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delivering good service, such as the Time 2008 Friendliest Airline award, and Forbes 2008 award for being the most reliable US air...
which bills itself as no-frills, but with frequent flights to various locations. SWA earned its fame for being a "fun" airline and...
experiencing the economic downturns like other businesses are these days, its still considered a company worth working for, and on...
In ten pages this paper discusses the Southwest U.S. in a consideration of Spanish land grants and the controversy involving manag...
to a destination (though there may be two or three changes in the meantime) rather than to a major city "hub," which then branches...
a positive impact in terms of supporting or even creating a competitive advantage (Huczynski and Buchanan, 2007). There is a gre...
passengers have to queue. If this is not how quarter of those who failed to gain the earliest boarding group card are likely to be...
the appropriate technology requires planning and proper implementation of the technology (Spafford, 2003). Lacking either of these...
paper, well attempt to answer these questions by focusing on other companies. The two weve selected are Southwest Airlines and Toy...
has to do with your TPS Writers opinion. You should use your own opinion. For example, you might not believe in Maslows or Vrooms...
nuts and drinks instead) and even a change in clothing. Rather than uniforms, SWA attendants and pilots dress casually, in polo sh...
fuel surcharges and look for ways increasing income, such as charging for checked luggage. Southwest are managing this financial r...
the air for a much greater proportion of the time compared to its competitors. This also helps Southwest airlines retain a positio...
a performance management system that assesses processes and efficiency enroute to arriving at the bottom line. Measuring Performan...
need to have a great deal of specific knowledge (Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2007). Some pilots are recruited from the military fo...
a solution; Chuck Thomas is Southwests director of financial analysis. They found that there was no system to use to book cargo. ...
for individuals backgrounds, abilities or even commitment to the company. At present there has been one meeting of most of the gr...
fly, thereby saving time and energy they would have to expend to drive for three or four hours (Robinson, 2000). Organizational a...
genius; keeping them, however, is often a much more difficult equation. "We market ourselves based on the personality and spirit ...
37th consecutive year of profitability (Southwest Airlines, Fact Sheet, 2010). Meanwhile, other airlines are struggling. Net incom...
habitat or region, but moves in and takes over, crowding out indigenous plants and often changing the entire character of the habi...
with a variety of governmental rules and regulations. In the United States, for example, airline companies operate under the auspi...
relations school of management, where motivation is directly related to the quality of the employment relationship. Furthermore, t...
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 ...
things through the Southwest Way: A warrior spirit, a servants heart and a fun-LUVing attitude (LUV is the stock symbol under whic...
the U.S. Department of Transportation gave a name to the phenomenon - the Southwest Effect (Southwest, 2003). It refers to the con...
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...
move forward it is necessary to look at the company and its position. A useful approach is the resource based view (RBV). With...