BHP People & Culture and Change Management Strategy Implementation Report
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This report discusses BHP's strategy implementation on people & culture and change management. It covers their culture of care and trust, extensive training and development, gender equality and LGBT inclusion, and more. The report also provides recommendations for enhancing employee engagement and safety control.
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Assessment item 4 Strategy Implementation Group Report People & culture and change management Company: BHP 1|P a g e
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Implementation Culture of care and trust BHP has 62000 employees; company invests intensively on employee growth and culture development. Key element is trust, freedom to exchange new ideas and creativity. Sustainability report states, need for enhancing employee engagement. There is lack of smoothness in work processes(bhp.com, 2018). Comparatively high compensation Competitive remuneration strategy is implemented to motivate employees to make more business. Company aims to develop trustful culture through enhancing leader’s capability and diverse workforce(bhp.com, 2018). Extensive training and development Company invests heavily on developing front line leaders, face to face and digital workshops are being arranged to improve leadership, process and strategy. Further, in terms of strategic improvement there is need to improve change management strategies and decision implementation process by leaders. Company does accept inherent hazards in different business operations due to its nature, in 2017 two employees died in a tragedy. To overcome such fatal injuries company formed a team of independent senior leaders to identify different organizational improvements. Several training programs were held to create awareness; a global risk improvement plan was also implemented. Further, new strategies are required to reinforce that safety come before productivity, need to enhance internal investigation process, enhance quality of safety by removing people from potential danger points. BHP also implemented various field leadership programs to ensure safe operations; there is a common training and control program to record field leadership activities(Hubbard, Rice, & Galvin, 2014). Gender equality and LGBT inclusion Presently there is 22.4 percent women employee working in BHP(Mackenzie, 2017). Inclusion and diversity is key cultural factor, it aims to provide safe and supportive environment for all employee including BHP’s lesbian,gay, bisexual, transgender and others (LGBT+) community and its allies(bhp.com, 2018).Safety of employees, contractors and communities is another key element of organization culture. Nature of business in BHP impact employee health adversely, 2|P a g e
there is continuous identification and recording of different diseases, to reduce its impact through technology. It includes both physical and mental health welfare. To overcome this issue, resilience program, centralized resource, mental health toolkit and employee assistance program is being launched to help all employees through Australia and Asia. There is goal to achieve gender equality in workforce by 2025(Sanderson, 2018). To improve women participation, company has included flexible work timings, encourage diversity and inclusion by supply chain partners.Different awareness campaigns are being organized at different BHP location to increase awareness and acceptance towards LGBT community. People It is crucial to hire right people, company does not focus on hiring best people rather it focus on the one who fit the culture and organizational needs. It has an in-house recruitment and selection team. Recommendation Enhancing employee engagement It is advised to provide more face to face workshops, training to global workforce and general managers. Focus on developing employee capabilities, understanding role and work process to enhance employee engagement. Enhancing employee safety control Company must acknowledge its productivity challenges and implement workplace relation framework. It aims to optimize without focusing on volume or cost. Need for giving a broader focus on capital projects and skills(Stevens, 2018). 3|P a g e
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