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Skill Shortage : Case Study

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The resource companies appear to have been caught unawares by the shortage of skilled and professional labour . Why

Skill Shortage

The resource companies are unaware of technical changes in their workforce as a result of the need for high technology requirement as we tend towards globalization . The skilled and professionals in the organization are very willing to keep pace with the advancement in technology , a fact mostly neglected by resource companies (James William , 2004 . This

results to the shifting to other scenarios , which are favourable to their needs . This leaves a vacuum in their previous positions . The labour force available to fill the vacuum lacks the necessary experience thus skills creating the problem of skills shortage

The other area is the ignorance of resource companies to update human resource training . The companies are suddenly met with the automation of the required skills . This calls for retraining of the existing labour force , which is costly , and time consuming . There is a vacuum in the resource companies due to the failure to translate the advancing technology to the applicability in the business . The companies also lack highly qualified consultancy working in a modern style to analyze the possible techniques and equate them with practical business

What are the implications for industrial relations in the resources sector

The federal parliament in Australia is empowered by the constitution to make laws concerning conciliation and arbitration for the settlement and prevention of industrial disputes extending beyond the limit of any one state . The laws made with respect to trading and financial corporations fall within the limits of the commonwealth and foreign corporations Industrial relations systems and wages setting have been enhanced by this system also known as work choice , which came into operation in 2006 (Armstrong , 2002

A wide range of flexibility in work organizations and practice out of these agreements have resulted to the following positive attributes hours of work has been better balanced to allow for work and personal life , allowances have been rationalized , remunerations arrangements have been made more flexible an productivity has been boasted through a number of measures (Bernard , Reams 1994

The importance of the workplace relations and other Legislation Amendments Acts 1996 such as the Work choice Relations Act is immensely overwhelming . This is highlighted in their ability to displace the Industrial Relations Court of Australia , which was transferred to other courts mainly the federal courts of Australia . The earlier legislations such as the industrial laws were quite detrimental to employees at the advantage of the employer since the employers could fire workers and slash wages at will without any serious action taken on the part of the employer . The negligence on the part of the employer could not be overlooked since the negligence also bear some negative impact on the part of the employer . This arises from the fact that the employee dissatisfaction has a direct relationship with the ultimate potential output of the employee (Bischoff , 1985

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