International Journal of Business and Management; Vol. 8, No. 24; 2013 ISSN 1833-3850 E-ISSN 1833-8119 Published by Canadian Center of Science and Education Transactional and Transformational Leadership: A Comparative Study of the Difference between Tony Fernandes (Airasia) and Idris Jala (Malaysia Airlines) Leadership Styles from 2005-2009 Arif Kamisan, P1 & Brian E. M. King1 1 School of Hotel and Tourism Management, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China Correspondence: Arif Kamisan, P
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20th December 1993 and started their operations on 18th November 1996. Unfortunately, the company’s performance not doing very well for few years until it was 2nd December 2001, the day that this airline taken over by Tony Fernandes, the CEO of Air Asia Group. Since then, Tony Fernandes performance was astonishing, he brought the airline back to life, and they even start making profits since year 2002 and launched their airline hubs in that particular year too. They even beat down their competitor
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International Journal of Business and Management; Vol. 8, No. 24; 2013 ISSN 1833-3850 E-ISSN 1833-8119 Published by Canadian Center of Science and Education Transactional and Transformational Leadership: A Comparative Study of the Difference between Tony Fernandes (Airasia) and Idris Jala (Malaysia Airlines) Leadership Styles from 2005-2009 Arif Kamisan, P1 & Brian E. M. King1 1 School of Hotel and Tourism Management, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China Correspondence: Arif Kamisan
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Tony Fernandes founded Tune Air Sdn Bhd in 2001, with a vision to make air travel more affordable to Malaysians. With that in mind, Tony and his three partners bought over AirAsia from its owner DRB-Hicom. Tune Air's initial project was to remodel AirAsia into a low fare no frills carrier after successful low fare airlines such as U.S.-based Southwest Airlines and Dublin-based Ryanair and create a new aviation product in Malaysia . AUTOCRATIC only one person has the authority over the followers
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Business Leadership EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Steven Paul "Steve" Jobs, the man who saved a company that was literally a fiscal quarter away from bankruptcy and proceeded to grow it into the largest company in the world by market capital the company ‘The Apple’. Steve Jobs was an American businessman, designer and inventor. He is best known as the co-founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of Apple Inc. Through Apple, he was widely recognized as a charismatic pioneer of the personal computer revolution
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TABLE OF CONTENTS Topic Page No 1. INTRODUCTION 2 2. OBJECTIVES 2 3. LEADERSHIP STYLE 2 1. Vision and Judgment 2 2. Courage and Determination 3 3. Symbiosis, Charisma and Integrity 3 4. ORGANIZATIONAL STRATEGY 3 1. Safety First 3 2. High Aircraft Utilization 4 3. Low Cost 4 4.
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1.0 Introduction AirAsia originally was founded by government and on 2 December 2001 was bought by Tony Fernandes. AirAsia was established in year 1993. AirAsia has travel around the earth and ascend to become the world’s best in year 2001. AirAsia continues to spread out the way for low-cost aviation through the innovation, efficient and passionate approach to business with a route a network that extent through over 20 countries. There are some companies which link with AirAsia such as AirAsia
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1.0 Introduction AirAsia originally was founded by government and on 2 December 2001 was bought by Tony Fernandes. AirAsia was established in year 1993. AirAsia has travel around the earth and ascend to become the world’s best in year 2001. AirAsia continues to spread out the way for low-cost aviation through the innovation, efficient and passionate approach to business with a route a network that extent through over 20 countries. There are some companies which link with AirAsia such as AirAsia
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Leadership development refers to any activity that boosts the excellence of leadership within an individual. This activity has focused on developing the abilities and attitudes of individuals. Dissimilar personal traits and characteristics can help or impede a person's leadership effectiveness and require courteous for developing leadership competencies. Some assumed that a leader could act authentically through responsibility, reactions to uncertainty, and creativity. Others believed that authentic
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AirAsia has been a long-standing competitor in the airline industry. Bought over by Tony Fernandez just as it was about to go bankrupt, he managed to turn the structure of the company around and made it profitable. From a regular full-cost airline, it was now a budget airline. Providing its main service of transport, with little importance paid to luxuries and more focus was put into perfecting customer service and time for money. As more budget airlines such as Jetstar Singapore and Tiger Airways
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