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With the tentacles of environmental impact now stretching to all industries, it’s time to consider your options for contributing to a greener future. By Professor Lee D. Parker Global warming, the greenhouse effect, drought, pollution and land degradation are all hot topics of contemporary public discussion and policy debate. We are well accustomed to calls for business to become engaged in environmental protection and conservation. To many managers such issues may appear minor or irrelevant to their areas of business.
Ensuring staff wellbeing sounds like commonsense. But companies that value happy workers need to have a policy flexible enough to accommodate the varied needs of today’s employees.
In tangible and intangible ways, work means fulfilment to many people. For management, the demands of the modern workplace means consideration for issues of staff wellbeing. The following two features look at what wellbeing means, and the dramatic impact that depression and stress have on people and industry in Australia.
A model for virtuous leadership is made up of seven characteristics: courage, integrity, humility, compassion, passion, wisdom and humour. By Carolyn Barker AM
Today’s organisations need to change their DNA and be brave enough to think about a new “type” of leadership, as well as a new framework to evaluate good leadership. The Virtuous Leadership Framework lays a provocative groundwork for such action.
David Gonski AO, leading corporate chairman, director, university chancellor and philanthropist, talks with Jennifer Alexander about the chairman's role and the things that matter to him in business and society.
Physical and electronic security is becoming more complex even as it remains paramount to business interests. David Braue discusses the changing nature of total corporate protection.
In January this year, as part of a guerilla marketing campaign in Boston, electronic devices were used depicting the Mooninites, characters from the Aqua Teen Hunger Force cartoon. Boston authorities, thinking the devices looked suspicious, closed down roads and waterways to investigate. It paralysed the city.
Australian managerial talent is making its presence felt in the world market in a wide variety of sectors and at all levels of business. Darren Baguley investigates the reasons why Aussies are sought after in the world of management.
The Commonwealth Bank's Chief Executive, Ralph Norris, has one of the most challenging jobs around. Jennifer Alexander asked him for his thoughts on management issues, and what it takes to inspire 35,000 staff.
