Project Management Case Study 2022

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As per the case study, the country manager hired 10 new employees from overseas and
they are arriving in Australia. The purpose to the report is to know the business communication
practices adopted in Australia so that new employees do not face any challenges.
Communication is the action of transmitting meanings from one group to another with the
utilization of mutual understood symbols and signs (Barker & Cole, 2015). In this report,
various articles are reviewed to find the communication practices in Australian companies. In
this recommendation is also provided to new employees about the competent and incompetent
behavior in Australian workplace.
The literature review is done to analyze the communication practices adopted in
Australian workplace. Macnamara conducted the study to know the current communication
practices adopted in Sydney; researcher believes that mostly companies in Australia hired
overseas employees (Macnamara, 2016). The study is also conducted to know the factors which
are influencing in effective communication in the organization. In this study, the researcher
adopted the secondary research and reviewed various articles on the subject matter of the
communication practices adopted in Australia for the effective communication with their
employees. From the analysis, the researcher finds that organizations in Australia used new
media practices digital text and video with web-links. The researcher also finds that public
relation impacts the communication among the employees. Wiewiora, Trigunarsyah, Murphy
and Coffey objective of the study is to find the relationship between message behavior and
culture of the organization with the performance of the organization in Australian context
(Wiewiora, Trigunarsyah, Murphy, & Coffey, 2013). The researcher conducted this study
because it believes that not more of the researches are conducted to know the communication
strategies adopted by the organization in Australia. In this study researcher used both primary
and secondary method, the secondary method is used by reviewing various articles and primary
method is adopted by taking survey and organizing interviews from the companies in Australia.
However, from the analysis the researcher finds that the company mainly used the social media
strategy by communicating in written and through communicating orally the Australian
companies use the practices of code-switching.
According to Love and Singh workplace branding leads in retaining the existing
employees, attracting and recruiting new employees (Love & Singh, 2011). Researcher believes

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that it is significant for the study to increase the workplace branding to sustain in the competitive
environment. However, the researcher conducted the study to know the strategies used in the
Australian workforce for motivating a well as retaining the employees in the organization. In this
study researcher used the primary method and conducted the survey in the Australians
companies from the employees, executive and managers. From the analysis, the researcher finds
that for motivating and sustaining in the competitive environment Australian companies used the
strategy of effective communication. In this study, researcher use the practices of online meeting
weekly and monthly for discussing the issues, guiding them and motivating them to accomplish
the objective. Ballantyne, Frow, Varey & Payne objective of the study to know the strategies
which the organization used to deal with the competent and incompetent behavior of the
employees through communication practices in the Australian context (Ballantyne, Frow, Varey,
& Payne, 2011). However, the researcher believes that it is important to satisfy the needs and
requirements of the employees because they will become efficient in achieving the objective of
the organization. In this study researcher used the secondary approach that is it reviewed various
articles to get the in-depth information about the Australian companies. In this study the
researcher finds that majority of the company use the practice of reciprocal value propositions, it
is helpful in creating the value and in managing the competent and incompetent behavior of
employees.
Hossain conducted the study in the top 100 ASX listed companies of Australia (Dumay &
Hossain, 2019). The objective of the study is to know the communication strategies used by them
to controlling the competent and non-competent behavior of new as well as old employees of the
organization. For the colleting the information about the companies, researcher used the
secondary approach and collects the data about the company from the Annual report and through
newspaper, magazines etc. From analyzing the data, the researcher finds that most of the
Australian companies adopt the strategy of on-boarding process for the new employees. It is the
internal knowledge, which results in effective as well as efficient communication. Nettle,
Crawford and Brightling conducted the study to know the communication strategies used in the
workplace while communicating with the employees (Nettle, Crawford, & Brightling, 2018).
The study is also conducted to find the issues and challenges which affect the management in
effective communication in the Australian organization. The study used the primary method, that
is information is collected through the online survey and semi-structured interview with the