JetBlue Airways: Starting from Scratch In 1999, a group of experienced individuals in the airline industry came together to start a brand new company, JetBlue Airways. JetBlue decided that its strategy was going to be very similar to Southwest Airlines (low cost airline), but focus more on technology by providing the customer with a better experience and ensure more productivity from the aircraft. The company decided that its home base was going to be JFK, with a potential of 2.5 million passengers
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agricultural fleet; present day the company services commercial flights in over 350 destinations on 6 continents. The company’s merger with Northwest in 2008 created an international airline with locations in every region of the world. In 2009, Delta celebrated 80 years of passenger service and became the only airline to offer nonstop flights between Los Angeles and Sydney, Australia. Since 2001, Delta has had many financial difficulties. The negative effects of the September 11th terrorist attacks
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job satisfaction to motivator factors, such as responsibility and challenge associated with job content. It liknks job dissatisfaction to hygiene factors such as py and working conditions associated with job context. * 4 satisfiers( organizational policies, quality of supervision, working conditions, base wage or salary, relationships with peers and subordinates.) 4 disatisfiers (Achievement, recognition, work itself, responsibility). – job enrichment * Maslows theory: Higher order
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Institutional Affiliation Date Job Description Ideally, my dream job is being an airline manager of one of the most highly rated airlines in the world such as the Delta Airlines. An airline manager is basically responsible for carrying out discussions with the Airline personnel who often oversees design certification, test and turn up, installation, maintenance of airline equipments, as well as other activities involved in the company’s maintenance department. The manager assts
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TRANSFORMATIONAL VERSUS TRANSACTIONAL LEADERSHIP LDR550Z-Leadership and Team Development-Fall 2011 Abstract This research paper addresses various aspects of transformational and transactional leadership styles. It mainly presents a comparative overview of these leadership styles. Further, it talks about an example of each transformational and transactional leadership in real-world. This leads to mentioning various applications that each leadership style finds in today’s business. Analysis
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AUTHOR: SIMON SINEK Year of Publication: 2009 Title: START WITH WHY – HOW GREAT LEADERS INSPIRE EVERYONE TO TAKE ACTION Publisher PENGUIN GROUP (USA) INC. Place of Publication: NEW YORK, NEW YORK. USA “Start with Why - How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action” by Simon Sinek Sinek, S. (2009). Start with why: How great leaders inspire everyone to take action. Penguin. Word count : 1,566 Executive Summary of paper: This report provides an analysis of the key
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TEACHING NOTE ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE AND CHANGE By Romuald Stone, DBA The construct of organizational culture has raised considerable interest of both academics and practitioners in the field of change management. Organizational culture is “derived from the anthropological concept of culture that attempts to explain why people in societies believe and behave as they do.” It has “become a common way of thinking about and describing an organization’s internal world—a way of differentiating
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will be able to compete with other similar markets. Once the market is decided such as the airline industry, then the business has to decide how it will perform better than the competition and what item(s) it will bring to the market in order to be assorted from the competition. JetBlue Airways founding father, David Neeleman wanted to start an airline “that would combine the low fares of a discount airline carrier with the comforts of a small cozy den in people’s homes” (Rovenpor & Michel, 2009)
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primary route to achieving superior shareholder value.2 Consider, for example, Southwest Airlines’ market-driven strategy that has achieved a strong market position for the U.S. domestic carrier. The airline’s growth and financial performance are impressive. Although Southwest is the fourth largest U.S. airline, its market capitalization is greater than the total capitalization of AMR (American Airlines), Delta Airlines, and UAL Corp. Southwest’s revenues will approach $7.5 billion in 2002, compared
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JEFFREY PFEFFER pays an average C average of $21.^2hourly wage of $18.07. ^^^^ second pays an an hour. Assuming that other directemployment costs, such as benefits, are the same for the two groups, which group has the higher labor eosts^ • • • • An airline is seeking to compete in the low-cost, low-frills segment of the U.S. market where, for obvious reasons, labor productivity and efficiency are crucial for competitive success. The company pays virtually no one on the basis of individual merit or performance
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