WESTERN AUSTRALIAN TREASURY CORPORATION

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WESTERN AUSTRALIANTREASURY CORPORATION

• Put Yourself in My Place An account of
  improving the representation of People with
  Disabilities in a small public sector agency.
• Michael Webb, Chief Executive Officer

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Managing Diversity in Treasury Corporation

• The process of actively managing diversity is
  more elusive, less prescriptive and less
  accessible than its bureaucratic counterpart
• C. Woodhams A. Danieli (2000)

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Managing Diversity in Treasury Corporation

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Managing Diversity in Treasury Corporation

• Equity and Diversity Management Plan
• A compelling business case
• Recruitment and retention
• Values leadership
• Diversity makes for engaging and creative
  workplaces
• Representative of our client base
• Internal Consultation
• External Consultation

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Senior Management Commitment

• research into the more long-standing
  legislation on sex and race discrimination
  indicates that while it has frequently led
  organisations to develop more formal policies
  aimed at ensuring equality of treatment, these
  policies have in practice often yielded
  disappointing results. A variety of factors have
  been identified as contributing to this limited
  impact. One of the most commonly identified is a
  lack of senior management commitment.
• P Dibben, P James and I Cunningham (2000)

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Senior Management Commitment

• Lead by example
• Commitment and support from the Board
• Support for line managers
• Mentoring of employees with disabilities

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Effective Human Resource Management

• Extending diversity objectives through management
  of reasonable adjustments
• Job design
• Safety and health management
• Training
• Ongoing support for all employees

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Challenges

• Avoiding complacency
• Retention of employees with disabilities
• Truly enabling individual potential
• Ongoing organisational change

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Conclusions

• Embracing diversity principles
• Supported through agency specific business case
• Executive support is integral
• Effective management of reasonable adjustment

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In this life we cannot do great things. We can
only do small things with great love.Mother
Teresa