Business Strategy – BAD 4013 – SUMMER 1999 Case Study Southwest Airlines I. Strategic Profile and Case Analysis Purpose The mission of Southwest Airlines is dedication to the highest quality of customer service delivered with a sense of warmth‚ friendliness‚ individual pride‚ and company spirit. Twenty-seven years ago‚ Rolling King‚ owner of floundering commuter airline‚ and Herb Kelleher‚ King’s lawyer‚ got together and decided to start a different kind of airline that would provide a short-haul
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Phil: Strategic HRM Presentation Topic: Southwest Airlines: A Case Study Linking Employee Needs Satisfaction and Organizational Capabilities to Competitive Advantage written by Roger Hallowell Reference: Human Resource Management‚ 1996‚ Vol. 35(4)‚ p. 513-534 Presented by: M. Shahnawaz Adil Dated: Tuesday‚ March 01‚ 2011 Course Facilitator: Mr. Ahsan Durrani Abstract (as written by Roger Hallowell): This article analyzes the sources of Southwest Airlines’ competitive advantage using an
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Mergers and acquisitions (abbreviated M&A) is an aspect of corporate strategy‚ corporate finance and management dealing with the buying‚ selling‚ dividing and combining of different companies and similar entities that can help an enterprise grow rapidly in its sector or location of origin‚ or a new field or new location‚ without creating a subsidiary‚ other child entity or using a joint venture. The distinction between a "merger" and an "acquisition" has become increasingly blurred in various
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group is that the acquisition will be based on what was determined as an “enterprise value” of Php52.5 billion. Enterprise value factors in preferred stocks‚ debt and cash reserves that are usually not captured by mere market capitalization. In this case‚ the package includes 1.5B in preferred shares that have five times more voting rights than common shares (now at 3.36B) but convertible at par to
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Comcast and AT&T: A Cable-Industry Merger The Cable Industry of the 1990s‚ and Comcast’s/AT&T’s Places Therein From 1990 to 2001‚ the cable industry was compelled to almost completely restructure; buffeted by forces both internal and external‚ cable operators were forced to make drastic changes in the name of survival. Influences at play in the early 1990s were only augmented when Congress passed the Telecommunications Act of 1996‚ allowing “competitive distribution technologies…to
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Chapter-1 Company Profiles before Merger 1.1 British Petroleum Company British Petroleum Company (BP) is a British multinational oil and gas company. It is the third-largest energy company and fourth-largest company in the world. It is vertically integrated and operates in all areas of the oil and gas industry‚ including exploration and production‚ refining‚ distribution and marketing‚ petrochemicals‚ power generation and trading. It also has renewable energy activities in biofuels
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Southwest Airlines 1. Using the five attributes of attitude-behavior correspondence discussed in the chapter‚ explain the linkage between employee attitudes and customer service at Southwest Airlines. The five attributes of attitude-behavior correspondence and their corresponding behavioral effects are: 0 Attitude specificity: specific attitudes have a stronger behavioral effect than general attitudes. 1 Attitude relevance: attitudes pertaining to issues that are personally relevant
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predict. It is always changing and developing. Merger and Acquisition as the action of corporate‚ refers to the aspects of the strategy‚ finance and management of corporate that can help a company to develop rapidly. Merger and acquisition are developing enduring for more than one hundred year. Because of the recession‚ many companies in Europe implement merger and acquisition activities to deal with the economic crisis. In this report‚ take the merger of British Airways and Spain’s national carrier
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Mergers and Joint Ventures Learning Team “D” Rebecca Adams‚ Thomas Elwell‚ Cathy Jones and Christina Najar ECO/365 Principles of Microeconomics September 29‚ 2014 Instructor: Matthew Angner Mergers and Joint Ventures A company does not plan on merging with another company and although some mergers are voluntary other mergers are not. When a company is struggling‚ having financial difficulties and has used up all of its resources sometime it is in the best interest to merge. It is
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Organizational Behavior-740 Case Study: Comparing Leadership Styles- Jack Welch vs Herb Kelleher Marie RevekantVictoria Roberts Tummala Reddy Rushi Patel 4/6/14 Success can be defined by many different parameters‚ but no matter how a company defines it‚ it’s something they want to achieve. In order to help realize success‚ leadership is one essential factor that plays a key role. Having a CEO that can lead the company to the promise land of financial and reputational success is essential. In
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