... In addition this essay will also critically evaluate the competing demands being confronted by the human resource manager and discuss how these issues need to be reconciled in the areas of Industrial relations legislations such as Work choice, Australian workplace agreements, Enterprise bargaining agreements, Unfair dismissal legislation, Anti Discrimination legislation and Equal Employment Opportunities and Affirmative Action legislation as well as Occupational Health and Safety legislations. This paragraph will critically evaluate and discuss how Kevin Brown (Executive General Manager: Human Resources) for the Qantas group seeks to reconcile how the Work Choices Act 2005 (Cth) AWA 1996 (Cth) EBA 1991 (Cth) legislations can impact upon day to day operations, cost and productivity targets and also the objectives of the company in general. At Qantas the H.R manager has proposed a drastic change of adopting a dual approach (hard and soft HRM) by signaling that the management would take advantage of new flexibilities ...

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