YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Annotated Bibliography for an Assessment of Southwest Airlines
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may have helped these three airlines, they have a new problem in that: "Now, management must reach out to rank-and-file workers, w...
paper recommends several strategies for the future, but the first recommendation is for change in Southwests mission statement. T...
Arthur Baird joined the pair - McMaster as a source of funding and a link to wealthy potential investors, Baird as aircraft mechan...
quality measures or controls"1. For companies operating in a competitive environment management control systems can be examined ...
being difficult for the entire airline industry. The International Air Transport Association projected in 2007 that the 2008 perfo...
move forward it is necessary to look at the company and its position. A useful approach is the resource based view (RBV). With...
Details a leadership development program to be put in place at Southwest Airlines. There are 10 sources listed in the bibliography...
been asked to discuss Southwest Airlines internal factors (strengths and weaknesses) and external factors (opportunities and stren...
income of $178 million and a net margin of 1.6% (2007 net income was $645 million, with a net margin of 6.5%) (Annual Report, 2009...
(Southwest Airlines Co., 2009a). Southwest acquired Morris Air in 1993. This gave Southwest an opening in the Pacific Northwest...
maintain perspective and balance and to have fun (Culture, 2010). Values shared. This particular question is a very person...
airline has faced some challenged, such as the fine in 2003 for failure to deal fairly with disabled customers. To assess the wa...
37th consecutive year of profitability (Southwest Airlines, Fact Sheet, 2010). Meanwhile, other airlines are struggling. Net incom...
trying to expand domestically, both through organic growth and acquisitions (Gilmer, 2010). SWA today is under the directi...
sale in which passengers can fly "for $39 to $149 one-way with 14-day advance purchase" (Southwest.com, 2005). Southwest is...
in finding leaders are exemplified in Mr. Weldons history with the company. He joined Johnson & Johnson in 1971 as a sales repres...
it enters new markets on the basis of customer request and careful cost and potential revenue analysis, but it still is listed as ...
worldwide as passengers expressed fear of flying as never before. Southwest suffered less than most in the short term. Alw...
reducing the cost of supply chain management (ICFAI, 2003). RFID technologies "use radio waves to automatically identify people o...
demand for the services may increase if they are demanded, but at the very least there is no economic pressure on consumers to red...
Southwest will need to alter policy in order to achieve the strategic position it wants and needs to occupy within its industry. ...
delivering good service, such as the Time 2008 Friendliest Airline award, and Forbes 2008 award for being the most reliable US air...
experiencing the economic downturns like other businesses are these days, its still considered a company worth working for, and on...
for the Dallas-based airlines. As a direct result, not only are his passengers happy to fly his airline, but his "passionate, ded...
(and still knows) how to keep their employees happy. Rather than focusing on customer service, SWAs motto is employee first. The b...
an airline which offered the lowest possible fares and would get people to their desired destinations. The idea was that if could ...
at employees or offer a tangible reward at the end of a given year (typically some kind of catalogue from which employees can choo...
out to the target audience is important, and SWA has relied on a variety of creative ways in which this is done. It advertises a g...
in the months following the 9/11 terrorist attacks, for example, people forsook air travel and focused on vacations and travel tha...
industry in technologies and practices that will conserve and protect natural resources. 2. Strategic Goals, Mission and Vision ...