Migration of High Skilled Workers in Australia

The assignment content discusses the migration of high-skilled workers in Australia's IT and education sectors. It highlights various factors contributing to this phenomenon, including firm strategy, demand condition, and nature of customers. The Porter Diamond Model is introduced as a tool to understand and address this issue, with suggestions on how industries and organizations can retain skilled workers. The content also touches on the impact of technological innovations, infrastructure, and capital on company operations.

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Migration of High Skilled Workers in Australia in IT and Education and Porter
Diamond Model
Background
Skilled workers in the Information and technology sector have been witnessed to
migrate from other Australia to other parts of the world. Migration of these workers can be
resulted by a number of factors which may vary from IT and Education. There is also a model
of the Porter Diamond that can be used very effectively to understand the concept of the
migration of the skilled workers and suggesting ways on how the industries and different
organizations in Australia to retain the skilled workers. The model would as well help the
companies to compete globally and resemble a diamond (Cavusgil, 2014, p.104).
Migration of High skilled workers in IT and Education; Australia
The Information and technology industries in Australia, such as; IBM, Canon, Cityrix
and Fujitsu have experienced migration of their skilled workers together with education
industries in both private and government sector. One of the causes to this problem is the
issue of the firm strategy. Due to the high competition between these companies in Australia,
Information Technology positions that can accommodate these workers is limited. The IT
industries has been faced with high competition which in turn is not productive as expected.
According to this model, competition can hike due to the demand condition and the nature of
the customers. When the demand for the product is low in Australia, there is less job
opportunities and therefore, workers may migrate to other places.
Small organizations in Australia, like the ones that are in specific regions like New
South Wales, Victoria or any other region but are not international are as well leading to
migration of the skilled workers. According to the model, there is the issue of the related

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supporting industries. The domestic industries in Australia that are IT based like Telstra and
Computershare have acted so well in equipping the workers with high quality standards
skills. Afterwards, the company workers achieve the international standards in the IT
knowledge. They migrate to other countries or other organisation for higher security of their
skills and job as well as well-paying jobs. (Riasi, 2015, p.18).
There are also other factors like technological innovations, infrastructure and also
capital that can arise for the companies. For instance, when a new ICT strategy is to be
implemented in the broadcasting corporations in corporate countries, it is possible for the
Australian workers to move to those places so as they can facilitate it because Australia has
qualified IT experts from the related supporting industries in the state.
Workers migrate from the Australian education industries because of the chances
around them. It is a result of more specific benefits that the workers ought to secure.
Exchange rates, wars and decisions that may be taken by a foreign government can arouse the
quest to migrating from an Australian industry to those countries. When there is a higher
demand for high skilled experts in outside Australia, the education experts are more likely to
shift attention towards migration to those states. Australia is known for giving education
industries a high priority and thus, trained workers in different disciplines have been
migrating every year, for instance, there are very many Australian Educators in Asia who
have migrated due to various reasons.

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References
Cavusgil, S.T., Knight, G., Riesenberger, J.R., Rammal, H.G. and Rose, E.L., 2014.
International business. Pearson Australia.
Fainshmidt, S., Smith, A. and Judge, W.Q., 2016. National Competitiveness and Porter's
Diamond Model: The Role of MNE Penetration and Governance Quality. Global Strategy
Journal, 6(2), pp.81-104.
Khoo, S.E., 2014. Attracting and retaining globally mobile skilled migrants: policy
challenges based on Australian research. International Migration, 52(2), pp.20-30.
Riasi, A., 2015. Competitive advantages of shadow banking industry: An analysis using
Porter diamond model. Business Management and Strategy, 6(2), pp.15-27.