The British Airways cabin crew union‚ Unite‚ has urged the airline to hold fresh talks to avert strikes which could disrupt thousands of travellers. Members plan to walk out for four separate five-day strikes as part of a bitter dispute over cost-cutting plans. The first strike will begin on 18 May‚ ending on 22 May‚ with further strikes planned on 24 May‚ 30 May and 5 June. But the union said BA could still prevent the walk-outs if it opened what it called "meaningful negotiations".
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Employee Relations Steve Wilson has his hands full managing employee relations. There is always the union issue‚ and Wilson’s belief that “once employee dissent sets in‚ it never goes away” seems to be well founded. He knows there is still an undercurrent for unionization‚ and he fears any cost-cutting will turn the undercurrent into a landslide. Wilson continues to send out the message that KAPA wants to remain non-union and is willing to listen to employees and address their concerns. A comprehensive
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Supporting Good Practice in Managing Employment Relations – A Guidance Leaflet The Impact of Employment Law at the START of the employment relationship 2 Internal Factors which can impact on the employment relationship • Policies & Procedures in place within the organisation – this is an important internal factor that can have an impact on the employment relationship; for example if there is job share/flexible working arrangements in place this can help to promote a work-life balance
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while submitting the assessment and by the faculty when reporting the outcome of the students work) SECTION A: TO BE FILLED BY THE STUDENT Student Name: Ahmed Hafeel Unit No and Name 24.Employee Relations Term : Summer 2013 Assignment Title : Understand the context of employee relations against a changing background Due Date: 30/07/2013 Date Submitted : (if different) 30/07/13 Grading criteria covered within this assignment:
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belief in the values and goals of the organization‚ willing to step up efforts in the interests of the organization and have a strong desire to remain in the organization. Organizations constantly seek ways to increase employee productivity and enhance job performance. Facilitating employee feelings of vitality‚ defined as the subjective feeling of being alive and alert (Ryan and Frederick‚ 1997)‚ may be critical to achieving these ends‚ because employees who are vital feel alive and mentally and physically
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SUBJECT: JetBlue Airways Key strategic issues faced by JetBlue Airways JetBlue Airways was established in USA as a low-cost domestic airline carrier. The company started operating as a point-to-point carrier‚ providing quality customer service at competitive prices. Basically‚ the main strategy of JetBlue is to offer its clients a combination of low fares and product differentiation. In terms of strengthening its market positions‚ the following key strategic issues
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STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT & POLICY COMM 4005 / SP1 MODULE 3 JETBLUE AIRWAYS: A CADRE OF NEW MANAGERS TAKES CONTROL JETBLUE AIRWAYS Question 1 David Neelman’s original strategic vision was to ‘bring humanity back to air travel’ through combing low fares of a discount airline carrier with the comforts of a small cozy den in people’s homes. David’s strategic vision is a good one‚ but the strategic objectives‚ strategy development‚ and implementation and execution should be modified to
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iv. Based on any recent service encounter for an airline of your choosing‚ draw up a flowchart for passenger pre-flight processing (assume the passenger has already purchased a ticket). Can you think of ways to make the process more efficient? More pleasant for the customer? (25 marks) To make sure that the airline service operation is fail-safed‚ efficient and more pleasant for the customers‚ we can apply poka-yokes‚ which is the procedures that prevent mistakes from becoming defects. Firstly
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Masters Program in Business Administration (MBA) Note :- Solve any 4 Case Study All Case Carry equal Marks. CASE I Sunder Singh QUESTIONS 1. What does the purchase of a product like Nike mean to Sunder Singh? Sunder Sing‚ just escaping homelessness is clearly proud that he was able to save and buy a pair of Nikes. He could undoubtedly have purchase a different brand that would have met his physical needs as well for much less money which he does not say why he bought the more
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Abstract In the case study‚ The British Airways Swipe Card Debacle‚ British Airways (BA) introduced ‘a system for electronic clocking in that would record when they [employees] started and finished work for the day… which was a unilateral decision by BA to introduce the swipe card‚ and a lack of adequate consultation with affected staff” (Palmer‚ Dunford‚ Akin‚ 2009‚ pp. 239 & 240). As a result‚ the BA staff held a twenty-four hour wildcat strike which caused BA to cancel its services‚ leaving
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