There are several pressures currently affecting large organizations in Australia, they are changing markets, technological innovation, Total Quality Management, changes to the nature of industrial relations (where wages and working conditions can be negotiated with staff), flatter organisational structures, HR perspective and environmental issues. ... Globalisation has been underway for a few decades now, but the 1980's saw the biggest set of changes in Australia's history. Australia is a country where agriculture forms over 60% of export earnings in a world where agriculture account...

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There are several pressures currently affecting large organizations in Australia, they are changing markets, technological innovation, Total Quality Management, changes to the nature of industrial relations (where wages and working conditions can be negotiated with staff), flatter organisational structures, HR perspective and environmental issues. ... Globalisation has been underway for a few decades now, but the 1980's saw the biggest set of changes in Australia's history. Australia is a country where agriculture forms over 60% of export earnings in a world where agriculture account...

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Take Australia for example. ... A look into its history can explain why this is so, in the 18th century to get rid of their prisoners the Britons sent to the deserted island as captives they were know to endure hardship thus making them physical strong and agile. ...

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Through a strong sense of community and history/tradition, ignorance of the global force, idealised notions of "normalcy", links to "the house" and "the land" and family values, the Kerrigan family were able to retain their "local" ideals, and thus retreat from the global. The strong Australian spirit of mateship and barracking for the underdog, come across as major themes, as the Kerrigans and their neighbours come together unwilling to accept the changes and vacate their properties (and as such are resisting global change). ... A quality that cannot overlooked of the Kerrigan family, is t...

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Kevin Rudd, a former Prime Minister of Australia and current Member of Parliament argued that the best part about globalization is that it lifts economic growth rates and living standards around much, though not all, of the developing world, and in developed countries as well. ... First, globalization removes borders drawn by history, ethnicity, religion and language when different people with different cultures migrate, bringing their own cultures into the new country. ... When nations decide to disregard boundaries drawn by history, culture, language, and religion, there will not be unnecess...

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The UN has sponsored a Global Compact to establish and promote a shared set of core values in the areas of labour standards, human rights and environmental practices between the UN and the business community The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) develops economic and social policy for its 29 members, which include the countries of North America, Western Europe (including Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland) and Japan, Korea, Australia and New Zealand. ...

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