Slide 1

You are an HR Manager who is employed at the Altona manufacturing plant of Toyota Australia, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Toyota Motor Corporation. Your organization has decided to relocate 2017 a manager from its Melbourne plant to a sister plant in the United States of America. You are asked to write a background briefing report for this manager outlining the employment relations and human resource management issues that will
impact on the working life of this manager in the United States of America (40 marks).

Word Length: 2500-3000 words

Please note that information that is relevant to this report will be posted on the course website.

Slide 2

Why is this question being asked?

President Trump

How will the presidency of Donald Trump impact on business and the economy and therefore HR matters in the United States?

Slide 3

What is it like to work in the car industry in Australia and more particularly in the United States at the present time?

The essay was country-specific; the report is industry specific. No tourism and limited cultural matters please because these were discussed in the essay.

You must discuss the human resource management and employment relations issues that will impact the working life of this manager in the car industry in the United States.

As a point of comparison, you can discuss briefly what it is like to work in the car industry in Australia at the present time.

Slide 4

Make full use of the material on the Course Moodle website

Make full use of your classes and/or the discussion forums on the Course Moodle website

Slide 5

Evidence & argument

Above all answer the question!