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Shakers & Breakers Much more to sustainability in IT than being green, says AIIA
Shakers & Breakers Much more to sustainability in IT than being green, says AIIA | Much more to sustainability in IT than being green, says AIIA |
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| Written by Stuart Corner | |
| Sunday, 13 January 2008 | |
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Moon contends that while the reduction of 'power-in-and-carbon-out' remains the current focus of world media, "the ICT industry will need to think much more laterally about the concept of sustainability in order to remain economically viable and intellectually relevant into the future." She claimed that the IT industry's 'sustainability' was under threat from three forces: falling ICT student enrolments, an increasingly competitive labour market and the imminent retirement of the baby boomer generation. "These factors are a potent combination, and potentially lethal to the skills that ICT relies upon," Moon said and she called for "strong leadership and integrated programs that will transform the nature of industry workplaces to address these problems." Number one priority for the industry to attract and retain new staff, according to Moon is "to address the health of our workplaces...Job stress and poor management practices have become all too common in modern business, and the workforce effects are now beginning to be well documented. These issues are strong drivers of absenteeism and among the most significant factors in high staff turnover and separation. The ICT industry cannot afford this." Her comments come as a survey of employers in the US by an IT staffing agency claims to have found that management of 'millennials' - the 18-31 age group and source of the future IT workforce - is one of the toughest management challenges facing employers. Moon called for the industry to stage "a return to the age-old management principles of establishing trust, communicating a clear vision, and setting goals and objectives that align with both corporate and individual values." According to Moon: "What the industry needs are new ideas to deliver these values to our workplaces and change them for the better. We cannot afford to sit idly by while problems that we have long been aware of eat into our most valuable resource, the skilled workforce." Moon's views were expressed in an AIIA press release. However it offered to information on any specific AIIA initiatives to address the challenges identified by Moon.
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