Sustainable HR Restructures
Tailer Made for Dusiness Needs, restructures always follow a strategy

The AIM Mackay Committee has selected the topic ‘Sustainable Management' as the overarching topic for its 2010 Discussion Forums and each of the speakers will be addressing the topic from a different perspective. 

Sustainable management will mean different things to different people depending on their profession, experience and areas of interest.  For some it may be in relation to environmental sustainability with concern for the built environment, commissioning custom-designed buildings and making efforts to reduce the company's carbon footprint through careful consumption and management of natural resources.  Many large organisations are already considering this aspect and in future clients may choose to work only with those organisations who practice such environmental sustainability.

For others it may be in relation to ensuring that their human ‘capital' is developed and maintained to ensure an adequately skilled and well-balanced workforce as part of succession planning and the longer term sustainability of the business.  It could also be in relation to financial sustainability particularly in the wake of the GFC when many companies have realised that previous management practices are no longer appropriate and have not place in the ‘new world'.

One thing is sure, to be successful in the future, organisations need to realise that sustainable management is about understanding the need for balance across all forms of capital - human, natural, manufactured, and financial, and managers should be keeping themselves informed of the latest developments and implementing necessary changes to ensure continuing future success.

Speaker Profile

Rick D'Amato
Dalrymple Bay Coal Terminal P/L

Rick trained as a psychologist and worked for QLD Health for 9 years, and still runs a psychology clinic after hours Monday to Friday.

Rick worked as the HR manager for Mackay Health Service District for 3 years, then moved to Dalrymple Bay Coal Terminal P/L as the senior HR advisor and then into the HR managers role for DBCT P/L and has been there for 4 years.

Working as a generalist HR manager which encompasses all of HR personnel issues and have the training component attached to HR as well. Rick has a small staff group of 8 with DBCT P/L now employing 320 employees.

As the company has grown, HR is being restructured to suit the business needs and this entails a full Organisational Development project and reorganisation of the HR department.