of Cathay Pacific Airlines General Environment Cathay Pacific was established in 1946 and is now the largest airline company in Hong Kong. It operates both passenger services and cargo services and operates in more than 30 countries throughout Asia, the Pacific, the Middle East, Africa, Europe and North America to more than 80 destinations. From Hong Kong, where its headquarter is based, Cathay operates 36 of their destinations in the Asia-Pacific region. Therefore the general environment in especially
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| |Cathay Pacific | Memo To: Edward Nicol, Director of IM From: Anthony Yeung, General Manager of IM CC: Jakob Iverson Date: 2/05/2003 Re: Cathay Pacific Outsourcing Process Edward, Once again, welcome back to Cathay Pacific! I thought I would take time to articulate the current state of Cathay’s outsourcing
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passenger transfer service, for Virgin Atlantic Airways Limited. The strategic analysis contains investigation of certain key business areas of Virgin Atlantic, such as: defining whom the Virgin Atlantic customer is; understanding of the external environment issues of the airline industry; competitor analysis, and analysis of the Human Resources within the organization. Through the analysis of Virgin Atlantic Airways Limited, some issues for the company were uncovered. Especially two main issues should
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this every changing, complex, dynamic environment is at the forefront of quality managerial practices. Good management has demonstrated itself more important than ever, with the peak Global Financial crisis in 2008/2009 proving that the historical theory’s and innovations in managerial practices are absolutely paramount to thriving economic prosperity. It is through the functions, approaches included in the literature of Henri Fayol’s 1949 English translated General and Industrial Management, Henry Mintzberg’s
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Content Introduction 3 What is Collective bargaining? 3 Research Objectives 3 Literature Review 4 Social Problems brought by strikes 7 Short term social problems 7 1. Affect companies’ normal daily operation 7 2. Reduce competitiveness of certain industry 8 Long term social problems 9 1. Reduce investors’ confidence 9 2. Increase turnover rate 10 Recommendations for Large Enterprises and SMEs 11 For Large Enterprises 11 1. Performance appraisal- Graphic rating scale 12
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School of management | Singapore Airlines | Audit of Corporate Social Responsibility | | Team Greatbatch | 12/6/2012 | Maria Kristic Chaitanya Pavuluri Srutakirti Das Anthony Ilaqcua Mark Rutecki Contents Introduction 2 Environment 3 Engine Efficiency and Alternative Fuels 3 Operations and Infrastructure 5 Evaluating Environmental Initiatives 6 Harapan Rainforest Initiative 7 Social Activities: Philanthropic 8 Social Activities: Strategic……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………9
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Case Study Related to Business Malaysia Airlines (MAS)Facing Challenges in the New Millennium M. Sadiq Sohail, Ph. D• King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals College of Industrial Management Department of Management & Marketing P.O. Box 210, Dhahran-31261 Saudi Arabia E- mail: ssohail@kfupm.edu.sa sadiqsohail@hotmail.com Tel: + 966 3 8601764 Fax: + 9663 8602544 • 1. Formerly at Monash University Malaysia. The author is thankful to Ms. Marianne Visvalingam and Ridhi Jain, both undergraduate
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inflight audio and video services In this report, four significant operations aspects of Singapore Airlines will be discussed. These cover economic environment and 4Vs, five performance objectives, lean and agile, and, lastly, corporate social responsibility. 2 2.0 Singapore Airlines: Economic Environment and 4Vs 2.1 Analysis of the Economic Environment Impacts on the Airline Industry The International Air Transport Association (IATA, 2011a) forecast $4 billion profit for airline
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economic environment and open equal opportunities for all air carriers Excessive capacity, fuel cost, foreign currency exposure and threat of new entrants. Changes in customer taste and destinations, power of customers and growth of airlines alliances. Heavy investments in railways and telecommunication tools Consumer protection and passenger rights Growing percentage of global emission Airport slots allocations Similarity of resources and services such as Singapore Airlines and Cathay Pacific Improving
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Porter’s Five Force Model Industry competitors - Local competitors are Air Asia, Firefly, etc - International competitors- Singapore airlines, Garuda, Cathay Pacific, Thai International Airways - Other Low cost Airlines- Compass, Tiger Airways, Cebu Pacific, Jetstar Asia Airways, Impulse, Virgin blue Airlines. The number of competitors is very high and with the emergence of low cost carrier and deregulation the internal competition has increased and the only reason that
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