achieve financial or strategic objectives is often blamed on a clash of cultures between combining entities (Marks, 2011). The purpose of this paper is to address the HR ramifications of the Southwest Airlines merger and the unique responsibility of the strategic and administrative functions of Human Resources. This paper will also provide an analytical approach to the Southwest merger by conducting a SWOT analysis, analyzing culture and policies, recommendations, recruitment methods, and the organization’s
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EWMBA 299 – Competitive Strategy Southwest Airlines Introduction The domestic US airline industry has been intensely competitive since it was deregulated in 1978. In a regulated environment, most of the cost increases were passed along to consumers under a fixed rate-of-return based pricing scheme. This allowed labor unions to acquire a lot of power and workers at the major incumbent carriers were overpaid. After deregulation, the incumbent carriers felt the most pain, and the floodgates had
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Southwest Airlines’ Motivational Profile PSY/320 Southwest Airlines’ Motivational Profile According to Merriam-Webster (2011), the definition of motivation is “a motivating force, stimulus, or influence” (p. 1). Based on Johmarshall Reeve’s Understanding Motivation and Emotion, this definition is widely customary by many psychologists, but what psychologists cannot agree on is what causes motivation. In fact, this topic has been on a rollercoaster ride over many
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EWMBA 299 – Competitive Strategy Southwest Airlines Introduction The domestic US airline industry has been intensely competitive since it was deregulated in 1978. In a regulated environment, most of the cost increases were passed along to consumers under a fixed rate-of-return based pricing scheme. This allowed labor unions to acquire a lot of power and workers at the major incumbent carriers were overpaid. After deregulation, the incumbent carriers felt the most pain, and the floodgates had
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Organizational Culture and Its Effect on Employees The organizational culture of a company can have a significant impact on the attitudes of employees. The culture of an organization is the foundation that sets the tone for all interactions with the company, including the day to day activities of its agent (the employee). The perceptions and attitudes of an employee are influenced by the tone set by the organization. It is this foundation upon which rests the success (or failure) of the company
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Running head: WEEK 5 Week 5 Ron Martinez University of Phoenix Week 5 Southwest Airlines is a company that has endured many changes through its more than 38 years in the airline industry through an understanding of what leadership and management is. What began as a small Texas airline has grown to become one of the largest airlines in America. Today, Southwest Airlines flies over 100 million passengers a year to 66 different cities all across the country, and they do it more than 3
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Southwest Airlines People Management People Strategy 26 Aug 2012 Abstract Southwest Airlines has been the most profitable airline in the United States for decades. It leads in customer satisfaction and for years led the rankings in on time performance. Many have identified the successful business practices that have allowed such remarkable success but Southwest's corporate culture has been identified as the secret sauce. This paper will discuss the company's overall people
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As we now know, Organizational Excellence is measured by success. The key to achieving excellence is knowing the science behind effectively managing the 3 main organizational aspects: structures and systems, cultures and relationships, and strategies. It is critical that all 3 aspects align to enhance the success of one another, but when it comes to prioritizing these aspects in order to achieve excellence, an organization should… …begin by developing a clear-cut STRATEGY for accomplishing its mission
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Keller Business School of Management HRM 594 Staffing Organizations Professor Burnell Carden August 24, 2013 Introduction The intent of this paper it to define critical concepts of strategic planning with Southwest Airlines (SWA) top management and how their organization pursued choices and different strategies to run the business by using superior performance employees that gave them a competitive advantage over their competitors. I will concentrate on the thirteen strategic
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and the impact of the changing family definitions in today’s world. Each of these three factors has an influence on the successful recruitment and retention of a diverse workforce. Southwest Airlines (Southwest) is an example of a national organization that demonstrates the impact of these three factors. The organizational status of each employee would be achieved through personal effort in an open class system versus the social class to which each employee belongs (Kottak & Kozaitis, 2003). Guaranteed
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