Case Study: QANTAS (Jetstar Pacific) Qantas Airline is considered to provide the longest distance travel in the world’s leading aviation. Qantas works alongside Jetstar‚ which is known as the lowest domestic and international fare provider in Australia and Singapore (Qantas Airways Limited 2013). Qantas has expanded its operations internationally to Vietnam through Jetstar Pacific by the joint venture strategic alliance (Trade Dealer 2012). In this case study it is essential to understand firstly
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A plan for the business report(Qantas) Introduction * Purpose of the report—give suggestions to my client who is interested in ethical investing by analyzing and evaluating the ethical and financial issues. * Definition of ethical investing. (source: http://www.ethicalinvesting.com/) * Brief description and general information about Qantas. (source: Qantas’ official website) * History(development) * Business * Corporate Governance * Outline the report’s
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Student name: W. Amal Peiris Student number: U1031128 MGT5000 INTRODUCTION Qantas faced the crisis in 2011. However it has commenced in 1990 when it was deregulated the government through privatization. Culture of Qantas remained unchanged and it operated as a government organization. Since Qantas was a government owned organization its cost base was not competitive compared to other Airlines. Qantas responded with low-cost Jetstar and just like Virgin Airways‚ the latter also moved into
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1. If Qantas Frequent Flyer wanted to understand what their competitors were doing‚ what types of secondary research should they conduct? There are mainly two types of secondary research :‚ * data that came from the firm itself which is known as internal secondary data * data that has been published by other organization which is also known as external secondary data. The easiest way that Qantas can understand what their competitors were doing is by searching through data on the internet
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1. Explain the strategies that Qantas and other businesses can use to control cash flow Cash flow is the measure of money flowing in and out of your business at any given time. In an ideal business cycle‚ you will always have more cash flowing in than flowing out. The reality is however‚ that most businesses have to produce or deliver goods/services to their customers while also paying their staff and suppliers before they get paid themselves. The task of managing cash flow is increased in complexity
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Describe the SWOT analysis and the VRIO model and compare them. Highlight their main similarities and differences. (25 points) (A 1½-page response is required.) Student’s Response The SWOT analysis is used to describe the Strength‚ Weaknesses‚ Opportunities and Threats that face a corporation. The purpose of this analysis is to identify the particular competencies that the corporation has as well as to identify the opportunities that they are facing but unable to take advantage of due to the
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Content Executive summary 1. 0 Business operation of REX 1.1 Nature of revenue sources 1.2Conduct of operation 1.3 Products and services 1.4 Market conditions and competition 1.5 Regulatory environment 2.0 PEST analysis 2.1 Political 2.2 Economics 2.3 Social 2.4 Technical 3.0 Audit risks 3.1 Measurement risk of aircraft 3.2 Revenue manipulate risk 3.3 Derivative financial instruments risk 3.4 Employee benefit risk 4.0 Internal control Reference Executive summary
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Distinctive Competencies The VRIO analysis is helpful in determining if a resource or capability leads to competitive advantage (Middleton‚ 2004). Resources/Capabilities Valuable? Rare? Costly to Imitate? Exploited by Organization Competitive Implications Strength or Weakness Key Account Management Initiative Yes Yes Yes Yes Sustained Competitive Advantage Strength and Sustainable Distinctive Competence Recruitment Process Yes Yes No No Temporary Competitive Advantage Strength and Distinctive
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audience comments attached to three news articles on the 2011 Qantas grounding crisis. Using Weiner’s Attribution Theory (1986‚ 1995) and the qualitative content analysis software; Leximancer‚ we used these comments to deconstruct audience perceptions of the Qantas crisis and isolate different emotional‚ attitudinal and behavioural responses. Our first major finding indicated that the majority of audience members attributed the cause of the Qantas crisis to managerial decisions or union action. Working
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styles and workplace dispute. With Qantas as an example to understand these strategies properly. Human resources management strategies of Qantas Airlines can involve: Workplace dispute: is a disagreement over an issue or group of issues between an employer and its employees‚ which result in employees ceasing work. Qantas has had a series of disputes with Transport workers unions since the end of 2010 till the start of 2012. It started off with Unions and Qantas bargaining to start new enterprise
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