Unit 3 – Resourcing Case study – AIRBUS |

Airbus, a European leader in aeronautic manufacturing, has decided to close three of its ten sites situated in Toulouse and its suburb. Following this, employees of the closing factories will have to move to other plants if possible. But this is not an easy thing to do, indeed, often people can disagree or being reluctant in moving because of different causes such as personal matters like : where they live, the fact that their children are already going to a certain school, that if they don’t move out, the travel time from their home to their workplace could be costly and be very long, and so on. In order to encourage and promote mobility within Airbus, we will highlight different solutions.

In order to promote mobility within Airbus, the company need to focus on how these closures will affect the employees concerned.
Indeed, most of the staff will have to redeploy to another sites and so many will have to review the way they will go to work, if their living location are still adequate, if they need to move out to another place, if they will have to change their means of transport in order to take less time as possible and to save money.
In order to facilitate the private and professional life of the staff, the company will need to firstly percentage the different existing opportunities concerning the seven other plants. Detailed informations mails, letters and tracts presenting the possible need to be given/sent presenting the sites, the available jobs in each, the managing staff, the speciality of each and their location. Those letter need to go with explanations concerning the reasons why Airbus has decided to close those three sites, why they did not have any other solutions and what will be the advantages. This last part is really important because employees can easily feel