Fiji Airways is a well-known brand in the aerospace industry but the company still struggles with identifying, attracting, and retaining its skilled workers. Manytalented people are leaving for other occupations because of the challenges in theaerospace industry. In light of high employee turnover problem, Fiji Airways hasput in place various strategies to proactively deal with the potential employeeshortage. Firstly, they have divided work groups into segments and use predictivemodels to forecast business trends and workforce demographics. The HRdepartment uses the data to determine where they can promote, transfer, or recruitto fill needed positions. Fiji Airways have also started some partnerships withtertiary education providers such as the USP to better prepare their future employees.
Fiji Airways has embarked on promotions and transfers of employees within thecompany to mitigate its potential labour shortage. Discuss the advantages offilling positions with current employees rather than recruiting from externalsources. Illustrate your discussions with relevant examples.