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The Workplace Research Centre holds conferences each year to diffuse it's recent major research findings. Together with presentations from high profile guest speakers and examples from practitioners, this amalgamation of knowledge and experience creates insightful, current, and thought-provoking events. These conferences give you the most up to date information available for you to use in your own workplace.
The WRC holds major conferences each year. 2009 conferences included:
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Climate Change at Work
3rd April 2009 Hilton, Sydney
Explores how more sustainable approaches to energy and resource efficiency are changing jobs, human resource management, workplace relations and skill formation. This conference presents the big picture/policy issues of climate change in the workplace, along with case studies and practical workshops. While companies are often more concerned about the technological side of climate change this conference focuses on the practical information you need to achieve a better climate in a green workplace!
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Australian Workplace Conference (formally WRC Annual Conference)
7th August 2009 Hilton, Sydney
This conference discusses current issues affecting the working lives of Australian people.The theme of the conference is determined by topical issues and we draw on experts from various fields such as leading commentators and policy makers from industry, government agencies, academia and the labour movement to help paint both the macro and micro pictures of working life in Australia.
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Labour Law Conference
15th May 2009 Hilton, Sydney
The Labour Law conference, held in conjunction with the Sydney Law School, is another topical conference discussing the latest legislation or changes confronting Labour Law in Australia today. This well renowned conference has been running for 16 years and attracts some of Australia’s leading labour law and IR researchers and practitioners
In previous years this has included Bob Hawke, former Prime Minister, Ron McCallum, University of Sydney among many others.
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Happiness + Wellbeing at Work
25th September 2009 Harbours Edge, Sydney
Are your employees happy at work? Are you happy at work? Is your workplace implementing wellness programs? What makes a happy workplace? This conference is facilitated by some of Australia’s leading experts on psychology, leadership and workplace relations. The aim of the conference is to provide strategies that will allow the mindful leader to create solutions for generating increased productivity through the dominant value of employee wellbeing.
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AWGF Conference
February 2009 Sydney
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