Managing well or just managing? DCA invites you to a leadership briefing on managers and their diversity practice
Managers play a critical role in bringing diversity to life. Their performance could be the make or break of any diversity strategy. DCA identifies that the diversity 'tipping point' in future is identifying the skills that Australian managers need to move diversity practice to the next stage.
Jane O'Leary, DCA's Research Director has conducted groundbreaking PhD research investigating the critical role managers play in 'doing' diversity - that is, turning organisational policy into practice.
Proudly hosted by Ernst & Young, DCA is delighted to invite you to attend a Diversity Leadership Briefing profiling this leading research, exclusively for DCA members and invited guests. At the briefing to be held in both Melbourne and Sydney, this leading practice Australian research will provide DCA member businesses with insight into:
- Competency levels in managing diversity, from most basic through to most sophisticated
- How these competency levels provide a framework for assisting diversity practitioners, managers and employees to understand their own and their colleagues' competence and how these competencies can be further developed
- Implications for diversity practice, including organisational, practitioner and managerial practice.
When and where:
Melbourne:
9.00am-11.30am
Thursday 5 February 2009
Ernst & Young Building
Level 24, 8 Exhibition Street
Melbourne |
Sydney:
9.00am-11.30am
Thursday 12 February 2009
Ernst & Young Centre
Level 32, 680 George Street
Sydney
|
Cost: Free of charge and
exclusive for DCA members To register: click
here for a registration form and send via email to
melbourne@dca.org.au or via fax to (03) 8611 7699.
Spaces are strictly limited for this event, so book now! About Jane O'Leary
Jane O'Leary has been with DCA since 2001, working closely with our members to assist them foster organisational cultures which are inclusive of all personal differences. In 2005, she was awarded an Australian Government scholarship to conduct PhD research examining the diversity capability of Australian managers.
Prior to joining DCA, Jane worked in the Equal Opportunity for Women in the Workplace Agency (EOWA) and the Queensland University of Technology, consulting to employers and staff on issues relating to diversity and inclusion and adult learning and development.
In 1996, Jane was awarded a Masters of Education, studying in the area of women in leadership. She has published papers on managing diversity, women and careers, women and leadership, qualitative research techniques, and learning and development. Her particular areas of specialisation include managerial diversity capability, diversity strategy development, implementation and evaluation, women in the workplace, and learning and development.
The release of this research will mark Jane as one of Australia's pre-eminent business diversity researchers and her contribution to the business diversity agenda, in partnership with DCA, is invaluable in all of the current contexts.
Please note, we will consider holding a teleconference event for those members not able to attend the briefings in Sydney and Melbourne. Please advise us on melbourne@dca.org.au if you are interested.
