The first leadership challenge in the tourism industry in Australia has been the inability to recruit the right kind of workers and to retain those that have been hired (high employee turnover). Staff has had constant issues with management regarding its approach to recruitment and to leadership when ruling over these employees (Christensen, 2001). Most of the time, the employees have complained of having to […]

David Jones Limited (DJS) is an Australian retailer tracing its origins back to 1838 when it first opened in Sydney to sell “the best and most exclusive goods” (DJS, 31 Oct. 2009). It has since expanded to become a national retail chain comprising of nearly 40 premium department stores. The subject of this analysis is a strategic business unit (SBU) that is playing an increasingly […]

Numerous studies have been contacted on the Rabbit in Australia (Parer,I.(1977),Twigg, E.L., Lowe, J.T., Wheeler, G.A., Gray, S.G., Martin, R.G. & Barker,W.(1998), Wheeler,H.S. &King,R.D. (1985),  Rolls,E.C. (1969)), covering issues such as it’s population ecology, dispersal, survival and the efficiencies of the various control methods that have been used up to date. In the early stages of the rabbit plague, fences were erected to prevent dispersal […]

Australia has been characterized by a varying trend in its initial public offerings between the years 2003-2007.   There has been continued initial under-pricing in the daily capital market and high under performance of the initial public offers. Broadly, Australian IPO’s have greatly been influenced by the government activities with its intention to promote public policy. Through out the time, the government has been in strict […]