1 Aristocrat Aristocrat is one of the largest gaming companies and gaming providers.

Activity of the company is dedicated to the expanding of the technology and various operations to provide people all around the world with an opportunity to play games of high quality. Statistics of the company demonstrate that its future is secure and very promising as for all 50 years of existence of the company; it was maintaining the world class standards through widening of limitations of technology and introduction of innovation. Human Resource Department of the company looks for people who would support vision of the company and would posses enough skills to promote innovation and technologies. Such approach has helped the Human Resource Department hire over 2000 employees all over the world and at the same time remain the companys leadership and reputation of a high quality supplier of technology and services. Staff, employed by the Human Resource Department plays a very important role in the life of the company and it has already helped to establish good reputation and now continues supporting it. It is not a secret that the Human Resource Department of Aristocrat pays a lot of attention to the development of the employees, developing their sense of responsibility for their work, promoting quality of the brand. Thoroughly selected members of the team of the company allowed introducing a wide range of games to find better solutions. The most important areas of work, which involve the best and the most qualified personnel are dealing with services, systems, electronic tables, and ancillary equipment. Activity of the Human Resource Department of the company is in separated from the companys vision which states that Aristocrat aims to become the leading provider of

2 gaming solutions and such qualities as focus, imagination, and creativity play very important roles in the process of achievement of the vision, so they are especially evaluated by the Human Resource Department (Aristocrat - Americas). Offering job to professionals in various areas, the Human Resource Department provides them with an opportunity to deal with services and systems of various venues of entertainment all over the world. All the employees with no exception have an opportunity to build a career and have fast professional growth in the case if they do their best to promote innovation and technologies, developed by the company. However, Human Resource Department chooses only truly unique professionals to be employed. The Department is especially interested in intelligent and innovative professionals, who are able to build some kind of new culture on the basis of their imagination, creativity and focus. Human Resource Department organized work of the employees in teams, making this mode of work a core one. The reason is that working together the employees are encouraged to support each other, become more inspired, inspire co-workers and together new ideas are developed much more effective than in the cases when employees work individually. Human Resource Department provides various trainings and rewards to encourage the employees follow mission of the company and create new solutions for the gaming world. Moreover, there is a strong system of values in the company which is obligatory to be respected in order t promote corporate culture. These values involve e excellent, cooperation, respect to integrity of people and communities. Selecting employees and managing their work, the Human Resource Department promotes research, welcomes design, increase of sells, improvement of service and applies

3 various techniques to meet needs and interests of the employees, providing benefits to those who demonstrate especially thorough work. Regardless of the fact whether some employees have outstanding results or not, they receive rewards and acknowledgment because recognition of efforts is one of the main principles established by the Human Resource Department. The company also provides numerous resources which help the employees to manage their career from the first day of work in the company. The staff receives benefits from such management, which also provides mentoring and training programs; each of the employees is also provided with assistance when it comes to further education and training. Human Resource Department of the company does not put any limits on the career development of the employees and profession is encouraged. The Department of Aristocrat promotes numerous opportunities, trying to stretch the expertise of the employees, create new career options in various divisions of the business (Aristocrat Careers). What is important about work of Human Resource Department that it provides the employees with constant communication with leadership team of Aristocrat. This team has been created not only to provide effective management, but also to support the staff. The leadership team members are:
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Jamie Odell Chief Executive Officer; Toni Korsanos Chief Financial Officer and Company Secretary; Trevor Croker Managing Director in Australia and New Zealand; Warren Jowett Managing Director in Japan and Asia Pacific; Atul Bali President of Aristocrat Americas; Jason Walbridge Chief Supply Officer; Rich Schneider Chief Product Officer; Julius Patta Chief Technology Officer;

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Mark Dunn Executive Vice President & General Counsel;

Gayle Philpotts Global Human Resources Director (Executive Leadership Team). Gayle Philpotts is responsible for development of effective human resource strategies, which involve the process of recruitment of the right employees, providing the existing staff with motivation and engagement and keeping the staff retained. For the 50 years of existence of the company various approaches were implemented by the Human Resource Department. However, each time the results of the implementation were monitored, recorded and analyzed. Such strategy allowed the human resource management of the company to develop a unique strategy to manage the staff to gain the greatest benefit and at the same time meet needs and requirements of the employees. It is important to pay attention to the fact that approaches which are implemented by the Human Resource Department are being changed all the time. The reason is not that they are poorly developed or do not work, but the reason is that management of the company realized the need to meet conditions of the market which are changing quickly. The process of globalization impacted the strategies of the department greatly, making it to develop new approaches to selection of the employees - the criteria became stricter and the requirements became more demanding (Strategic issues in human resource management; Shaper, 2004). Thus, it is possible to conclude that 50 years of excellent work of the company are the best factors to prove that Human Resource Department does an excellent job, modifying its strategies all the time in attempts to meet requirements of the market, promote extension of the company, and of course, meet requirements and needs of the customers and of the employees. The process of improvement of work of Human Resource managers continues, bringing the company and the employees greater and greater opportunities for business and personal development.

5 References Aristocrat - Americas, viewed 16 September, 2012, <http://www.aristocrat.com.au/company/Pages/default.aspx>. Aristocrat Careers, viewed 16 September, 2012, < https://www.aristocrat.jobs/>. Executive Leadership Team, viewed 16 September, 2012, <http://www.aristocrat.com.au/company/about/Pages/ExecuitveLeadershipTeam.aspx>. Strategic issues in human resource management, viewed 16 September, 2012, <http://www.younghrmanager.com/strategic-issues-in-human-resource-management>. Shaper, Niclas, 2004, Theoretical Substantiation of Human Resources Management from the Perspective of Work and Organizational Psychology, Management Review, 15.2