing.

Speakers at the forum include:

Professor Suzanne Franzway – Director, Research Centre for Women's Studies, University of South  Australia
Professor Mary Margaret Fonow –  Director, School of Social Transformation, Arizona State University
 
 Please see attached flyer with further information.
 
DATE:                   Monday, 18 July 2011
TIME:                    5pm- 6.30pm
VENUE:                 Room 9.02, Level 9
                             300 Flinders St, Melbourne
                             Victoria University, School of Management & Information Systems
RSVP:                   To register to attend, please click smilka.jakobi@vu.edu.au

9 a.m., 4 April 2011

Call for Expressions of Interest
PhD students (and their supervisors if available) are invited to participate in the 2011 Annual Joe Isaac Workshop for Research Students   This Workshop provides an opportunity for students researching topics in the areas of employment relations, human resources management, industrial relations, and related fields to discuss their work with like-minded students and experienced researchers from the Universities of Cambridge, Melbourne and Monash and elsewhere.

Submitting an expression of interest
To participate in the morning workshop please send an expression of interest to, as soon as possible and no later than 10 March 2011 to: isaac-workshop@unimelb.edu.au    

Expressions of interest should be no more than 1 page of A4, 12point, 1.5 line space and should included a proposed thesis title, a 100-150 word draft thesis abstract, the names and email addresses of the PhD student and supervisor(s).

Venue
This workshop will be held at Monash University, 900 Dandenong Rd., Caulfield, Melbourne, Victoria 3145.  Monash University has several parking options around the campus. The University is located next to Caulfield Train Station, and is served by frequent trains, busses and trams. For maps, more transport and parking information, please see: www.monash.edu.au/campuses/caulfield.html

Afternoon session
PhD students and their supervisors are warmly invited to stay for the whole day. There will also be a lunch-time seminar, and an afternoon symposium. The latter will address the topic:  'How shall we protect the wages of the weak?' The keynote speaker then will be:  Professor William Brown, Cambridge University. Willy Brown was previously Director of the world-renowned Industrial Relations Research Unit at Warwick University. His research is internationally influential in such fields as: collective bargaining, pay determination, incomes policy, payment systems, arbitration, minimum wages, and the impact of legislative change. 

Other speakers at the afternoon symposium will include:
 
Anna Lee Cribb, Commissioner, Fair Work Australia; Vice President, Industrial Relations Society; formerly a Human Resources Manager with ICI Australia and Orica Pty Ltd. 

Bill Kelty, Director, Linfox Pty Ltd; Director, Bank of Queensland; formerly Secretary, Australian Council of Trade Unions and Director, Reserve Bank of Australia.
Justice Giudice, President, Fair Work Australia.

Emeritus Professor Joe Isaac, University of Melbourne and Monash University.

For more information please visit www.buseco.monash.edu.au/events/isaac/index.html  or www.chrm.unimelb.edu.au

Costs
These are free events sponsored jointly by Monash University (Faculty of Business and Economics) and the University of Melbourne (Centre for Human Resource Management) in honour of Emeritus Professor Joe Isaac AO. They are held in alternate years at Monash University and the University of Melbourne.

We will provide lunch and a late afternoon reception. PhD students and their supervisors or their own universities would be responsible for any other costs that they might incur e.g. travel/subsistence etc.