Form into groups of four to six. Assume that you are the HR consulting team for a large Australian bank with a bureaucratic, authoritarian culture and a highly unionised workforce. In response to competitive pressures, the bank aims to become the fastest-growing, most profitable bank in the Asia-Pacific region. A key to this is for it to become a learning organisation.

(a) Identify and discuss the implications of the new thrust for:

- change management

- corporate culture

- recruitment and selection

- training and development

- remuneration and benefits

- industrial relations.

(b) Prepare a 10-minute PowerPoint presentation for the board of directors on how it can introduce change successfully, any likely obstacles to change and how it can overcome them.