The 18th Women, Management and Employee Relations Conference, 2006

• Key-Note Address

Ann Sherry, AO, Group Executive Officer, Westpac New Zealand & Group Executive, Westpac New Zealand and the Pacific, Westpac Banking Corporation PAPER (PDF, 42KB)

• Managing Distress at Work

Dr Nicole Highet, Deputy CEO, beyondblue SLIDES (PDF, 1,335KB)

Beyond Blue Workplace Brochure

 

• Leadership is Women's Business

Melanie O’Connor, Managing Director, The Academy Network PAPER (PDF, 75KB)

• Employment Relations: What's new?

Dr Marian Baird , Senior Lecturer, Work & Organisational Studies, The University of Sydney PAPER (PDF, 113KB)

• Discrimination: Bridging the Gap

Juliet Bourke, Partner, Aequus Partners SLIDES (PDF, 208KB)

Essays on Leadership by Oxford University future Leaders

The University of Oxford in England launched the Oxford Leadership prize in 2005. It attracted an impressive number of entries. The impetus for the Award came from leaders attending the Oxford Strategic Leadership Programme at Templeton College of Oxford University, who were interested to know what new ideas were emerging amongst a cadre of younger future leaders.  Although the speeches were from the 2005 entries, the speeches are being presented here as they are remarkable in their scope of ideas and wisdom. Miss Rowenna Davis's speech, in particular, is very inspiring in its case study analysis of leadership.

The Winner

Rowenna Davis was judged the winner for her audio presentation “Invisible Leaders”. Rowenna is an undergraduate at Balliol reading PPE.

You can listen to it here.

Carolyn Haggis at Nuffield was a runner up in this Award for submitting an entry entitled:

“New Leaders, New Models: Advancing the Role of Women in the 21st Century”

This essay discusses how visionary models of leadership that emphasize teamwork, cooperation and communication are clearly needed at a time when the world faces daunting social, economic and political challenges. It focuses on how women leaders can bring new models of leadership and transform society.

Duce Gotora was also runner up at Linacre and had submitted a traditional African fable entitled:

“The Carrier Fool”

Gotora explains that the fable shows that "what is required is not a model based on any one leadership style but rather a fluid style in which the appropriate skill is called upon at the appropriate to time. There is a time for visionary leadership and a time for managerial leadership. There is a time for intellectually based leadership and a time for charismatic leadership. Most of these styles can be developed and it is for the would-be-leader to remain teachable and equip him/her-self."

Finalist of the Award, Doris Schedlitzki at the Saïd Business School submitted an essay entitled:

“Will the 21st century require new models of leadership?”

This paper argues that it is time to free ourselves from the human desire to impose structure on our context and to accept and try to understand the immense complexity and significance of leadership in organisations in a more hands-on fashion.

It looks at the development of leadership theory in the 20th century and canvasses leadership definitions and models.

The 2006 ADC Gandel Oration

In 2006, the ADC Gandel Oration was delivered by Gareth Evans, President of the International Crisis Group at The University of New South Wales, Sydney on 30 April 2006

Atrocity Crimes: Overcoming Global Indifference

Medecins Sans Frontieres Australia

MSF shows treating children with HIV/AIDS is possible but expensive and calls for action

"Globally, an estimated 2.3 million children are living with HIV, the vast majority in sub-Saharan Africa. Nine out of ten newly infected children acquire the virus through mother-to-child transmission, largely because efforts to prevent this are insufficient. Far too few children receive treatment – only 5% of the 660,000 in urgent need - and there are no appropriate tests for diagnosing infants and very few adapted tools to treat children...As an example, the dose of zidovudine required to treat an adult costs US$175 per year. The amount of API in the adult dose is more than a third of that contained in a dose of zidovidune syrup for treating a child under 10 kg. Logically, the syrup should cost US$40. However, the drug is marketed for US$215, over 5 times more than that...“Lack of guidance from WHO is making the treatment of children even more confusing, and some clear indications three years ago could have really helped avoid this,” said Fernando Pascual, pharmacist with MSF’s Campaign for Access to Essential Medicines."