1. Seminar
MNCs in Emerging Markets:
International Human Resource Management
5 March 2014
UQ Business School Executive Venue
Central Plaza One, Level 19
345 Queen Street, Brisbane, Queensland, 4000 Wednesday,
3.00pm – 5.00pm followed by a networking session
Speakers and tentative Speech Topic
Practitioners
Marion Schuddinh
Senior HR Executive
Rio Tinto (until recently)
Speech Topic: Experiences on how MNCs manage their
corporate strategic HRM from corporate to subsidiaries
in emerging markets, and links with Corporate Social
Responsibility.
Peter Watson
Executive General Manager – Australia
Sedgman Limited
Speech Topic: Case Studies - an executive view:
Transferring strategic HRM from corporate to
subsidiaries in emerging markets.
Lisa Barry
Lead Client Service Partner, Wesfarmers
Global Leader - Talent, Performance and Reward
Practice Global Talent Leader
Deloitte
Speech Topic: Global Talent management & Emerging
Markets
Mick Nash
General Manager Employee relations
Vale (Asia, Oceania & Middle East)
Speech Topic: How a MNC from an emerging market
manage their corporate strategic HRM from corporate
to subsidiaries in a developed country (Australia).
Trinidad Greene (TBC)
Human Resources Manager
BHP Billiton
Speech Topic: Case study: How BHP Billiton bridged the
gap between academics and practitioners to solve an
emerging market professional scarcity.
Academics
Professor Karin Sanders
Organisational Behaviour and Human Resource
Management (HRM)
School of Management, Australian School of Business
University of New South Wales, Sydney
Speech Topic: Human Resource Management and
MNCs
Professor Charmine E. J. Härtel
Professor of Human Resource Management and
Organisational Development, Business School
University of Queensland
Speech Topic: Human Resource Management and
Corporate Social Responsibility
Dr Elaine Farndale
Assistant Professor in Human Resource Management
School of Labor and Employment Relations
Pennsylvania State University
Affiliated to the Department of Human Resource
Studies at Tilburg University in the Netherlands
Speech Topic: Strategic International human Resource
management, and Emerging Markets.