Referencing Styles : Harvard You are the Australian based HR manager of a major multinational resources organisation that has its headquarters in London. You work from an office in Melbourne. The organisation has decided to transfer a South African-born manager (with extensive experience working in the minerals industry in that country) currently working from head office in London to manage a new mine located near Moranbah in Central Queensland. This manager will be living in Moranbah. You are asked to write a report for your Chief Executive Officer in Melbourne on the employment relations and human resource management issues that will impact on the working life of this manager in Australia. Your report will be used to brief the new manager before he/she takes up the new management position (40 marks). THAT IS AN EMAIL FROM OUR TEACHER “I do not expect a detailed analysis of the HR issues that will impact on the working life of an expatriate manager who is working in the coal industry in Queensland, but your reports must discuss the HR issues that will impact on the working life of an expatriate manager in the coal industry in Queensland. The essay marks would have been improved if there had have been more discussion of the working life of an expatriate manager in the United Kingdom. In a postgraduate course I do expect you to be able to identify and discuss the HR issues that have been debated in the public domain. These issues are clearly identified in the reading material on the coal industry. If you have any questions, please talk to your campus lecturer if you are enrolled as a metropolitan student or to me if you are enrolled as a FLEX student. I will again allow wide discretion on your part with respect to the issues that you discuss in this report provided of course that they are relevant to the question that has been set for the report. It is very important that you answer the question that has been asked because by and large the essays with the poorest marks were the ones where only a very limited attempt was made to answer the question that was actually asked. “ Dear students, The following references are relevant to any discussion of employment relations in the coal industry in Queensland: Bahn, S, Barratt-Pugh, L & Yap, G 2012, 'The employment of skilled migrants on temporary 457 visas in Australia: emerging issues', Labour and Industry, vol. 22, no. 4, pp. 379-398. Bowden, B & Barry, M 2015, 'Recasting industrial relations: Productivity, place and the Queensland coal industry, 2001-2013', Journal of Industrial Relations, vol. 57, no. 1, pp. 48-71. House of Representatives Standing Committee on Regional Australia 2013, Cancer of the bush or salvation for our cities?: Fly-in, fly-out and drive-in, drive-out workforce practices in Regional Australia, Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia, Canberra. Ingram, T 2014, '”FIFO lifestyle 'the best of both worlds'”, Australian Financial Review, 30 September, p. 24. Murray, G & Peetz, D 2010, Women of the coal rushes, University of New South Wales Press, Sydney. Peetz, D & Murray, G 2011, '”You get really old, really quick”: Involuntary long hours in the mining industry', Journal of Industrial Relations, vol. 53, no. 1, pp. 13-29. Peetz, D, Murray, G & Muurlink, O 2014, 'Work-life interference and gender in the mining and energy industry', Labour and Industry, vol. 24, no. 4, pp. 286-301. Stevens, M 2012, 'Unions drive BHP to distraction', Australian Financial Review, 28 February, p. 46. Stevens, M 2012, 'A hollow victory for Dumble', Australian Financial Review, 23 October, p. 42. Stevens, M 2014, 'Smile wiped off the coal face', Australian Financial Review, 24 September, p. 34. Stevens, M 2015, 'Canaries singing for Australian coal', Australian Financial Review, 28 February-1 March, p. 41. Wilshire, C 2013, 'Temporary migration serves national interest', Australian Financial Review, 19 March, p. 47. Please remember that you have wide discretion to discuss in the report employment relations issues that you consider to be relevant to the future of the coal industry in Queensland. Best wishes,