This week’s speaker is Prof. Piyush Sharma speaking on Multicultural Readiness Instrument (MRI): A tool to measure, benchmark and improve multicultural readiness of Australian services sector

 In this talk, Professor Sharma would introduce his ongoing research with his colleague Associate Professor Russel Kingshott and their PhD student Dr Zahra Daneshfar, on the unique challenges and opportunities offered by the growing multicultural nature of the Australian society and workplaces for the Australian services sector. Specifically, he would discuss a multidimensional conceptual framework used by them to conceptualise multicultural readiness at both individual and organisational levels. Next, he would describe how they developed a self-report questionnaire to measure this construct and share the findings from a large-scale survey with about 2000 participants from multicultural organisations across diverse categories in the Australian services sector. He would also discuss the implications of their findings for the Australian service organisations and future applications of their MRI tool, including a couple of recently successful ARC grant applications.

Our usual lunch meeting, bar opens at 12:30pm please arrive by 12:45 for 1:00 start.

Choice of soup and salad ($26) or main meal ($36), payment to club account by bank transfer preferred.

Duties

Bulletin: Keith Ryall

Table: Kaye Smith & Casey Tan

Wine: Tony Broughton