SOUTHWEST AIRLINE IN 2010: CULTURE‚ VALUES AND OPERATING PRACTICES CASE QUESTIONS: 1. Is there anything that you find particularly impressive about Southwest Airlines? Transported more passengers from U.S airports to U.S destinations than any other airline Consistently profitable- had reported a profit every year since 1972 Became a major competitive force in domestic segment 2. What grade would you give Southwest management for the job it has done in crafting the company’s strategy
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Case 07-2: Western Aluminum Introduction Western Aluminum‚ INC expanded its operations through the acquisition of Smelter. By the end of 2007‚ Smelter is projected to produce 30% of Western Aluminum’s inventory. Western Aluminum evaluated its current practices in comparison to Smelters current FIFO Inventory management system and issued a proposal to change their inventory valuation method from LIFO to FIFO. Factors to Consider Western Aluminum addressed multiple topics to validate their
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Chase Rushing Darryl Pulliam 9/19/2012 Case Study #2 Human Resources 1. Brenda was called an exceptional employee before the company underwent changes. The changes required more telecommuting and positional autonomy in Brenda’s position. The new responsibilities were added to her job description without any discussion of the expectations by her superiors. Brenda’s manager did not evaluate her fairly due to the fact the he did not previously determine her requirements‚ so that she could
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Staffing Report One Table of Contents 1. Forecast of Labor 2. Markov Analysis Information 3. Demographic Categories 4. Promotion Practices 5. Organizational Memo Forecast of Labor: MGT Consulting gathered information from the previous year (2010) and used a Markov analysis to generate a plan of action for the employment needs for Tanglewood in 2011. The Washington market is very stable for Tanglewood and we decided that the current workforce will be sufficient for the 2011 forecast
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permitted to work next to each other. Both employees and the Union representing them filed charges of discrimination. The EEOC determined that there was reasonable cause of discrimination; violating Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The case ended up in the federal district court. The court granted motion for summary judgment. ISSUE: Does this rule violate Title VII? DECISION: No. The court reversed and remanded their decision. REASONING: The court did not find that there
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RELEVANCE OF ICT TO HUMAN DEVELOPMENT CHAPTER ONE 1.1 INTRODUCTION AND DEFINITION OF ICT The acronym ICT represents information and communications technology. ICT is a composite term made up of three important concepts which are information‚ communications and technology. To understand ICT‚ one must understand the three concepts. Information can simply be defined as data that has been processed‚ that aids decision making. It can also
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1. Most research suggests we are not very good at detecting lying‚ and we think we’re much better than we are. Do you believe FACS would improve your ability to detect lying in others? When we look at every day at people in businesses or school or public institutions we tend to judge them unknowingly and form a pattern to detect of action that will happen with their behavior. We continuously try and evaluate people to see if they are saying the truth or trying to lie and bluff to us. Some professions
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BMW: The 7 Series 1. What are the causes and consequences of BMW’s quality problems with newly launched products? What should be done to improve “launch quality”? The causes and consequences of BMW’s quality problems with newly launched products were plentiful and apparent all throughout the case study. For instance‚ BMW does not use pre-production tools during prototyping. This significantly lowers their opportunity to discover and fix quality problems earlier in the production process. Secondly
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commercial and residential properties‚ decided to build a restaurant in the Coconut Plantation Resort. The management‚ however‚ was faced with determining what the most appropriate type of restaurant they should develop for the resort should be. The case study gives some information about what already existed on the island before hand‚ including markets‚ other restaurants‚ hotels‚ condominiums‚ etc. along with what they all have to offer. Of all the information given‚ details about the current restaurants
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OPIM 5894 ADVANCED PROJECT MANAGEMENT VERTEX PHARMACEUTICALS CASE Team 2 April 5‚ 2012 http://users.business.uconn.edu/snair/opim5894.html Team 2 - Vertex Pharmaceuticals case 2 Issues Raised Drug development issues – selecting a portfolio of products In-house versus Licensing issues Types of risks – Target risk‚ Mechanism risk‚ Molecule risk‚ Market risk Real options analysis Team 2 - Vertex Pharmaceuticals case 3 Which of the 4 project portfolio options currently facing Vertex
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