Department of Marketing and Management

Symposium: 24 November 2011

Presented by the Department of Marketing and Management and the Centre for Workforce Futures at Macquarie University in collaboration with the Diversity Group (University of Sydney) and Hudson

This symposium takes advantage of the visit to Macquarie University of Professor Mustafa Özbilgin, a leading international expert on Diversity. It seeks to provide a forum in which scholars working in the field and leading industry representatives can reflect on progress, issues, and gaps in relation to Equity, Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace, focusing specifically on gender and cultural diversity. Professor Mustafa Özbilgin will commence with keynote addresses on the day of the symposium.

The symposium will be located at Macquarie University, where scholars from Macquarie, Sydney and NSW universities will provide brief overviews of their research on issues relating to women, migrants and cultural diversity and engage in panel discussions of the issues raised by their work. View speakers' profiles

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Program

Date: 24 November 2011
Venue: Macquarie Graduate School of Management 99 Talavera Road, North Ryde

9.00 – 9.30	Morning Tea
9.30 – 9.45	Launch Professor Gail Whiteford, PVC Social Inclusion, Macquarie University
9.45 – 10.00	Introduction Prof Lucy Taksa and Dr Dimitria Groutsis, University of Sydney
10.00 – 11.00	Session One Keynote Address Professor Mustafa Özbilgin, Global Diversity Management – the scholarship
11.00 - 12.00	Panel 1 Cultural diversity: skilled migrants, entrepreneurs and identity issues Speakers Dr Meena Chavan, Diversity Good For Entrepreneurship: International entrepreneurs in Australia Dr Fei Guo, The demographic dimension of skilled migration to Australia with a focus on migrants from Asia Prof Lucy Taksa and Dr Dimitria Groutsis, Considering multiple and intersecting identities in the workplace: lessons for diversity management? A/Prof Ellie Vasta, Immigrant Work Strategies and the cost of de-skilling Facilitator Professor Jock Collins, Professor of Management and Core Member, Cosmopolitan Civil Societies Research Centre, UTS
12.00 - 1.00	Open discussion
1.00 - 2.00	Lunch
2.00 - 3.00	Panel 2 Women, careers and management: identifying skills, voice and barriers Speakers A/Prof Anne Junor, Gaining Recognition for the Skills of Experience: Low-Paid Care Work Prof Anne Ross-Smith, Watch out here comes feelings': women executives and emotion work Dr Louise Thornthwaite, Work-family balance and employee's working time preferences Dr Diane van den Broek, Dr Dimitria Groutsis, & Prof Lucy Taksa, The lost employee voice: making skilled migrant women’s participation visible Facilitator Associate Professor Peter McGraw, Macquarie
3.00 – 4.00	Open discussion

Symposium: 24 November 2011

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