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Facing the Lay-Offs: an Approach to the Jet Airways India Case
MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY BUSINESS SCHOOL

HRM4402: INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

MODULE LEADER: RANI THANACOODY

FACING THE LAY-OFFS: AN APPROACH TO THE JET AIRWAYS INDIA CASE

STUDENT NAME: LUIS TOBO

MODULE: HRM 4402

WORD COUNT: 2730

DUE DATE: 29 MAYO 2012

Table of Contents INTRODUCTION KEY WORDS 1 COMPANY BACKGROUND 1 CASE STUDY DESCRIPTION 2 MAIN BODY INTERVENTIONS 3 MOTIVATING EMPLOYEES AND RETAINING TALENT 3 RIGTH COMUNICATION AND CORPORATIVE IMAGE 4 HIRING EFFECTIVELY 6 CONCLUTION 7 REFERENCES 9

FACING THE LAY-OFFS: AN APPROACH TO THE JET AIRWAYS INDIA CASE.

INTRODUCTION

KEY WORDS:
Downsizing: reduction of personal within a company or corporation for economic condition or change or transition.
Recruitment and Hiring: the process of selecting employees taking into account the company’s necessity.
Compensation: the salary and benefits that employees get for their effort and job.
Motivation: the practices that leaders and manager apply in order to encourage the employees and improve their performance within a company.
Communication and Retain talent: the way the company informs the employees any situation or issues, in order to keep the stability the company and retain the employees whom are high qualify.

BACKGROUND
Jet Airways is successful airline situated in India, which started its commercial operations on 5 May 1993 starting with local operations and after a quick growth decided to go abroad and open new international destine from Chennai to Colombo in March 2004. The company was created by Neresh Goyal who was athe owner of a private jet corporation and set up jet airways airline as a scheduled airline by the Indian law, in order to compete with the monopoly of the airlines in its country Indian Airlines by giving attractive oferts and low price marketing strategy. Its head office is located in Mombay where they command all the operations around



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