Centre for Sustainable Organisations and Work

// Vietnam Minister strengthens RMIT links
RMIT University's strong links with Vietnam were underlined by a visit by Vice-Foreign Minister, Dr Nguyen Thanh Son.

18/02/2010 Research Seminar: It's not Just Another Crisis: Globalisation and the International Civil Aviation Industry
The presentation will demonstrate that the current crisis is unlike others because of the rise of cheap airlines and the new international regulatory environment (open skies).

27/05/2010 Industry Forum Employment, Policy and Planning Issues in Aged Care
The Business College Research Centre for Governance, Work and Technologies, headed by Professor Peter Fairbrother, wish to invite you to an industry forum on the Topic of Employment, Policy and Planning Issues in Aged Care.

03/06/2010 Forum: Research and Action towards Pay Equity - New Approaches to an Old Issue
The Women and Work Research Cluster, Centre for Governance, Work and Technologies invites you to a forum on new directions in research and action on pay equity.

04/06/2010 Ethical Issues in Research Seminar
This seminar will provide an overview of some important ethical issues to be considered in business research and will outline the process for gaining ethics approval.

09/06/2010 Seminar: Instrumental stakeholder theory and Chinese businesses
Do closer relationships between businesses and stakeholders always lead to greater competitive advantage?

23/07/2010 Seminar: Freight Futures - The Victorian Freight Network Strategy
Freight Futures is the Victorian Government's long-term strategy to shape an efficient and sustainable freight network for Victoria.

03/08/2010 Seminar: Snapshots of Recent Developments in Indonesia
Over the course of the past decade, Indonesia has undergone significant political, economic and social change.

31/08/2010 Seminar: Slumdogs and Millionaires: Paradoxes in Emerging Management Practices in India
It has been suggested that Indian companies are at a point similar to where Japanese companies were in the 1970’s and their potential global impact would be significant.

13/09/2010 Seminar: Looking at Values - Some Recent Research
Personal values are developed during childhood and are thought to be relatively stable in adults. They are crucial to the way people approach the world, whether as employees, consumers or members of society.

13/09/2010 Seminar: Doing Research In and On One's Own Organisation
The topic of ‘Doing Research In and On One’s Own Organisation’, or ‘Insider Action Research’ is an ever-growing subject of exploration for both practitioner students and supervising faculty alike.

01/10/2010 Seminar: Sinophobia, Chinese Foreign Direct Investment & Host Communities
This seminar reviews the literature on racism as corporate strategy, discusses the Chinalco-BHP struggle, and provides a case study of how one community reacted when offered the chance to host a Chinese multinational enterprise.

21/10/2010 Seminar: Responsible Capitalism
There is a conceptual crisis in capitalism for businesses and business schools. We need nothing less than a conceptual revolution around our very basic ideas of capitalism and business.

22/10/2010 Seminar: Modeling Vietnam SME Policy for Economic, Business and Crisis Management: A New Approach
This seminar is presented by the Asian Management Research Cluster in the Centre for Work, Governance and Technology at RMIT.

27/10/2010 Seminar: Women on the Line Revisited. Changes and Continuities in Womens Work
The Women + Work Research Cluster, Centre for Governance, Work and Technologies, RMIT University, invite you to a public seminar by Professor Miriam Glucksmann.

29/10/2010 Seminar: High Performance Work Systems, Psychological Empowerment and Social Identification
This seminar will report on a survey in a regional hospital in Australia of doctors, nurses and allied health professionals. It will explore the relationship between social identification, HPWS and psychological empowerment on the quality of patient care.

04/11/2010 Seminar: Private Equity & Hedge Funds: Their Effect on Labour
This seminar will outline how private equity and activist hedge funds impact on labour and employment. It will review the extant evidence and report the findings of a set of case studies in several European countries.

08/11/2010 International symposium: Multinational firms from and in the Asia-Pacific, global standards and host country development
This one-day symposium will bring together world-leading scholars and policy makers to present their latest research findings and share experience on the role of multinational firms in shaping global standards and host country development. There will be particular reference to multinational firms from, and operating in, developing countries in the Asia-Pacific.

04/03/2011 Smart Workers Go Mobile
The Centre for Sustainable Organisations and Work (former The Centre for Governance, Work and Technologies) invites you to a seminar: Smart Workers Go Mobile, presented by Dr John L. Hopkins from Victoria University.

18/03/2011 Factors Influencing Born Global Internationalisation: A Study of Malaysian Firms
School of Management and the Centre for Sustainable Organisations and Work invite you to a seminar presented by Dr Manjit S. Sandhu from Monash University Malaysian Campus.

21/03/2011 Round-Table seminar on Port-centric Logistics Research: issues and opportunities
The Global Logistics Cluster of the Centre for Sustainable Organisations and Work invites you to the first of a series of round-table research seminars aimed at identifying themes and opportunities for high impact, industry-relevant research in the area of Transport and Logistics.

04/05/2011 The International Relations of Capital and Labour
This seminar singles out four of the various characteristics of globalisation that have proven especially problematic for workforces; and examines how labour organisations have responded to each of these in ways that indicate a capacity for adaptation and even renewal, suggesting that rumours of labour’s death are greatly exaggerated.

03/06/2011 Choice, Complexity, and Ignorance in Public Services
The seminar will consider some of the special characteristics, contexts and challenges of public service provision in the 21st century. This will include an outline of the pressures to use the private sector as well as the charitable and voluntary sector to provide public services traditionally delivered in-house by government and its agencies.

29/06/2011 Management, Innovation and Productivity in Australian firms
The School of Management and the Centre for Sustainable Organisations and Work invite you to the following seminar presentation.

13/07/2011 Invitation to Bushfire Researchers
You are invited to the next get-together of the network of bushfire/disaster social science researchers.

14/07/2011 Lunchtime Professional Development Session - Multiple Choice Questions
The Academic Development Group (ADG) is running a professional development program for College of Business staff over the course of the year.

18/07/2011 Lunchtime Professional Development Session - Multiple Choice Questions
The Academic Development Group (ADG) is running a professional development program for College of Business staff over the course of the year.

27/07/2011 Seminar: How to finish a PhD and know when it is good enough
You are kindly invited to the first session delivered by Professor Brian Corbitt on 27 July 2011.

28/07/2011 The Grammar of Design Thinking: The Histories versus The Promises of Socio-Material Practice Remaking
Design plays a mysterious role in society. Everything we touch, read and use was designed by someone somewhere. Yet design features in too few accounts of our society.

29/09/2011 Presentation and book launch: Chinese Investment in Australia
Dr Xueli (Charlie) Huang, RMIT University, and Dr Ian Austin, Edith Cowan University, are co-authors of “Chinese Investment in Australia”, published by Palgrave Macmillan.

11/10/2011 In the Eye of the Storm: The Québec Labour Movement in a Renewal and Organisational Deadlock
The Centre for Sustainable Organisations and Work, and the School of Management take pleasure in inviting you to the following seminar:

09/11/2011 Forum: Design in Management
Join this important seminar on how the School of Management and College of Business can take a 'design' paradigm forward. Three leading design thinkers will share their perspectives on design and the applicability of design methodology and thinking for management and business. The session will conclude with a summary on potential 'design and business ' research projects.

17/11/2011 APEC Conference - Is Australia managing?
International and Australian experts and business leaders will review the key drivers and trends affecting Australia's trade and competitiveness. The Hon. Dr Craig Emerson, Federal Minister for Trade, will deliver the 2011 Australian APEC Lecture to conclude the conference.

20/03/2012 Telstra Learning Academy
The School of Management has kindly invited John Clifford, former Director of the Telstra Learning Academy to talk about the Academy established in 2005. One of the most successful initiatives associated with Telstra's transformation journey under the leadership of the former CEO, Sol Trujillo, this Academy managed a $200 million program over five years.

25/05/2012 Short Film Screening - Lines of Flight
The screening includes an introduction from the film's director, Martin Wood, a follow up Q&A session and a Hub Melbourne Wine-down.