Faculty of Business and Law

Senator Christine Milne visited the Faculty in June, to meet with Dr. Kala Saravanamuthu to discuss her research on a  Sustainability Toolkit.

The Sustainability Toolkit is designed to assist local communities to minimise the impact of their activities on nature and the larger society. In particular the toolkit uses  the UN's Precautionary principle  to integrate combine  footprint data pertaining to a particular catchment in a way that is meaningful to local stakeholders.  This integrated feedback encourages stakeholders to transcend their individual wants in the interest of shared environmental concerns. Image

Professor Bai, Head of the Education Office of the Chinese Consulate General visited the Faculty of Business and Law to discuss the Faculty's research and teaching collaborations in China.
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The Employment Relations and Human Resource Management Group combined with the Faculty’s Executive and Corporate Programs to deliver an innovative intensive 4 day residential course, called "Foundations of Workplace Relations and Employee Engagement", for managers in Hunter-based organisations, in late April.
Participants attended classes presented by Johanna Macneil, John Lewer and Mark Bray. The feedback was extremely positive, with all wanting more courses in this mode and promising to highly recommend them to their respective organisations. The positive feedback was especially pleasing given the experience and seniority of the participants.

The participants were mainly middle managers (both line managers and ER/HR specialists) in organisations including Country Energy, CSIRO, Energy Australia, Hunter and New England Health, Hydro Aluminium, Macquarie Generation, Muswellbrook Shire Council, Newcastle City Council, NIB, One Steel, Tomago Aluminium and Xstrata.