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Balancing work and life conference

Work-Life Balance: Challenges and Solutions

Aims
Program

The Department of Employment and Industrial Relations and the Centre for Work, Leisure and Community Research at Griffith University held a one-day conference on 20 November 2006, highlighting challenges and responses to work-life balance issues.

Aims

The conference:

Program

8.00

Registration open

8.30

Welcome and introductions

8.45 - 10.30

Opening session - International and Australian approaches to work/life balance: why standing still is not an option

  • Professor Linda Duxbury (Carleton University): Work-life balance initiatives overseas
  • Pru Goward (HREOC): Perspectives on work-life balance in Australia

10.30-11.00

Morning tea

11.00-12.45

What does current Australian research say about work, families and well-being?

  • Professor Peter Brown (Griffith University): Individual perspective - How employees experience and manage time.
  • Family perspective - How families achieve work-life balance.
  • Associate Professor Gillian Whitehouse (University of Queensland) Workplace/organisational perspective: Impact of Work Choices and organisational approaches to work-life balance.
  • Dr Lyndall Strazdins (National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health): Policy perspective - The intersection of economic, social and health policy agendas in addressing issues of work/life integration.

12.45-1.30

Lunch

1.30-3.30

How are government, businesses and unions responding to work/life issues?

  • Dr Marjolein Broers (Department of Employment and Industrial Relations): Government perspective - government initiatives to improve work-life balance
  • Large business perspective - winning work/life strategies for large organisations
  • Julie Edwards (Cairns Colonial Club Resort): Medium-sized business perspective - winning work/life strategies for medium sized organisations
  • Small business perspective - winning work/life strategies for small organisations
  • Grace Grace (Queensland Council of Unions): Union perspective - promoting work/life integration - how unions can help

3.30-4.00

Afternoon tea

4.00-4.30

Rounding up and close


Last updated June 2, 2009