Challenges Faced by HR Managers in Employee Relocation: A Case Study of BlueScope Steel Company

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HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT ISSUE 1
Introduction
Selecting new workplace spaces and relocating there is the procedure that many
organizations are going through years. Not only is this transfer procedure a important occasion in
the sequence of an organization’s lifespan because it carries a interruption to the business
operations, the choices about location and office clarification regulate the upcoming working
situation which can have a important influence on efficiency, effectiveness, employees pleasure,
and meeting the complete business purposes (Whitaker, 2010). Previous studies regularly
focused on the importance of the location or business operations. But this changing location also
give arise to many challenges for the person working under this business environment. As per
study it has been found that change of location have different impact on the life flow of the
person (Andresen & Margenfeld, 2015). Most cases are triggering towards the negative side of
this change. Work culture of Australia is completely different from the work culture of Canada.
Even the policies related to the labor laws of Canada are different from that of Australia. Also
geographical difference adds one more point in life style of Australia as compared to that of
Canada (Aziz et.al, 2011).
HR management challenges face in relocating from Australia to Canada
Recently the US government has given an announcement according to which they are
exempting BlueScope steel product from US steel trade which had changed the business
environment of the company (Bluescope, 2018). Although the BlueScope Steel Company is
same in both countries, but their working culture, demographic and even their geographic is
completely different. The people of Canada are friendlier and love to work in groups while in
Australia people are not so friendly and love to work in individual style (Shaw, McPhail &
Ressia, 2018). They do not like working in groups and always go for taking individual
responsibility because they do not trust on any other person. But in Canada the people give value
to joint efforts they have a common slogan “working together, winning together”. They hate
individualism kind of personality (Christersson & Rothe, 2012). In Canadian culture
individualism person means a mean person which only thinks about his benefit and tries to
exploit others for the same. As, the manager has been working in BlueScope steel company in
Australia branch from many years so naturally the person has adopted the working culture of
Australia that is Individualism. Hence it will not be easy to transfer that person in that working
culture which is completely opposite of the Australia. In fact they hat this kind of culture, hence
the HR manager has to put lot of effort to make that person ready to change his personality and
adopt new culture (Njagi, 2012). This can be only possible with the help of training or it can be
said that training is the most important phase in this kind of situations. Another issue which HR
manager will face is the nature or climate difference of the two countries. The Canada country is
totally surrounded with hills and it climate change is sudden while in Australia it is surrounded
with sea so it has almost fixed climate (Wright & Lansbury, 2016). Adjusting in this sudden
climate change will be big challenge for the person who is habitat of living in Australian climate
and has suddenly had to adopt new living climate. This is a kind of issue in which HR manager