Introduction Chum Hum Australia was built six months ago and 200 new staff has been recruited. To make it a great workplace, Chum Hum has introduced few of the workplace culture initiatives such as organizing free breakfast, lunch, dinner for all the staff, free haircuts and full access to the office gym, swimming pools and nap pods. Even though the workplace initiatives are world class notorious, it has not been receiving a good response in terms of socializing outside the workplace. For instance, when the office staff was asked to utilize Yammer, a corporate social networking app, they did get very few responses in regards to creating a free account with yammer. As there was no such response from the workforce, they started sending out emails advising everyone to create an account and use it to socialize with the employees outside work and the first comment stated that they asking them to do this on weekends is foolish. From the case study it is evident that chum hum is confronting several issues which can be at a disadvantage later in terms of employee retention. The main problem in this case study is the company culture. This essay will present the issues Chum hum Australia is facing. In the next paragraph, alternatives for these problems will be addressed. Alongside their organization culture, the problems will focus on recruiting top engineers and finally on training and development. In addition to this, one or two practical solution or recommendations would be
The GM organization has been described as an organization with great culture crisis, the story in the study screams culture problems in the organization where employees are fired, many policy and procedures changes at without prior notice to them. Culture encompasses all the values and behaviors that constitute to a unique socialization which is a component of a healthy working environment for employees (Fullan, M. (2001). Culture greatly influences the organization 's output and performance; it as well provides better guidelines on customer care and service in addition to the concern for the environment.
Internal advertisement is one method to be used, where companies announce/advertise its job vacancies to its existing employees, which may represent promotions. Sainsbury’s usually places internal advertisement to select supervisor and internal staff transaction; they put advertisement at company’s notice board or make announcements at meetings cross stores within the region. It will be easier for company to select suitable candidates because existing employees has more knowledge and cost less for the company.
A number of demographic factors will also affect Qantas’s business operation over the coming five years. With an aging Australian population, scarcity of talent, and a globalised work force, HR must be
This is a case study done on the company Dialog Axiata PLC, under the module HRS 202 SL Managing people held by NSBM affiliated with University of Plymouth UK. This case will look into brief description of the company and discuss its procedures of recruitment, selection and induction of its executive level staff. Also discuss on the strengths and weaknesses of the procedures.
In today’s society our traditional work patterns are changing rapidly. There are structural changes that affects our Australian society. The demographics in our economy is changing. The nature of work and the patterns of Australians’ working lives are changing. It is argued that changes in work patterns is to boost productivity, provide flexibility for workers, employers, businesses and enterprises that forms our Australian economy and to reduce labour costs.
ratification whereby the Convention will come into force and have a binding effect on the state. Upon the ratification of the Convention, a state will officially be subjected to the ILO’s supervisory system and will have a legal obligation to implement the Convention in its national law and practice.
The Fair Work Commission is Australia’s national workplace relations tribunal. They are responsible in maintaining the minimum wages/salaries and working conditions. They also deal with a range of other work related and employment problems and disputes.
The Qantas Airways is the largest airline in Australia. Its Human Resource Management operates in the company in four major areas, which are business segments, corporate, shared services, development, and learning. This report gives limelight to the Qantas airways HRM and its role in ensuring perfect operations of the company. It further discusses change management and job analysis and design. The company has undergone intensive change management such as cutting of prices and labor costs in order to ensure high productivity, moderation of wages as well as the introduction of flexible structures through a versatile and motivated workforce. Moreover, the HRM is also responsible of ensuring that right people are hired and
This report illustrates about the closure of Holden plants at port Melbourne and Adelaide in 2017. This Report tells about the different ways of human resource department work on three areas in training and development, performance management and reward management to maintain the productivity and maintain efficient work force in employees of the organisation.
International research suggests that diversity in the workplace is crucial to modern society. This report examines the issue of lacking workplace diversity in the field of engineering. In particular, it will discuss how participation rates among women and indigenous Australians should be improved, and how the rates compare to other industries. Furthermore, the report studies the topic of opportunity and how predetermined factors have influenced the range of diversity in this field and how incorporating diversity may influence business performance.
Nowadays, it is widely thinking that law was a boring and inflexibility subject, but I wonder that may not the right viewpoint. For example, in my college the professor likes us to attending the Fair Work Tribunal/Fair Work Australia (FWA), have hearing and discussing the case, I think that makes law became very interesting and vividly, because by time when we hearing the real cases, those knowledge’s could deep-going in our mind.
Since the 1990’s 75% of new jobs created have been casual. Structural reform has lead to underemployment within the labour force, where employees are working less than full time hours and are willing to work more hours. The average Australian works only 16 hours a week and 1 in 3 part-time employees’ want more hours indicating the under-utilization of the Australian labour force. In addition, by 2013 to 2014 only 30% of occupations experienced skill shortages in relation to the 2007-08 periods which saw skill shortages increase by
The sustained superior financial performance of a firm’s excellent management can be communicated through the managerial view of organisational culture, where strong culture can evidently been seen as the endeavour to an organisation’s success. (Barney 1986) emphasises the need for strong culture not only to enhance the firm’s performance, but it is also vital in improving employee morale or quality of work life. Due to the relationship between conflicts in the workplace originated from poor management, culture’s diverse values, assumptions, beliefs and symbols interweave the affiliation between employees and management. Culture therefore, aids in the behaviour which allows the increasing progress of economic value and sustained superior financial performance to the firm thus, benefiting their interest in profit maximisation (Ulrich & Brockman 2005). The progress of this management has been assisted by the careful selection and recruitment of employees through valid and reliable methods (Carmeli & Tishler 2004), with training and development in order to maintain this performance in the work organisation. Likewise, Westco, of the top five food retailing organisations in the UK is
Turnover has a negative connotation attached to it, with good reason. Not many people would want to tell someone that they have been fired or that they quit their job because maybe they found it hard or going through something which is stopping them from doing the job. There are many reasons for turnover. Explored in this essay is why people work in the first place. From this information, we can get more details of the reasons for turnover and how Australia compares to other countries. But before exploring that we should look at what turnover is, different types of turnover and is turnover always a bad thing? It is then necessary to look at turnover implications for human resource management (HRM). Lastly, it is helpful to look at identify
The Australian workforce environment contains high levels of cultural diversity, which faces large issues of workplace bullying, primarily due to the diversity of culture. In accordance with Rayner and Hoel (1997), the notion of bullying centers around repeated and unreasonable destructive behaviours, from one person or group, towards others. Furthermore, in conjunction with the Australian Human Rights Commission (2017), workplace bullying unfavourably affects the physical and psychopathic health of an individual.