This study aims at discussing an important issue of human resource management, with the example of a recent incident that occurred in Virgin Australia Airline’s flight. Discrimination on the basis of gender is a major issue, which has been critically discussed in most of the countries, and necessary steps have also been taken to eradicate discrimination completely. Virgin Australia Airline introduced a new policy for their airlines that the male passengers cannot sit beside any unaccompanied minor passenger, while a woman can. Though many parents whose children had to travel alone welcomed this initiative, but morally this policy was wrong and illegal. Moreover, even women can harm an unaccompanied child, if she wants to do so. Specifically tagging the males as dangerous and harmful was something not expected from a company of such stature. It can be considered a HR issue because the male employees of Virgin Airlines can feel insecure and depressed due to such decisions of the company.

The following study analyses the relative concept of leadership and the likely traits of a successful leader. Moreover, a comparative analysis of the different leader-centric and group-centric approaches have been discussed in detail. The argument stated in favour of both the approaches has been used to determine the conclusive result of the analysis done.

This report is prepared for RACQ, an Australian company. The target audiences to whom the report will address to are the senior management team of the company. This means that the target audiences have complete knowledge regarding the internal organizational culture of the company. The issue that has been highlighted mainly is related to challenges that the employees are facing sue to an unsustainable organizational culture. The solution to this issue would be development of employee engagement plans. In this context, the strategic human resource development (SHRD) concepts have been utilized. Based on the strategic human resource development theories, training and development would be the most suitable way to solve human resource management issues. This would also help in complete employee engagement. Various training programs at different levels in the organization have been recommended and detailed implementation plan has been suggested for the senior management to understand the recommendations and its usage easily. Also the goal-oriented approach has been suggested for evaluating the after effects of the training programs.

Aviation Industry offers its customers the enjoyable and comfortable way to travel, so the labor force in this industry plays a very important role. It has been seen that the workforce in the aviation industry have suffered several issues due to economic fluctuations, but it is the presence of strong labor union framework in the airline segment that has prevented the employees from being exploited in the hands of the airline companies and their management. In this study we have analyzed the labor relations in the aviation environment and the responsibility that the labor unions undertake to safeguard the interest of its members and the non-members. A secondary research was conducted and it was found that the US labor union is the strongest and most sustainable in the global aviation industry. Due to this reason the employees working in this industry feel protected and the management also can control and monitor the workforce easily because they can seek assistance from the labor union to implement strategies for the profitability of the company and for the betterment of the workforce too.

The primary objective of change management is to maximize the benefits of the organization and eliminate the barriers. The following study has highlighted the change management strategy adopted by Blue Marina and the necessary internal and external drivers required for the process. Necessary recommendations have been provided based on the Kirkpatrick’s four level change models.